Urea Based Specialty Fertilizer Robert Smulders Vice President Innovation
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Urea Based Specialty FertilizerRobert Smulders
Vice President Innovation
The Global Challenge
Need for Better Fertilizers
Stamicarbon’s Solution
Agenda
New Beginnings: Return to Growth
The challenge
By 2050we will have
2 billionnew mouths to feed
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The challenge
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The challenge
• Population growing with 34% towards 2050
• Cereal demand increasing with 43% towards 2050
• A main driver for increasing cereal demand is
economic development
– Decrease of hunger
(today almost 1 billion hungry people)
– Increasing meat consumption
(conversion rate ca. 3 kg grain/kg meat)
FAO FOOD OUTLOOK 2050
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Urea: world's most important fertilizer
• Nearly 60% of global nitrogen fertilizer is applied as urea
• Urea is not the most efficient fertilizer since less than
50% is taken up by the plant; the rest is lost
– to air by volatilization, and
– to surface- and ground water by run-off and leaching
Urea
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Environmental issues are on the rise …
By 2050we will have
More than 50% of the
Chinese surface waters are dangerously contaminated
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Planetary boundaries are under pressure ...
Planetary Boundaries, Stockholm Resilience Center, 2009
“We have already crossed
"planetary boundaries" that
could lead to abrupt/irreversible
environmental changes”
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What needs to happen?
Increase global
productivity
Decrease
environmental
pressure
Improve nutrient
(nitrogen) use
efficiency
Respect
planetary
boundaries
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Fertilizer Paradox: Largest Agri Business, Lowest R&D Investment
The largest and most
important input in global
agriculture gets the least
R&D investment!!
Global fertilizer market =
~300 billion USD =
>60% of total agri-business
PURSELL AGRI-TECH CONFIDENTIAL
Fertilizer Development 1900 - 2050
population
Mind the Gap
Ammonia
1909 BASF Urea
1922 BASF
MOP
1931 Carlsbad, NM
DAP
1959 TVA/IFDC
year
No new fertilizer
product development
Lack of fertilizer product development ...
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The "Ideal Fertilizer"
Nutrient release is being
synchronized with the crop’s
nutrient requirements (Adapted from Lammel, 2005)
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Controlled Release Urea
NEW POLYMER
COATED UREA 2.0
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Partnership development
Technology
DevelopmentMarket
Development
+
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Targeted Market Segment
Commodity cash crops:
corn and wheat
Medium value added
cash crops
High
value
added
cash
crops
• Meeting future legislation
• Commodity cash crops
• Preventing seed kill
• Single application
• Safe high dosage
• Broad acreage
• Till and no-till
• Higher yield
• Low losses
• In-the-row
PCU 2.0
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Modular design for coating facilities
Features:
• Semi-continuous operations
• 100 - 200 kt/annum capacity
• Close to end-user market
• Using existing logistics facilities
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Future developments
Open Innovation Platform for Fertilizer Industry:
• Biodegradable coatings (prerequisite for EU)
• Incorporation of micro-nutrients and biologicals
• Incorporation of inhibitors (both urease and nitrification)
• Developing Seed-Core technology for micro-nutrients, biologicals and
inhibitors
• …
Thank youwww.gpca.org.ae
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