RestartNH3 - Energy functional processes and materials for storage of renewable energy in ammonia

RestartNH3 - 用于氨中储存可再生能源的能源功能工艺和材料

基本信息

批准号：
EP/X031683/1
负责人：
Laura Torrente Murciano
金额：
$ 221.26万
依托单位：
University of Cambridge
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2023 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX031683%2F1
关键词：
RestartNH3 Energy functional processes materials

项目摘要

When Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber received their Nobel prize for the discovery of the artificial nitrogen fixation process (the Haber-Bosch process), they acknowledged that there might be other ways of producing ammonia. Over a century later, we are still using the same fossil fuel-dependent process and a very similar catalyst. Now, the time has arrived to restart the role of ammonia beyond feeding over 50 % of the population as fertiliser. In a carbon-free society, ammonia (with a high energy density and a well-established transport infrastructure) is anticipated to be the lynchpin for the long-term storage of renewable energy to align its production with our energy demands. RestartNH3 will provide a ground-breaking recycle-less ammonia synthesis process, driven exclusively by renewable energy, water and air. Its fundamental pillars will be the development of energy functional nano-materials as low temperature ammonia catalysts and high temperature absorbents. Innovative technological advances will build on these revolutionary capabilities through the pioneering integration of the reaction and separation steps into a recycle-less process as well as a self-sustained, energy-efficient regeneration of absorbents via a unique heat integration strategy. RestartNH3 will deliver an agile (fast response), efficient (high energy storage), distributed (low capital versus the economy of scale of the conventional Haber Bosch process) ammonia synthesis process aligned to the intermittent and geographically isolated production of renewable energy. As a result, we will be able to store renewable energy in their production points, to be stored long-term and transported in the form of ammonia. Such a process has the potential to create a new global carbon-free energy trade system similar to the existing one around fossil fuels, essential to fulfil our carbon-free ambitions and contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

当卡尔·博世（Carl Bosch）和弗里茨·哈伯（Fritz Haber）因发现人工氮固定过程（Haber-Bosch过程）而获得诺贝尔奖时，他们承认可能还有其他生产氨的方法。一个多世纪后，我们仍在使用相同的化石燃料依赖性过程和非常相似的催化剂。现在，现在是时候重新启动氨的作用，而不仅仅是以上50％的人口作为肥料。在一个无碳社会中，预计氨（具有高能量密度和建立良好的运输基础设施）将是长期存储可再生能源以使其生产与我们的能源需求保持一致的Lynchpin。 RESTARTNH3将提供一个突破性的无回收氨合成过程，仅由可再生能源，水和空气驱动。它的基本支柱将是低温氨催化剂和高温吸收剂的能量功能性纳米材料的发展。创新的技术进步将通过将反应和分离步骤的开创性整合到无回收的过程以及通过独特的热量整合策略的自我维持，能节能的吸收器再生中，以这些革命性的能力为基础。 RESTARTNH3将提供敏捷（快速响应），有效的（高能量存储），分布式（低资本与传统Haber Bosch工艺规模的经济性）氨合成过程，该过程与间歇性和地理分离的可再生能源的生产一致。结果，我们将能够将可再生能源存储在其生产点，以长期存储并以氨的形式运输。这样的过程有可能创建一种与化石燃料周围现有的新型无碳能源贸易系统相似的，这对于实现我们的无碳野心至关重要，并为联合国可持续发展目标做出了贡献。