User:Pschiele/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Ammonia production

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Because I believe ammonia production is one of the technological breakthroughs of the 20th century that rapidly propelled humanity to where it presently resides because of its role in agriculture as a prominent fertilizer and will continue to fuel the rapid rate at which the human race as a whole develops. It is important because it is a compound we currently rely on and will continue to rely on for the foreseeable future unless a major agricultural breakthrough is reached. My preliminary impression was that the article was very involved and concerned with the scientific details and industrial components of the production process.

(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

Evaluate the article
Overall the article is of a high quality with good use of reputable sources. It does a good job of staying on topic with no hints at bias and giving a thorough overview of the different processes for producing ammonia on an industrial scale. I would say overall there is not much to improve, however, I believe that the "Sustainable Production" could be bisected into two different sections. I would propose these sections be entitled, environmental impacts and Sustainability, so as to clearly draw a boundary between the environmental drawbacks to the process and how they might be addressed in the sustainability section, contained within these I would include non-copyright imagery to further enhance the understanding of impacts. I also believe that a look into the the current literature for any alternatives to the Haber-Bosch process have come to fruition and add those findings into the article as the article has not seen much activity or editions since it's conception in the mid 2000s, though if one dives into the reference section, there are an abundance of articles. However I believe the addition of more studies would enhance the credibility of the article. Furthermore, I believe that some of the writing could be revised to have a better "flow." Overall I believe the article falls under the C-class category and it is of interest to the Chemical and Bio Engineering, Citizendium Porting, and Chemicals WikiProjects.