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

Journal: Science bulletin
Published Date: Sep 13, 2022

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).

Authors

  • Qinghua Lai
    College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie WY 82071, USA.
  • Tianyi Cai
    School of Energy and Power Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer in Power Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.
  • Shik Chi Edman Tsang
    Wolfson Catalysis, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QR, UK.
  • Xia Chen
    Tianjin Eye Hospital, 4 Gansu Road, Tianjin, 300020, China.
  • Runping Ye
    State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China.
  • Zhenghe Xu
    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China; Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada.
  • Morris D Argyle
    Department of Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo UT 84602, USA.
  • Dong Ding
    Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430030, China.
  • Yongmei Chen
    College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
  • Jianji Wang
  • Armistead G Russell
    School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332, USA.
  • Ye Wu
    Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
  • Jian Liu
    Department of Rheumatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, Anhui, China.
  • Maohong Fan
    College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie WY 82071, USA; School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332, USA. Electronic address: mfan@uwyo.edu.

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