Better Absorbents for Ammonia Separation
Abstract
Making ammonia from renewable wind energy at a competitive price may be possible if the conventional ammonia condenser is replaced with an ammonia absorber. Such a process change requires an ammonia selective absorbent. Supported metal halide sorbents for this separation display outstanding dynamic capacity close to their equilibrium thermodynamic limits. Alkaline earth chlorides and bromides supported on silica and zeolite Y are the most promising. MgCl2 and CaBr2 at 40% loading on silica show capacities of 60-70 mgNH3/gsorbent at 150 °C and 4 bar. Overall, cations with smaller atomic numbers show more affinity to ammonia; bromides hold ammonia more strongly than chlorides. Different solvents and metal halide mixtures do not show significant changes in the absorption capacity. Finally, these absorbents can be incorporated into ammonia reaction-absorption syntheses to achieve faster production rates.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States). Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1434930
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AR0000804
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering; Journal ID: ISSN 2168-0485
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 17 WIND ENERGY; Ammonia; Absorption; Metal halides; Wind energy
Citation Formats
Malmali, Mahdi, Le, Giang, Hendrickson, Jennifer, Prince, Joshua, McCormick, Alon V., and Cussler, E. L. Better Absorbents for Ammonia Separation. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b04684.
Malmali, Mahdi, Le, Giang, Hendrickson, Jennifer, Prince, Joshua, McCormick, Alon V., & Cussler, E. L. Better Absorbents for Ammonia Separation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b04684
Malmali, Mahdi, Le, Giang, Hendrickson, Jennifer, Prince, Joshua, McCormick, Alon V., and Cussler, E. L. Fri .
"Better Absorbents for Ammonia Separation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b04684. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1434930.
@article{osti_1434930,
title = {Better Absorbents for Ammonia Separation},
author = {Malmali, Mahdi and Le, Giang and Hendrickson, Jennifer and Prince, Joshua and McCormick, Alon V. and Cussler, E. L.},
abstractNote = {Making ammonia from renewable wind energy at a competitive price may be possible if the conventional ammonia condenser is replaced with an ammonia absorber. Such a process change requires an ammonia selective absorbent. Supported metal halide sorbents for this separation display outstanding dynamic capacity close to their equilibrium thermodynamic limits. Alkaline earth chlorides and bromides supported on silica and zeolite Y are the most promising. MgCl2 and CaBr2 at 40% loading on silica show capacities of 60-70 mgNH3/gsorbent at 150 °C and 4 bar. Overall, cations with smaller atomic numbers show more affinity to ammonia; bromides hold ammonia more strongly than chlorides. Different solvents and metal halide mixtures do not show significant changes in the absorption capacity. Finally, these absorbents can be incorporated into ammonia reaction-absorption syntheses to achieve faster production rates.},
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year = {Fri Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
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