Climate-friendly electricity from ammonia

Electricity and heat are generated in a single compact system — without CO2 emissions or other harmful byproducts.

05-Nov-2024 - Using hydrogen to generate electricity does not cause any climate-damaging emissions. But storing and transporting the gas pose technical challenges. With this in mind, Fraunhofer researchers use ammonia, a hydrogen derivative that is easier to handle, as a starting material. Ammonia is cracked ...

New Insights into Ammonia Decomposition

How to make hydrogen transportable

10-Oct-2024 - Using ammonia is regarded as a promising method of transporting hydrogen. However, an efficient process is also needed to convert it back into hydrogen and nitrogen. An international research team has gained new insights into the mode of operation of an iron catalyst that can be used to split ...

Evonik is driving forward the green transformation with electrodialysis

Electrochemical process converts salts into valuable raw materials

24-Sep-2024 - Evonik is researching to make electrodialysis available on an industrial scale for the green transformation of the chemical industry. Scientists anticipate improved access to key raw materials on a circular basis and simpler and more efficient processes that require fewer raw materials. With the ...

Rice-built reactor yields green ammonia and purified water

New reactor system could decarbonize ammonia production, treat nitrate-contaminated water

20-Aug-2024 - Ammonia plays a critical role in sustaining food production for the world’s growing population, but making it accounts for about 2%of global energy consumption and 1.4% of carbon dioxide emissions. Rice University engineers have developed a revolutionary reactor design that could decarbonize ...

Effective new catalyst brings hope for cleaner energy, wastewater treatment, and green chemistry

A catalyst that significantly enhances ammonia conversion could improve wastewater treatment, green chemical and hydrogen production

12-Aug-2024 - A team of scientists have developed an effective catalyst with a remarkable ability to enhance the efficiency of ammonia conversion. The study reveals the catalyst's potential to significantly advance wastewater treatment, green nitrite and nitrate, as well as hydrogen production. Catalysts are ...

Engineers develop general, high-speed technology to model, understand catalytic reactions

08-Aug-2024 - Researchers have been studying the industrial production of ammonia for a century. But they’ve struggled to find ways to improve the low-yield, low-efficiency process. Atmospheric nitrogen, with the aid of an iron catalyst, reacts with hydrogen to produce ammonia. That reaction produces lots of ...

Producing Hydrogen and Fertilizer at The Same Time

This new concept could allow the needs of previously separate industries to be combined

17-Jul-2024 - A research team from the University Alliance Ruhr, Germany, has found a catalyst that can be used to convert ammonia into the energy carrier hydrogen and the fertilizer precursor nitrite. The production of hydrogen and the production of fertilizer have so far been separate chemical processes. ...

Light green hydrogen will do

“It would be counterproductive to aim for complete decarbonisation, as the excessive costs could slow down the energy transition”

04-Jul-2024 - Whether sustainably produced hydrogen needs to be 100 percent green is currently under debate. Using the production of ammonia and artificial fertiliser as examples, researchers have calculated that "nearly sustainable" hydrogen would be better in the end. There’s a role for sustainably produced ...

ASOTO and CATALSYS Form Strategic Joint Venture to Provide Revolutionary Green Energy Solutions for AI Data Centers

Partnership marks a significant milestone in the pursuit of green ammonia power generation solutions

23-May-2024 - ASOTO OÜ andCATALSYS Limited are thrilled to announce a strategic joint venture aimed at transforming the European data-center industry through innovative green-energy solutions. This partnership combines ASOTO's expertise in off-grid power generation with CATALSYS's pioneering ammonia-cracking ...

thyssenkrupp Uhde and Johnson Matthey join forces to offer an integrated solution for blue ammonia technology

Demand for ammonia is growing because it’s easier to store and transport than pure hydrogen and is key to decarbonising the world’s power, shipping, and industrial processes

22-May-2024 - thyssenkrupp Uhde and Johnson Matthey (JM) announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly offer a fully integrated low carbon (blue) ammonia solution, building on a nearly 25-year ammonia relationship between the companies. In the drive to reduce CO2 emissions, the role of ...