Tennessee Valley Authority

Auburn University

Joe Gautney

John F McCullough

Yong K Kim

John J Kohler

Shelby Davis Worley

Doris H Ash

The invention described herein comprises two principal embodiments. The first embodiment comprises operating procedures related to the instant invention which along with urease inhibition test results demonstrate the use of two classes of N-Halamine compounds (N,N'-DIHALO-2-IMIDAZOLIDINONES and N-HALO-2-OXAZOLIDINONES) as inhibitors of the activity of the enzyme urease in solution and agricultural soil systems. The second embodiment comprises operating procedures related to the instant invention which along with nitrification inhibition test results demonstrate the use of the two classes of N-Halamine compounds (N,N'-DIHALO-2-IMIDAZOLIDINONES and N-HALO-2-OXAZOLIDINONES) as inhibitors of nitrification in agricultural soil systems.

N,N-dihalo-2-imidazolidinones and N-halo-2-oxazolidinones as urease and

The herein described practice and operating procedures relating to the instant invention have demonstrated the utility and economic advantages of slightly acidic, neutral, and slightly basic fluid fertilizer solutions containing urea and the urease inhibitor thiophosphoryl triamide in preventing or at least substantially reducing the loss of ammoniacal nitrogen from soils to which such fluid fertilizers are often surface applied. The results of said testing procedures also demonstrate a new, novel, and heretofore unknown method of utilizing said thiophosphoryl triamide in conjunction with urea which method circumvents the problem usually encountered in the practice of prior art processes of rapid inhibitor decomposition in solid mixtures with urea.

Fluid fertilizers containing thiophosphoryl triamide

A process for the removal and recovery of sulfur oxides from gas streams by contacting the gas stream with an aqueous suspension of melamine whereupon a mixture of solid, hydrated melamine sulfites, hydrated melamine sulfate is formed. The solids are separated from the reaction product and the clarified liquid recycled. The solids are then heated to temperatures up to 200.degree. C. to decompose the hydrated melamine sulfites into free melamine, gaseous water, and sulfur dioxide, and the gaseous water and sulfur dioxide withdrawn as product. The hot solids are cooled and split into two portions. One portion is recycled and the other portion is treated with a base stronger than melamine to decompose the contained melamine sulfate into free melamine and a basic sulfate salt solution. The basic sulfate salt solution is separated from the melamine and withdrawn as product and the melamine is recycled to the process.

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