BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20221019T213358Z UID:933B3074-9C05-46A4-8FAC-6DF8A6F3E79E DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T190000 DESCRIPTION:The Haber-Bosch process has remained the industry standard for ammonia synthesis for the last 100 years and is considered one of the grea test innovations of the 20th century. This process today produces about 15 0 million tons of ammonia per year and utilizes around 1% of the total ene rgy supply of the world. The HB process has been fine-tuned and has gained great efficiencies at large scale over this time\; however\, the large-sc ale processes is now a large contributor in carbon emissions. A significan t effort has been placed recently to both lower processing conditions and modularize the ammonia process so that it can be better paired with renewa ble energy to make the process green. A partnership between WVU\, NETL\, a nd Malachite technologies has developed a process using microwaves to lowe r the processing temperature and pressure for ammonia synthesis. This proc ess utilizes the microwaves to selectively heat the active sites of the ca talyst which lowers the bulk temperature of the reaction and has shown the highest ammonia production rates at low pressure conditions than competin g methods such as electrolytic and plasma. Microwaves provide a unique dir ect heating of the catalyst that provides quick ramps and load following a bility for pairing with renewable energy. The group has worked through sig nificant challenges such as catalyst development and scale-up for the micr owave reactors and will be discussed in this talk. The process has been de monstrated at 1kg/day at 300°C and 300psi and will enable distributed amm onia production for local farm communities and energy storage for wind tur bines.\n\nSpeaker(s): Christina\, \n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee. org/m/323668 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/323668 ORGANIZER:c.jackson@ieee.org SEQUENCE:12 SUMMARY:SusTech Talk: Enabling Distributed Ammonia Production with Microwav es URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/323668 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>The Haber-Bosch process has remained the i ndustry standard for ammonia synthesis for the last 100 years and is consi dered one of the greatest innovations of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. &nbs p\;This process today produces about 150 million tons of ammonia per year and utilizes around 1% of the total energy supply of the world. &nbsp\;The HB process has been fine-tuned and has gained great efficiencies at large scale over this time\; however\, the large-scale processes is now a large contributor in carbon emissions.&nbsp\; A significant effort has been pla ced recently to both lower processing conditions and modularize the ammoni a process so that it can be better paired with renewable energy to make th e process green.&nbsp\; A partnership between WVU\, NETL\, and Malachite t echnologies has developed a process using microwaves to lower the processi ng temperature and pressure for ammonia synthesis.&nbsp\; This process uti lizes the microwaves to selectively heat the active sites of the catalyst which lowers the bulk temperature of the reaction and has shown the highes t ammonia production rates at low pressure conditions than competing metho ds such as electrolytic and plasma.&nbsp\; Microwaves provide a unique dir ect heating of the catalyst that provides quick ramps and load following a bility for pairing with renewable energy.&nbsp\; The group has worked thro ugh significant challenges such as catalyst development and scale-up for t he microwave reactors and will be discussed in this talk. The process has been demonstrated at 1kg/day at 300&deg\;C and 300psi and will enable dist ributed ammonia production for local farm communities and energy storage f or wind turbines.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR