From fertilizer to energy source of the future

Ammonia: Bright Prospects

04-Jul-2025 - Ammonia has been traditionally known for fertilizer production. In the future, it could also play a key role in the Energy Transition as an efficient source of hydrogen and a climate-friendly substitute for fossil fuels since it can be produced from nitrogen and hydrogen with zero carbon ...

How urea forms spontaneously

New reaction discovered: Potential for sustainable and low-energy urea synthesis

02-Jul-2025 - Urea is considered a possible key molecule in the origin of life. ETH researchers have discovered a previously unknown way in which this building block can form spontaneously on aqueous surfaces without the need for any additional energy. Urea is one of the most important industrial chemicals ...

New Prospects for Green Ammonia

Study provides a blueprint for load-flexible production plant – and lower costs

04-Jun-2025 - Converting ammonia production to a low-emission process is one of the major challenges in the fight against climate change. Ammonia, one of the most widely produced chemicals worldwide, is essential for the fertilizer industry and, in turn, the production of plant-based foods. However, its ...

hte and Heraeus Precious Metals collaborate on catalytic ammonia cracking

22-May-2025 - hte and precious metals specialist Heraeus Precious Metals signed a R&D service agreement. The main focus of this collaboration is the screening of different materials for catalytic ammonia cracking in order to obtain hydrogen. As part of this screening project, a cutting-edge, state-of-the-art ...

Hy2gen reaches milestone for ammonia project in Canada

Hy2gen's COURANT project was awarded the contract last year for a capacity of 307 MW to produce 230,000 tons of renewable ammonia per year.

25-Mar-2025 - Hy2gen Canada Inc., the Canadian subsidiary of global renewable hydrogen producer Hy2gen, has submitted the project notification for the COURANT project, a renewable ammonia production facility, to Quebec's Minister of the Environment. This milestone marks the end of the planning phase. As a next ...

Taking a cue from lightning, eco-friendly reactor converts air and water into ammonia

Without any carbon footprint

27-Dec-2024 - There’s a good chance you owe your existence to the Haber-Bosch process. This industrial chemical reaction between hydrogen and nitrogen produces ammonia, the key ingredient to synthetic fertilizers that supply much of the world’s food supply and enabled the population explosion of the last ...

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 ...