Introduction
Greener Ammonia: A Green Revolution ,With the growing population, climate action has become increasingly critical and is a major challenge to modern industry. When it comes to supporting a growing global population, food production is key. Approximately 50% of the planet’s food production depends on applying fertilizers that contain ammonia – a chemical harmful to the environment.
A Green Revolution
Current production methods use outdated energy-intensive processes, such as the Haber-Bosch process. Such processes consume around 1% of the world’s fossil fuels while producing large amounts of CO2 gas, contributing to around 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, developing greener ways to produce this is vital.
Creating Greener Processes
Greener Ammonia: A Green Revolution and Good fertilization makes for better plant nutrition, promotes plant growth, and boosts the quality of crops while preserving and even enhancing soil fertility. Hydrogen is one of the major reactants required for the process and requires extreme conditions and releases a great deal of CO2. However, to help combat these extremes and to establish a more environmentally-friendly method, the UC Berkeley team has designed a method for synthesizing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that bind and release ammonia at less extreme temperatures, saving energy.
Innovative Metal-Organic Frameworks
Researchers have been working tirelessly to help make the conventional Haber-Bosch process more sustainable.
