Clean Ammonia Production

Process Detail

Process Description

One of the most pressing concerns with hydrogen fuel is hydrogen transportation and storage. To address this issue, we propose a scalable mWave plasma-catalyst-assisted pilot plant for medium to large-scale ammonia production from steam, air, and renewable electricity.

The main advantage of this technology over the conventional Haber-Bosch process is that it operates at atmospheric pressure, and a nitrogen mWave plasma torch is used to split steam in the reactor and produces hydrogen, which reduces the intermediate Nitric Oxides (NO) in the presence of a catalyst.

Main Features

Carbon free process with no carbon capture technology required.
Atmospheric process condition.
Air, steam, and renewable electricity are only involved.
Carbon negative process is achievable through the urea production process.
Reliable operation due to electrodeless plasma system.

More Details

The future fuel hydrogen market is predicted to reach over $1.4 trillion in 2050. To support the emerging hydrogen economy, ammonia is a key element as it is the safest hydrogen carrier, clean energy, and can be directly converted into hydrogen through our innovative technology. Ammonia market is predicted to sharply increase, reaching more than 110 billion in 2028.

The presence of Ammonia will tackle major issues of the hydrogen economy, from the equipment failure, storage and transportation to the high cost of production. As the highest storage of the hydrogen, Ammonia has low fire hazard.

Being present for more than a century, Haber Bosch (HB) process is the main process that industries use till today in commercial scale. The process emits CO2, involving high pressure and temperature. Thus, it is only economics for large scales (more than 1500 tons per day).

In contrast with HB process, our process uses nitrogen microwave plasma torch to split water molecules into hydrogen at atmospheric condition. The generated hydrogen reduces the intermediate Nitric Oxides (NO) in the presence of a catalyst. The microwave system is electrodeless and its power source is a solid-state amplifier (SSPA).

The negative carbon emission will be achieved by producing urea as the final product. The process will use less energy than other methods of clean ammonia production (such as SOEC and alkaline electrolyzer).

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