Hi,
Learnt that my Diesel car is equipped with a DEF/AdBlue circuit to reduce the NOx emission.
That product is water with artificial urea.
To create artificial urea, industry needs to know the molecule definition.
So, chemists start from some organic samples but these samples are different, with various compositions, various oxidation levels…
How do chemists proceed to reduce the organic urea to a definition of a pure urea molecule ?
(I guess the process is more or less the same for every “reduction”)
Thanks !
In: Chemistry
You do not need any organic sources at all.
You can synthesize urea in large scale facilities from just carbon dioxide and ammonia (which you can make from hydrogen and nitrogen). You just need high pressures and temperatures and enough energy for the reactions.
So your urea plant, basically just needs air, water and natural gas as inlet and you get urea as output.
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