AmmPower Tech Firm has Announced Successful Cracking of Ammonia for Clean Energy
The race for clean energy is globally. Every country concerned with the high rate of global warming made possible by the high deposit of carbon to the ozone layer is making effort to curb the worsening global situation.
Among all the list of developed nations in this goal, the United States is not lacking behind. Among other programs in place in the United States aimed at discouraging the use of fossil fuels in modern technology such are the leading role of Elon Musk Automobile industry known as Tesla in the making of electric cars. The newest is the idea of obtaining substantial energy from ammonia to drive modern electrical devices.
A growing clean energy company located in Toronto, Ontario with laboratory at Michigan United State has demonstrated the possibility of looking at ammonia as another clean energy alternative.
According to the information released by AmmPower Corporation, they are pleased to have successfully cracked ammonia in their demonstration laboratory known as AmmPower engineering Laboratory located near Detroit, Michigan.
The corporation stated that their mission is to provide clean energy to the world by using the green ammonia and that can be achieve by applying ammonia decomposition technology and development of ammonia synthesis. The corporation noted that they are working on both areas to get the needed results for clean energy.
For simplification purpose, the term “ammonia cracking” or “ammonia decomposition” refers top the method use in separating ammonia back into its elements of oxygen and hydrogen. Note that ammonia is a compound comprising of hydrogen and oxygen which can occur in natural state or be produced artificially. The returning of the ammonia to its initial state by separating the oxygen and hydrogen is what the ‘cracking’ means.
AmmPower Corporation believes that successful cracking of ammonia can yield clean energy that is free from carbon. The firm boost of achieving close to 100 percent ammonia cracking record which they recorded with nondispersive infrared gas detector.
The hydrogen obtained from the cracked ammonia can be used in a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell which could produce around 100W of electricity power. The obtained electric power was used to power an LED electric bulb as shown in the pictures below.
According to Dr. Zhenyu Zhang the AmmPower’s Chief Technologist, the scale-up of the demonstration would ensure possible provision of low-cost clean electrical energy and green hydrogen that can by an efficient solution to the quest for clean energy. The future plans in program hold good expectations for the energy market’s needs.
