This is funny. I was looking at this again and again, and I said "This has no physics.' Hydrogen plant, my arse, this is an ammonia plant. How can they even call it a hydrogen plant? I looked at large-scale ammonia plants and they need their own coal generating to feed them. They would suck that rain-fed lake 5 times over.
So, this can't be it. On to something completely new:
Method for manufacturing ammonia synthesis catalyst, and method for manufacturing ammonia
Patent number: 11235310
Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a catalyst with which it is possible to obtain a supported metal ammonia synthesis catalyst, in which there are restrictions in terms of producing method and producing facility, and particularly large restrictions for industrial-scale producing, in a more simple manner and so that the obtained catalyst has a high activity. This method for manufacturing an ammonia synthesis catalyst includes: a first step for preparing 12CaO.7Al2O3 having a specific surface area of 5 m2/g or above; a second step for supporting a ruthenium compound on the 12CaO.7Al2O3; and a third step for performing a reduction process on the 12CaO.7Al2O3 supporting the ruthenium compound, obtained in the second step. This invention is characterized in that the reduction process is performed until the average particle diameter of the ruthenium after the reduction process has increased by at least 15% in relation to the average particle diameter of the ruthenium before the reduction process.
Type: Grant
Filed: August 8, 2017
Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
Assignees: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tsubame BHB Co., Ltd.
Inventors: Hideo Hosono, Masaaki Kitano, Toshiharu Yokoyama, Jiang Li, Shigeki Kawamura, Kazuhisa Kishida
AMMONIA SYNTHESIS SYSTEM AND AMMONIA PRODUCTION METHOD
Publication number: 20210380426
Abstract: The ammonia synthesis system of the present invention includes an ammonia synthesis reaction unit (10) that synthesizes ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen; an ammonia cooler (20) that cools an ammonia-containing gas discharged from the ammonia synthesis reaction unit (10); a gas-liquid separator (30) that separates ammonia liquefied by the ammonia cooler (20) from a circulated gas; and an ammonia synthesizing gas supplying unit (40) that supplies nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas, the circulated gas being supplied to the ammonia synthesis reaction unit, the circulated gas supplied to the ammonia synthesis unit having an ammonia gas concentration of 3% by volume or more. The method for producing ammonia of the present invention includes reacting nitrogen and hydrogen using a circulated gas having an ammonia gas concentration of 3% by volume or more and using an ammonia synthesis catalyst under a condition of a reaction pressure of 10 MPa or less to produce ammonia.
Type: Application
Filed: October 21, 2019
Publication date: December 9, 2021
Applicant: Tsubame BHB Co., Ltd.
Inventors: Taichi YAGI, Katsunobu YAMAGUCHI
This catalyst uses Ruthenium which makes Platinum look like a common metal. It is the most deadly metal on the planet (or at least the middle third). So far, the plant only has been shown on a small scale, and catalytic processes are notorious with scaling.
This plant produces no surplus hydrogen as part of the process. It uses up hydrogen produced by standard electrolysis, and nitrogen produced by cooling. The innovation is in the catalyst, which uses portland cement as a base, and converts circulating N2 and H2 into NH3.
All the 'happy dreams' come from using ammonia as the hydrogen carrier for the pipeline, they are big on burning ammonia.
They will also produce ammonium nitrate for shipping as a fertilizer. That stuff had nothing to do with the big Halifax explosion. It's safe as houses.
I'm saying this is not some 'greenie wet dream hydrogen plant'. It's a standard chemical plant with lots of stuff that can kill you, with a process that still has to try the whole scaling thing. For legal purposes, I love this plant, and Nova Scotia. I hope they throw in all their money, and all their electricity, and all their fresh water into it. I'll be the first to go by in my tour boat, and go 'Woooo'.
ps. this only has the greenies opposing it and the hearings are at Christmas. So you know how much physics will go into this. I call this a direct consequence of the greenie destruction of physics.
THE VOICE OF THE CONSENSUS - This is a fine green thing to do, as good as the windmills and solar cells that will feed it.
pps. I have decided that I'm the only one seeing this. I wish them the best of luck, and hope it works as well as the Ottawa LRT. Good-bye.
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