By switching to renewable electricity to make ammonia we could save over 40 million tonnes of CO2 each year in Europe alone, or over 360 million tonnes worldwide.
We can also covert back into hydrogen and burn ammonia to make electricity when the wind is not blowing.
The Siemens Green Ammonia Demonstrator brings together, in a single site, all the technologies required to demonstrate the complete ammonia energy cycle. The project helps people better understand the potential of ammonia for the rapid deployment of a bulk, carbon-free hydrogen network.
Based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK and created in partnership with the Science and Technology Facilities Council, the University of Oxford and Cardiff University, the system uses water electrolysis to provide a hydrogen supply and extracts nitrogen from the air.
The system combines these two elements in the well-established Haber-Bosch process to make ammonia which can be used as a new form of energy storage. When burned, ammonia turns back into nitrogen and water, and does not produce the CO2 emissions associated with fossil fuels - link
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