Plasma-driven catalysis: green ammonia synthesis with intermittent electricity

KHR Rouwenhorst, Y Engelmann, K van't Veer… - Green chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Ammonia is one of the most produced chemicals, mainly synthesized from fossil fuels for
fertilizer applications. Furthermore, ammonia may be one of the energy carriers of the future …

Plasma agriculture: Review from the perspective of the plant and its ecosystem

P Ranieri, N Sponsel, J Kizer… - Plasma Processes …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Plasma agriculture details the role of nonthermal plasma in the development of plants from
seeds to crops. Several publications reported enhanced plant growth, improved stress …

Shielding protection by mesoporous catalysts for improving plasma-catalytic ambient ammonia synthesis

Y Wang, W Yang, S Xu, S Zhao, G Chen… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Plasma catalysis is a promising technology for decentralized small-scale ammonia (NH3)
synthesis under mild conditions using renewable energy, and it shows great potential as an …

The 2020 plasma catalysis roadmap

A Bogaerts, X Tu, JC Whitehead, G Centi… - Journal of physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasma catalysis is gaining increasing interest for various gas conversion applications, such
as CO 2 conversion into value-added chemicals and fuels, CH 4 activation into hydrogen …

N2 fixation by plasma-activated processes

LR Winter, JG Chen - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Sustainable nitrogen fixation could offset the significant environmental and societal costs
associated with the energy-intensive conventional Haber-Bosch process (HB). This …

Identifying surface reaction intermediates in plasma catalytic ammonia synthesis

LR Winter, B Ashford, J Hong, AB Murphy… - ACS Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ammonia synthesis by plasma catalysis has emerged as an alternative process for
decoupling nitrogen fixation from fossil fuels. Plasma activation can potentially circumvent …

Advances in non-equilibrium plasma kinetics: a theoretical and experimental review

LD Pietanza, O Guaitella, V Aquilanti… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
Numerous applications have required the study of CO 2 plasmas since the 1960s, from CO 2
lasers to spacecraft heat shields. However, in recent years, intense research activities on the …

Plasma catalysis for ammonia synthesis: a microkinetic modeling study on the contributions of Eley–Rideal reactions

Y Engelmann, K van't Veer, Y Gorbanev… - ACS Sustainable …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Plasma catalysis is an emerging new technology for the electrification and downscaling of
NH3 synthesis. Increasing attention is being paid to the optimization of plasma catalysis with …

Status and gaps toward fossil-free sustainable chemical production

G Centi, S Perathoner - Green Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemical production needs to transform radically toward fossil-free sustainable chemical
production to meet the targets for net-zero emissions by the year 2050. The feasibility of this …

Is a catalyst always beneficial in plasma catalysis? Insights from the many physical and chemical interactions

B Loenders, R Michiels, A Bogaerts - Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Plasma-catalytic dry reforming of CH 4 (DRM) is promising to convert the greenhouse
gasses CH 4 and CO 2 into value-added chemicals, thus simultaneously providing an …