A photo-assisted electrochemical-based demonstrator for green ammonia synthesis

Xiaolu Liu; Zhurui Shen; Xinyue Peng; Lu Tian; Ran Hao; Lu Wang; Yangfan Xu; Yuping Liu; Christos T. Maravelias; Wei Li; Geoffrey A. Ozin

doi:10.1016/j.jechem.2021.12.021

A photo-assisted electrochemical-based demonstrator for green ammonia synthesis

Xiaolu Liu, Zhurui Shen, Xinyue Peng, Lu Tian, Ran Hao, Lu Wang, Yangfan Xu, Yuping Liu, Christos T. Maravelias, Wei Li, Geoffrey A. Ozin

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Abstract

Bridging laboratory research and practical utilization is of crucial importance for the development of green ammonia synthetic technologies. A decentralized photo-assisted electrochemical-based demonstrator has been proposed for green ammonia synthesis from renewable electricity, air and water, where well-known defect-laden WO₃ is used as the working electrode, and a commercially available PV panel supplies renewable electricity. In this demonstrator, defect-laden WO₃ exhibits the optimum electrochemical NH₃ formation rate (4.51 × 10^–12 mol s⁻¹ cm⁻²) in 0.1 M K₂SO₄ in a photovoltaic electrochemical (PV-EC) system. A system-level energy and cost analysis was conducted to investigate its economic viability and a general evaluation tool for system performance and cost estimation was proposed. This advance enables the possibility of integrating the small-scale green ammonia demonstrator into a stand-alone farm system.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	826-834
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Energy Chemistry
Volume	68
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jechem.2021.12.021
State	Published - May 2022
Externally published	Yes

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Fuel Technology
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Energy (miscellaneous)
Electrochemistry

Keywords

Ammonia synthesis
Electrocatalysis
Electrochemical demonstrator
Nitrogen reduction reaction
System-level energy and cost analysis

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