Study prompts rethink over cost of renewables in green ammonia production

New research by a College Fellow is challenging assumptions about how best to use renewable electricity in green ammonia production, offering ways that could make it more cost-effective

Professor Laura Torrente Murciano, Professor of Reaction Engineering and Catalysis, together with her colleague Dr Collin Smith in the Catalysis and Process Integration Group, have led the study published in Nature Chemical Engineering.

“We are working towards the synthesis of green ammonia as green fertiliser and direct replacement of fossil fuels and, although technology is available, its deployment is far from becoming a reality due to economic reasons,” said Professor Torrente. “In this paper we reveal the main barriers considering that renewable energy is increasingly cheaper.”

Full story

Research
News

Related articles

Nativity! producer shares the magic formula for a Christmas classic

Nick Jones reveals the ingredients that make comedy film Nativity! so popular and his career path from St John's Law student to making movies

News
‘Personality test’ shows AI chatbots mimic human traits – and how they can be manipulated

Researchers co-led by St John's College postgraduate call for urgent regulation after developing tool for artificial intelligence systems

News
Research
Fellow who ‘conveyed the beauty’ of maths to generations of students dies at 88

Dr David John Haldane Garling, known as Ben, wrote core course textbooks and was ‘a pillar’ of College and University life

News
Ugandan PhD student Abel Wilson Walekhwa smiles at the camera in The Cloisters at St John's College, Cambridge
PhD student turns childhood struggle for education into inspiring new book

A St John’s postgraduate who studied while herding cattle as a child in Uganda has turned the challenges of his path to Cambridge into a book about resilience

News
Research