Thursday, December 10, 2020

Norway's Yara to produce shipping fuel from CO2-free ammonia plant

 Yara knows their way around the nitrogen atom.

From OffshoreEnergy.biz, December 8:

Norwegian fertilizer company Yara International ASA is planning to produce green ammonia, powering emission-free shipping fuels and decarbonized food solutions.

Against this backdrop, Yara will fully electrify its ammonia plant in Porsgrunn, Norway with the potential to cut 800,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum, equivalent to the emissions from 300,000 passenger cars.

The plant is expected to produce 500,000 tonnes of green ammonia per annum....MORE

Previously on Yara and/or ammonia: 

Autonomous Electric Ships: Norway's "Yara Birkeland tipped to launch late next year"

This Could Be A Big Deal: Norway's Yara and the Australian Nitrogen Economy

Shipping: "UK Department of Transport recommends launch of ammonia / hydrogen powered vessels within 5-15 years"
Ammonia, it's what everyone is talking about.
And if your crowd isn't, you'll be the best-informed next-gen energy storage/transport-medium connoisseur at the Thursday afternoon salon!

"Saudi Arabia Sends Blue Ammonia to Japan in World-First Shipment" 

Wind Power Biggie Ørsted to Power Yara Green Ammonia Plant 

"Turning air into bread"
Since I have been, and will be, going on about ammonia as a carrier for hydrogen

NH3 - ammonia - three hydrogens attached to a nitrogen:



https://thiscondensedlife.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/ammonia.jpg?w=389&h=272

about fertilizer and guano, about Yara and Norsk Hydro and Birkeland and explosives, I thought it time to add another post to ouyr nitrogen mini-library.
From the cheerfully optimistic The Roots of Progress:....