New opportunity for Pyrogenesis?

Ammonia Synthesis through Plasma‐Driven Nitrogen Oxidation:

Scientists in Belgium are working on a process to produce ammonia without CO2 emission.

A team from KU Leuven and the University of Antwerp in Belgium has developed a new process that is suitable for the distributed, small-scale production of “green” ammonia. The process, called PNOCRA (Plasma Nitrogen Oxidation and Catalytic Reduction to Ammonia), combines plasma‐assisted nitrogen oxidation and lean NOx trap technology, adopted from diesel‐engine exhaust gas aftertreatment technology.

PNOCRA achieves an energy requirement of 4.6 MJ mol−1 NH3, which is more than four times less than the state‐of‐the‐art plasma‐enabled ammonia synthesis from N2 and H2 with reasonable yield (>1 %). 

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2020/10/20201028-pnocra.html

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.202011676