"How do we decarbonize our world?"
Photo courtesy of Navigator Gas
Why Green Ammonia?
As the world looks to transition away from fossil fuel energy, many solutions will be needed.
For decades now, wind and solar have been at the forefront of decarbonizing the world’s electric grids. Clean, renewable energy from wind turbines and solar panels is helping electricity consumers around the world to reach their decarbonization goals.
We have even seen certain sectors of the economy switch from natural gas and other fossil fuels to run on electricity, for the purpose of going green.
However, many other sectors of the economy will be difficult or impossible to electrify. For them, we need a different solution. For them, we need a fuel. That fuel is green ammonia.
Total U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Economic Sector in 2022
from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Approximately 75% of the world’s emissions today come from fuel-based sources, outside of the electric sector. Green hydrogen and green ammonia are excellent solutions to decarbonize many of these sectors. They can be produced in places that are abundant in renewable energy resources and shipped to places with high demand for renewable fuels.
Green ammonia is an important key to unlocking the Energy Transition
Today, conventional (gray) ammonia production accounts for 1-2% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, due to its reliance on natural gas as a feedstock, resulting in the release of approximately 500 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. Using green hydrogen is key to more sustainable ammonia production and for the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Through the Haber-Bosch process, which was developed in the early 1900s by Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, nitrogen and hydrogen are combined in a high pressure environment to form NH3. Today, nearly all ammonia made worldwide is produced from natural gas. Approximately 80% of today’s ammonia is used as a fertilizer, and the rest is used in the industrial chemicals manufacturing, mining, textiles, and other uses. In order to decarbonize these sectors – and to reach other sectors that do not run on ammonia today (such as steel refining, cement, glass, maritime shipping, and oil refining) – it is necessary to switch to a green process. By contrast to gray ammonia, green ammonia is powered using clean, renewable electricity sources such as wind and solar.
How to Produce Green Ammonia
Why not just stop at hydrogen? Ammonia contains about 3 times more energy than compressed hydrogen, and it is much easier to move and store than either compressed or liquefied hydrogen. Today, approximately 180 million tons of ammonia are produced, stored, and transported, and the new green ammonia industry will be able to utilize this existing infrastructure and more like it.
About Us
Kajamy Energy
Kajamy Energy connects renewable electricity with the sectors of the economy that need a clean fuel like green ammonia for decarbonization. We bring together trusted partners to enable the full contracting chain from green electrons all the way to the end user of the molecules. We make use of decades of renewable energy experience to help drive the Energy Transition using green ammonia.
Get in Touch
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Registered address:
4601 East Douglas, Suite 150, Wichita, Kansas 67218 (USA)