The ASPIRE (Ammonia Synthesis Plant from Intermittent Renewable Energy) project aims to design a flexible scalable plant which is optimised to generate green ammonia from renewable power sources such as wind and solar.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough ammonia-based technology is advancing at a lightning rate and looks set to be a major player in a carbon-free future, currently its production creates a significant amount of greenhouse gas,\u201d said Dr Tristan Davenne, Senior Research Engineer in Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Energy Research Unit and the technical lead in the project. <\/p>\n
\u201cTo make ammonia fuel truly green and sustainable, we need to think about making the production process carbon free as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Future proofing<\/strong><\/p>\n Most of the project work will be carried out by engineers from both STFC\u2019s Technology Department and from Frazer-Nash Consultancy, a KBR company. There will also be inputs from scientists at STFC\u2019s ISIS Neutron and Muon Source.<\/p>\n To ensure all practical and logistical needs are considered, the team is working alongside renewable energy developers including Scottish Power, EDF Renewables and Engie.<\/p>\n The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has awarded around GB\u00a3284,000 to the team through its Net Zero Innovation Portfolio Low Carbon Hydrogen Supply 2 Competition, which aims to create a complete and ready-made design for industry.<\/p>\n Ammonia has traditionally been used as a fertiliser, but it is now increasingly seen as a hydrogen carrier and carbon-free fuel for the future.<\/p>\n It can be used directly as a fuel in internal combustion engines, gas turbines and fuel cells. As such, it looks set to play a significant role in hard to decarbonise industries including shipping, non-electrified rail and electric vehicle charging, as well as a fuel alternative for current methane fired power stations.<\/p>\n The fuel can be stored and transported at higher energy density and lower cost than hydrogen gas or liquid and it has an existing manufacturing and distribution network that has a good safety and reliability record.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A cutting edge ammonia project has won a UK government grant to help get it off the ground<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[40,43,489,174,159,35,337],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-ammonia","tag-green-ammonia","tag-renewables","tag-solar","tag-uk","tag-wind-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}