Underground ammonia production: Earth's natural forces offer sustainable solution

Scientists Tap Earth's Natural Chemistry to Create Cleaner Fertilizer - The Debrief

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a way to produce ammonia—a key ingredient in fertilizers—by harnessing the Earth’s own heat and chemical reactions. The achievement could potentially revolutionize one of the world’s most energy-intensive industries, thanks to a novel process detailed in a new study published January 21 in Joule. The findings could also offer a sustainable alternative to current ammo…

Underground ammonia production: Earth's natural forces offer sustainable solution

Instead of relying on energy-hungry reactors to generate high temperatures and pressure, researchers are looking underground at Earth's natural heat and forces to cook up ammonia for fertilizer.

UAE Plans to Invest $1 Billion in Blue Ammonia If Asia Will Buy

(Bloomberg) — Emirati firm Fertiglobe Plc intends to invest more than $1 billion to produce cleaner ammonia if it gets commitments to buy from Asia.

Without ammonia, there would be no modern civilization. It is crucial in nitrogen fertilizers for modern agriculture, without it humanity could not be saturated. Now a group of scientists from the prestigious American university MIT has come up with a way to produce it without electricity and much more environmentally friendly.

An international research team has developed a method to produce artificial fertilizer (ammonia): they want to use the earth itself as a factory. According to the researchers, this technique could drastically reduce the environmental impact of artificial fertilizer production, by making the process more sustainable and reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The idea arose after a remarkable discovery in Mali, […] More science? Read the l…

For clean ammonia, MIT engineers propose going underground

Ammonia is the most widely produced chemical in the world today, used primarily as a source for nitrogen fertilizer. Its production is also a major source of greenhouse gas emissions — the highest in the whole chemical industry. Now, a team of researchers at MIT has developed an innovative way of making ammonia without the usual fossil-fuel-powered chemical plants that require high heat and… Source