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                                                         Exhibit 24.1
  
                          GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY
  
  
       KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, each person whose signature appears
  below hereby authorizes, constitutes and appoints Dennis L. Yakobson and
  Ronald C. Butz, and each of them, his true and lawful
  attorney-in-fact and agents with full power of substitution and
  resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all
  capacities, to sign this Registration Statement for the registration
  under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of Common Stock of Rentech,
  Inc. and any and all pre-effective and post-effective amendments to this
  Registration Statement, together with any and all exhibits thereto and
  other documents required to be filed with respect hereto and thereto and
  to file the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission and any
  other regulatory, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents and
  each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every
  act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the
  premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in
  person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
  attorneys-in-fact and agents or each of them, or their or his substitute
  or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof and
  incorporate such changes as any of the said attorneys-in-fact deems
  appropriate.
  
       Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
  Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
  capacities and on the dates indicated.
  
  Signature               Title                          Date
  
  
  
  (signature)
  --------------------    President, Chief Executive     February 3, 1998
  Dennis L. Yakobson      Officer and Director
  
  
  
  (signature)
  --------------------    Vice President, Chief          February 3, 1998
  Ronald C. Butz          Operating Officer, Secretary
                          and Director
  
  
  
  (signature)
  --------------------    Director                       February 3, 1998
  Mark S. Bohn
  
  
  
  (signature)
  --------------------     Director                      February 3, 1998
  Erich W. Tiepel
  
  
  
  (signature)
  --------------------     Vice President - Finance,     February 3, 1998
  James P. Samuels         Chief Financial Officer