New ammonia manufacturing process could lead to significantly less pollution

[AshG]

Green ammonia electrolysis breakthrough could finally kill Haber-Bosch

Current ammonia manufacturing processes account for almost 2% of global carbon emissions and significant use of natural gas. A new electrolysis based system replaces the high heat and pressure requirements with a near room-temperature method for producing ammonia.

 

[hog88]

That's great, I'm all for "green innovations" like this.

 

[OrangeTsar]

Great news. I always get a chuckle though when I see new stories using the term “pollution” nowadays. Wish I could take some of the reporters back to a stagnant day in Chattanooga in the 1960s

 

[Orangeburst]

Green ammonia electrolysis breakthrough could finally kill Haber-Bosch

Current ammonia manufacturing processes account for almost 2% of global carbon emissions and significant use of natural gas. A new electrolysis based system replaces the high heat and pressure requirements with a near room-temperature method for producing ammonia.

Ammoia was used at several TVA fossil plants in a process that reduced emissions. They spent hundreds of millions.
Edit Not that this is related to this article after I read it..lol

 

[AshG]

Great news. I always get a chuckle though when I see new stories using the term “pollution” nowadays. Wish I could take some of the reporters back to a stagnant day in Chattanooga in the 1960s

When I proposed to my wife on the Walnut Street Bridge in July of 2002, we had just finished watching the beautiful rainbows made of dumped chemicals and oil floating by on the river below us.

 

[SlipKidVol]

When I proposed to my wife on the Walnut Street Bridge in July of 2002, we had just finished watching the beautiful rainbows made of dumped chemicals and oil floating by on the river below us.

you should have been on that bridge in bumper to bumper traffic before they closed it.

 

[OrangeTsar]

When I proposed to my wife on the Walnut Street Bridge in July of 2002, we had just finished watching the beautiful rainbows made of dumped chemicals and oil floating by on the river below us.

Awesome place. I remember being terrified whenever my dad actually DROVE us over that thing back in the day. Way too narrow

 

[Wireless1]

Green ammonia electrolysis breakthrough could finally kill Haber-Bosch

Current ammonia manufacturing processes account for almost 2% of global carbon emissions and significant use of natural gas. A new electrolysis based system replaces the high heat and pressure requirements with a near room-temperature method for producing ammonia.

Sounds like it could reduce CO emissions, but doesn't detail the waste stream and it's disposal or the amount of electricity required versus the current process.... or how much lithium is consumed in the process.

 

[hog88]

Sounds like it could reduce CO emissions, but doesn't detail the waste stream and it's disposal or the amount of electricity required versus the current process.... or how much lithium is consumed in the process.

All great questions.

 

[MG1968]

All great questions.

That will get answered around the time EV zealots answer questions regarding battery production, power grid issues and disposal/recycling of EOL batteries.

 

[Vol8188]

Green ammonia electrolysis breakthrough could finally kill Haber-Bosch

Current ammonia manufacturing processes account for almost 2% of global carbon emissions and significant use of natural gas. A new electrolysis based system replaces the high heat and pressure requirements with a near room-temperature method for producing ammonia.

This isn’t possible. I’ve been told the only way to reduce pollution is to set up a global carbon tax system and live in abject poverty by eliminating fossil fuels and relying on the power of the wind

 

[StarRaider]

Great news. I always get a chuckle though when I see new stories using the term “pollution” nowadays. Wish I could take some of the reporters back to a stagnant day in Chattanooga in the 1960s

crossing over Missionary Ridge from Brainerd.... oh my gawd what is that smell (actually smelled just like Gary Indiana).

 

[OrangeTsar]

crossing over Missionary Ridge from Brainerd.... oh my gawd what is that smell (actually smelled just like Gary Indiana).

Probably the smell of the burnt phenolic resins mixed with the casting sand for the molds at US Pipe and Wheland Foundaries. Those would really get trapped in the bowl between Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain