Chemical looping based ammonia production—A promising pathway for production of the noncarbon fuel

Qinghua Lai; Tianyi Cai; Shik Chi Edman Tsang; Xia Chen; Runping Ye; Zhenghe Xu; Morris D. Argyle; Dong Ding; Yongmei Chen; Jianji Wang; Armistead G. Russell; Ye Wu; Jian Liu; Maohong Fan

doi:10.1016/j.scib.2022.09.013

Chemical looping based ammonia production—A promising pathway for production of the noncarbon fuel

Qinghua Lai
, Tianyi Cai
, Shik Chi Edman Tsang
, Xia Chen
, Runping Ye
, Zhenghe Xu
, Morris D. Argyle
, Dong Ding
, Yongmei Chen
, Jianji Wang
, Armistead G. Russell
, Ye Wu
, Jian Liu
, Maohong Fan

Integrated Energy Technologies

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Abstract

Ammonia, primarily made with Haber-Bosch process developed in 1909 and winning two Nobel prizes, is a promising noncarbon fuel for preventing global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. However, the undesired characteristics of the process, including high carbon footprint, necessitate alternative ammonia synthesis methods, and among them is chemical looping ammonia production (CLAP) that uses nitrogen carrier materials and operates at atmospheric pressure with high product selectivity and energy efficiency. To date, neither a systematic review nor a perspective in nitrogen carriers and CLAP has been reported in the critical area. Thus, this work not only assesses the previous results of CLAP but also provides perspectives towards the future of CLAP. It classifies, characterizes, and holistically analyzes the fundamentally different CLAP pathways and discusses the ways of further improving the CLAP performance with the assistance of plasma technology and artificial intelligence (AI).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2124-2138
Number of pages	15
Journal	Science Bulletin
Volume	67
Issue number	20
Early online date	Sep 13 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2022.09.013
State	Published - Oct 31 2022

Keywords

Ammonia synthesis
Chemical looping
Energy carrier
Nitrogen carrier
Renewable fuels

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140591

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