Earth is bathed in nitrogen. It makes up about 78% of the atmosphere, and it’s stitched into every nucleotide, cell, living thing on planet. But before humans learned to synthesize ammonia using Haber-Bosch process, nitrogen was a major constraint proliferation life. Nearly all atmosphere comes form N 2 , an inert molecule unsuitable for chemistry that supports Living things need reactive nitro...

Ammonia may be one of the energy carriers in hydrogen economy. Although research has mostly focused on electrochemical ammonia synthesis, this however remains a scientific challenge. In current article, we discuss feasibility single-pass thermochemical synthesis as an alternative to high-temperature, high-pressure Haber-Bosch loop. We provide overview recently developed low temperature catalyst...

Exactly one hundred years ago, workers and engineers at the small town of Oppau near Ludwigshafen, Germany, were busy constructing a new factory that would start a more drastic change to global biogeochemistry than any other human intervention before or since. Towards the end of 9 , the chemicals company BASF had commissioned Carl Bosch to build the first industrial scale ammonia plant based on...

Human urine offers some interesting possibilities for ammonia and potable water recovery. Membrane distillation holds possible advantages over existing urine treatment technologies, specifically regarding ammonia recovery. It was shown that up to 95 m% of all ammonia present in hydrolyzed urine could be recovered by increasing the urine pH to 10.5 or higher within a period of 2 hours, with a ma...