Engineering360: "Imitating Nature to Produce Ammonia"

I have solar but instead of batteries I would like to store energy as ammonia. Is there an economical solution for doing this. Thanks

The ultimate goal of this research should be to produce ammonia on a massive scale as a fuel for combustion engines: the energy content per weight of liquid ammonia (@ 20°C and 10 bar pressure) is roughly half of that of gasoline. Handling this fuel would be comparable to handling LPG.

Since the fuel does not have any carbonatoms, exhaust gases (after passing over an exhaust catalyst) would consist of nitrogen gas, oxygen gas and water vapour which would radically solve the CO2-climate change issue. Converting an engine to use NH3 as a fuel should be fairly easy, so there is no need to replace over 800 million combustion engines worldwide. They should only be converted to the new fuel. Another advantage is that this fuel can be produced anywhere in the world.

In short: not only is agriculture waiting for this but so too is the transport sector.