Matching a rural need for electricity to a rural source of electricity. Ammonia fertilizer made using wind turbine energy.

Tag; Wind

Link to Clean Technica article

Wind-sourced electricity is generated in sparsely-populated areas, many of which are also places were ammonia fertilizer is used.

Ammonia, NH3, can be made using nitrogen from the air and hydrogen, H2, which can be made by the electrolysis of water.

To make ammonia with these inputs you need a processing plant using the Haber process and inputs of electricity and air.

When the electricity input is going to come from variable wind-sourced electricity there are modifications that are made to the processing plant compared to a plant designed with the assumption of a constant input of electricity.

For Project Developers:

• The set of wind turbine and variable energy-ready Haber plants are in use today. This is not an announcement of a laboratory finding.

• Agricultural areas will be the best locations.

• The article does not mention cost of the plant or costs per unit of output.