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Production of ammonium nitrate with nanoporous structure: the influence of technological parameters on quality of granules

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Current paper is devoted to the study of formation process of a nanoporous structure in porous ammonium nitrate granules during their humidification and heat treatment in vortex devices. We briefly present the main methods for porous ammonium nitrate granules formation. We demonstrate that it is necessary to control the process of nanoporous structure formation by varying different technological parameters. We present a brief description of a method for producing porous ammonium nitrate granules with nanoporous structure in vortex granulators based on ordinary ammonium nitrate granules. The nanoporous structure of porous ammonium nitrate granules is investigated under various technological parameters of the modification process. We provide porous ammonium nitrate quality indicators and propose optimal parameters for its production.

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This research work had been supported by the Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine under the project “Technological bases of multistage convective drying in small-sized devices with utilization and heat recovery units,” project No. 0120U100476, by the Cultural and Educational Grant Agency of the Slovak Republic (KEGA), project No. 003TnUAD-4/2022.

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  1. Department of Marketing, Sumy State University, Rymskogo-Korsakova str.,2, Sumy, Ukraine

    Artem Artyukhov

  2. Department of Applied Mathematics and Complex Systems Modeling, Sumy State University, Rymskogo-Korsakova str., 2, Sumy, Ukraine

    Iurii Volk

  3. Department of Numerical Methods and Computational Modeling, Alexander Dubcek University of Trencin, I. Krasku str, 491/30, Puchov, Slovak Republic

    Jan Krmela

  4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University, Dvoryanskaya str., 2, Odesa, Ukraine

    Aleksandr Chernenko

  5. Department of Transport Equipment and Technology, Saken Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University, Zhenis avenue, 62, Nur-Sultan, Republic of Kazakhstan

    Dastan Ospanov

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Artyukhov, A., Volk, I., Krmela, J. et al. Production of ammonium nitrate with nanoporous structure: the influence of technological parameters on quality of granules. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 121, 1697–1706 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-022-09449-w

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