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Mission: To promote the implementation of anhydrous ammonia as an affordable, sustainable, carbon-free fuel for transportation and stationary power applications, thereby enhancing economic security, reducing fossil-fuel dependence, and helping save the environment.
Anhydrous ammonia is an ultra-clean, energy-dense alternative liquid fuel. Ammonia is the only fuel other than hydrogen that produces no greenhouse gases (GHG) on combustion. Ammonia will power diesel and spark-ignited internal combustion engines, direct ammonia fuel cells, and even combustion turbines. And, ammonia can be manufactured from simply water and air using clean renewable energy.
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The 5th annual Ammonia Fuel meeting in Minneapolis on Sept 29-30 was very successful. Participation was up 75% over 2007 of the AFN. Presentations are available |here|.
Ammonia Fuel is part of the alternative-fuel solutions to an oil crisis in Edwin Black's recent book The Plan.
The Iowa Energy Center received thirteen research pre-proposals in response to their targeted RFP on ammonia as a fuel. The Winners of the Iowa Energy Center targeted grants for research in ammonia fuel are...| click here |
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The first utilization of liquid anhydrous ammonia as a fuel for motor-buses took place in Belgium during the year 1943. The motor-bus fleet logged thousands of miles during WWII with no difficulties.
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The X-15 rocket plane set speed and altitude records in the 1960s powed by anhydrous ammonia fuel.
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Clipper Windpower 2.5 MW turbines in background with liquid anhydrous ammonia (NH3) nitrogen fertilizer nurse tanks , 1000 gallons each. Wind-generated electricity can be locally converted to NH3 for fertilizer and fuel, without expansion of the electricity transmission grid.
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Existing ammonia (NH3) pipelines and storage terminals [11 ]. Storage is in refregerated, liquid, above-ground steel tanks of 1060,000 tons each. The pipeline is 8-10 inch diameter, constructed of plain carbon steel, with a total length of approximately 3000 miles, with regularly spaced pump stations.
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Hydrogen density and higher heating value (HHV) energy content of ammonia and selected liquid hydrocarbon fuels. DME = dimethyl ether and EME = ethyl methyl ether.
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