Ammonia:zero-carbon fertiliser, fuel and energy store
The production of green ammonia has the capability to impact the transition towards zero-carbon through the decarbonisation of its current major use in fertiliser production.
Perhaps as significantly, it has the following potential uses:
• As a medium to store and transport chemical energy, with the energy being released either by directly reacting with air or by the full or partial decomposition of ammonia to release hydrogen.
• As a transport fuel, by direct combustion in an engine or through chemical reaction with oxygen in the air in a fuel cell to produce
electricity to power a motor.
• To store thermal energy through the absorption of water and through phase changes between material states (for example liquid to gas).
With its relatively high energy density of around 3 kWh/litre and existing global transportation and storage infrastructure, ammonia could form the basis of a new, integrated worldwide renewable energy storage and distribution solution.
