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Commitments and Contingencies (Details 2) (USD $)	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Environmental Health and Safety Matters
Long-term commitments
Expenses related to environmental, health and safety (EHS) matters	$ 200,000us-gaap_EnvironmentalCostsRecognizedCapitalizedInPeriod / us-gaap_LossContingenciesByNatureOfContingencyAxis = uan_EnvironmentalHealthAndSafetyMattersMember	$ 57,000us-gaap_EnvironmentalCostsRecognizedCapitalizedInPeriod / us-gaap_LossContingenciesByNatureOfContingencyAxis = uan_EnvironmentalHealthAndSafetyMattersMember
HollyFrontier Corporation
Long-term commitments
Expenses related to agreement	1,300,000uan_LongTermPurchaseCommitmentExpenses / us-gaap_TypeOfArrangementAxis = uan_HollyFrontierCorporationMember	1,300,000uan_LongTermPurchaseCommitmentExpenses / us-gaap_TypeOfArrangementAxis = uan_HollyFrontierCorporationMember
Material | Linde, Inc. | CRNF
Long-term commitments
Expenses related to agreement	$ 800,000uan_LongTermPurchaseCommitmentExpenses / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_SubsidiariesMember / us-gaap_LongTermPurchaseCommitmentByCategoryOfItemPurchasedAxis = us-gaap_InventoriesMember / us-gaap_TypeOfArrangementAxis = uan_LindeIncMember	$ 1,000,000uan_LongTermPurchaseCommitmentExpenses / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_SubsidiariesMember / us-gaap_LongTermPurchaseCommitmentByCategoryOfItemPurchasedAxis = us-gaap_InventoriesMember / us-gaap_TypeOfArrangementAxis = uan_LindeIncMember

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 410

-SubTopic 30

-Section 25

-Paragraph 18

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=39739230&loc=d3e11660-110855

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