Nearly a century ago, German chemist Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a process to generate ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen gases. The process, still in use today, ushered in a ...

Ammonia is commonly used in fertilizer because it has the highest nitrogen content of commercial fertilizers, making it essential for crop production. However, two carbon dioxide molecules are made ...

We here on Earth live at the bottom of an ocean of nitrogen. Nearly 80% of every breath we take is nitrogen, and the element is a vital component of the building blocks of life. Nitrogen is critical ...

Making ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen via the Haber-Bosch process has been critical to fertilizing the world’s crops for more than a century, but there’s been little need to run the reaction in ...

Ammonia plays a critical role in food production and industrial development, with a global market size of approximately 175 million metric tons and a market value of $67 billion. Likewise, it is a ...

HOUSTON – (May 2, 2022) – A dash of ruthenium atoms on a mesh of copper nanowires could be one step toward a revolution in the global ammonia industry that also helps the environment. Collaborators at ...

In the March issue of Nature Synthesis, chemistry professor Paul Chirik’s lab published a groundbreaking paper reporting photocatalytic, room-temperature synthesis of ammonia. The work, he told The ...

Driving the Transition to Sustainable Ammonia Production through Advanced Techno-Economic Analysis The global energy transition and the urgent need to decarbonize the chemicals industry have brought ...

SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2003--Wahlco Inc., Hamon Research-Cottrell, and their licensor EC&C Technologies Inc. have obtained a permanent injunction against Environmental Elements ...

Engineers have developed a high-performance nanowire catalyst that pulls ammonia and solid ammonia (fertilizer) from nitrate, a common contaminant in industrial wastewater and polluted groundwater. A ...