University of Newcastle green ammonia partnership wins commercialisation funding
The new $18 million ammonia as hydrogen carrier research partnership involves the University of Newcastle, Australian company Element One, and the Australian Government.
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The partnership is the first research grant for the University of Newcastle under the Trailblazer for Recycling and Clean Energy (TRaCE) program – a partnership with UNSW to fast track the commercialisation of (recycling and) clean energy technologies and support national decarbonisation and manufacturing agendas.
Element One, a company focused on emerging hydrogen technologies have partnered with University of Newcastle's Laureate Professor Behdad Moghtaderi to deliver a project titled: AMMONIAC: A Chemical Looping-Based Process for Production of Green Ammonia.
AMMONIAC will be a multi-phase project concerned with the production of green ammonia as a hydrogen carrier, and one that Laureate Professor Moghtaderi said will have impact on a global scale.
Phase one of AMMONIAC will focus on the development and validation of a proof-of-concept prototype, while phase two will be dedicated to the construction, commissioning, and operation of a 10 tonne/day reference plant at a site in Queensland.