Better Air-quality, Free Energy, Environmental Sustainability and Higher Animal Productivity; Four Birds with One Stone

空气污染是英国对人类健康的最大环境风险，也是继癌症、心脏病和肥胖症之后对公众健康的第四大威胁。与其他空气污染物不同，自2013年以来，英国的氨排放量一直在上升，对生物多样性、人类和牲畜健康以及环境产生了重大影响。一旦氨与大气中的其他气体混合，它会形成对肺部和心脏有重大健康问题的颗粒物（PM）。2017年农业排放了约244900吨氨。政府的目标是到2030年将氨的排放量与2005年的基准相比减少16%，到2030年将PM排放量减少46%。这个多学科的双大学项目提案旨在开发一种用于氨电氧化（AEO）的创新和多功能电化学燃料电池，该电池既有利于消除氨又有利于发电。制作的燃料电池将进行电化学测试，显微镜和光谱，其效率将提高使用模拟模型。该电池将在真实的农场进行氨缓解测试。这种新型设备采用了该项目中开发的最先进的合成催化剂地球丰富的材料来生产燃料电池，可以帮助在畜牧业中实现净零农业。

Air pollution is the top environmental risk to human health in the UK, and the fourth greatest threat to public health after cancer, heart disease and obesity. Unlike other air pollutants, ammonia emissions in the UK have been rising since 2013, with significant implications for biodiversity, human and livestock health, and environment. Once ammonia mixes with other gases in the atmosphere, it can form particulate matter (PM) with major health concerns to the lungs and heart.Agriculture emitted around 244900 tonnes ammonia in 2017. The government`s aim is to reduce emissions of ammonia against the 2005 baseline by 16% by 2030 and to reduce PM emissions by 46% by 2030.This multidisciplinary bi-university project proposal aims to develop an innovative and versatile electrochemical fuel cell for ammonia electro-oxidation (AEO) that benefits eliminating ammonia as well as generating electricity. The fabricated fuel cell will be tested electrochemically, microscopically and spectroscopically and its efficiency will be improved using simulating models. The cell will be tested in a real farm for ammonia mitigation. This novel device employs state-of-the-art synthesized catalyst earth-abundant material developed in this project to produce a fuel cell that can aid in the delivery of Net Zero Agriculture in the livestock sector.