{"id":4749,"date":"2022-02-25T13:12:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T12:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tresca.es\/uncategorized\/ammonia-as-energy-carrier-for-the-decarbonization-of-industry\/"},"modified":"2023-10-16T11:54:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T09:54:28","slug":"ammonia-as-energy-carrier-for-the-decarbonization-of-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tresca.es\/en\/green-hydrogen\/ammonia-as-energy-carrier-for-the-decarbonization-of-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Tresca Ingenier\u00eda depicts the advantages of ammonia as an energy carrier to achieve the decarbonisation of industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The CEO of Tresca Ingenier\u00eda<\/span><\/strong>, Francisco Carro de Lorenzo, has given the lecture ‘Ammonia as an energy carrier for hydrogen transport and storage<\/em>‘ at the Spanish Engineering Institute.<\/h4>\n

Madrid, 23 February 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Francisco Carro de Lorenzo, CEO of Tresca Ingenier\u00eda<\/strong><\/span>, has delivered this Wednesday, at the Spanish Engineering Institute in Madrid, the lecture ‘Ammonia as an energy carrier for hydrogen transport and storage<\/em>,’ organised by the Rafael Mari\u00f1o Chair of New Technologies of ICAI. The main objective of the speech was to show the properties and competitive advantages of ammonia<\/span> as an energy carrier that will facilitate the decarbonisation of industry and improve the management of renewable energies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the lecture, the ways under consideration to achieve green ammonia production (without greenhouse gas emissions) with the aim of reducing the carbon footprint of the fertiliser industry and the rest of products derived from ammonia were detailed, as well as the potential future uses of this product as an energy “carrier” given its capacity to “become an easy and simple system for storing and transporting hydrogen,” as Carro stated. Ammonia has become an element that may be used to store, distribute and transport<\/strong> green energy and supply<\/strong> electricity to the grid at times when renewable sources do not produce the necessary energy: at night or on days with no wind.<\/p>\n

Thus, Tresca Ingenier\u00eda’s<\/span><\/strong> CEO explained that<\/p>\n

“hydrogen from water and nitrogen from air have the potential to combine to transport energy more easily and efficiently when mixed in ammonia than other possible energy carriers.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is because the ammonia energy density is much higher than that of hydrogen (calories per cubic metre increase significantly) and less space is therefore needed to store energy.<\/strong> This characteristic opens the door to the use of ammonia as a fuel for high-volume, long-distance transport, as in the case of maritime transport, where engines are already being tested to replace fuel oil in ships with ammonia mixed with other fuels (fossil fuels, biofuels or hydrogen itself).<\/p>\n

The basis of all this development, as Carro pointed out in the speech, is that ammonia can be produced without using fossil fuels (today between 1.6 and 2.3 tonnes of CO2 are emitted per tonne of CO2 produced), which will reduce the carbon footprint of the industry and thereby enable its decarbonisation process. Francisco Carro explained that<\/p>\n

“ammonia can be produced right now with hydrogen and nitrogen from the use of renewable sources: solar or photovoltaic energy. In this way, both hydrogen and nitrogen are generated without the need to emit CO2 into the atmosphere. And with green nitrogen and hydrogen, CO2-free ammonia is produced, i.e. green ammonia.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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