NH3 From the Sun and Electric Engines (LEICE)

Ammonia Power

Posted December 18 2011 08:09 PM by jason.thompson
Filed under: Compression Ratio, Tech Tips

I'd like to see how an engine would run on ammonia. It'd be nice to produce your own ammonia fuel from the sun...at home.

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Producing ammonia from the sun. Wizard Power

Driving on ammonia.

NH3 Car

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Proton Ventures

Pee Power

Nitrogen from the air. Fritz Haber: Greatest and most influential inventor? Even more important than Mr. Diesel? It's interesting that Diesel's first heat engine designs used ammonia vapor in a closed cycle kind of like a refrigerator. It did not burn the ammonia instead it used it as a working fluid heated by an external furnace. He abandoned this design. Then went on to using gasoline in his first diesel engine. It exploded and almost killed him. Then he tried heavy oil I think petroleum. Finally some other company marketed peanut oil. I think Diesel supported it but at the time who could have imagined oil would be expensive.

Ending this blog with a IDI note:

Barnett High Performance ports 6.9 and 7.3L cylinder heads. I wonder how much power it'll make with my build if I decide to go this route?

Reader Comments:

1. NH3 – “THE OTHER HYDROGEN TM”
N. Olson P.E., J. Holbrook Ph. D

jason.thompson - Posted December 20 2011 07:54 PM

2. http://renewables.morris.umn.edu/wind/ammonia/

Globally-Unique Ammonia Production

A project to convert wind energy into anhydrous ammonia fertilizer is underway at the University of Minnesota West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC). The project aims to provide a renewable alternative of creating the $300 million of anhydrous ammonia currently used as nitrogen fertilizer in Minnesota agriculture, all of which is derived from fossil fuel energy sources.

"We are pleased to lead the development of this globally unique pilot project and believe that the technology developed will make a positive and substantial impact on the state's economy and environment," Greg Cuomo, former WCROC Department Head.
"Using Minnesota wind to make nitrogen fertilizer for farmers could transform agriculture, wind and hydrogen economics overnight"
Rolf Nordstrom, Upper Midwest Hydrogen Initiative

"The production of anhydrous ammonia is an ideal use for hydrogen in rural Minnesota," Cuomo said. "Anhydrous ammonia has many applications, but the most important use may be as nitrogen fertilizer. In addition, the infrastructure needed to store, move, and use renewable nitrogen fertilizer is already in place in almost every rural community in rural Minnesota."

jason.thompson - Posted December 20 2011 07:59 PM

3. Eddie Sturman was the person who first got me thinking about Ammonia.

http://www.sturmanindustries.com/main/news.htm

jason.thompson - Posted December 22 2011 11:40 AM

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