The Haber-Bosch process is a commonly industrial method used to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen (N₂) and hydrogen (H₂) gases. Developed in the early 20th century, this process is crucial for producing fertilizers and has significantly contributed to modern agriculture. However, this process releases about 1.3% of our global greenhouse gas emissions, putting our world at risk.

The process takes nitrogen from the air and hydrogen, which is typically obtained from natural gas through steam reforming. The reaction takes place at high temperatures (400-500 °C) and high pressures (150-300 atmospheres) in the presence of an iron catalyst. This process usually happens in huge, centralized facilities, far away from the point-of-use, leading to additional CO2 emissions tied to the transport.

NitroVolt offers a clean, green, and local ammonia production system that gives power to the individual farmer over their own nitrogen-based fertilizer needs.

The technology relies on our patent pending lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis reactor, which we call the Nitrolyzer. The final system will only require air, water, and green electricity to synthesize sustainable ammonia directly at the point-of-use.


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The modular units can stand at the customer site, such as a farm or greenhouse, generating the necessary ammonia on demand. The technology is easily scalable, and fits the customers daily demand from a few hundred to thousands of kilograms of ammonia.

The process happening inside the Nitrolyzer unit is based on the reduction of lithium salt to metallic lithium. This metallic lithium will then react with nitrogen to form a nitride. The nitride is easily protonated by hydrogen sourced via water splitting. This leads to the formation of ammonia, and the lithium is released back into solution, to be recycled and start the reaction again.

This process happens continuously in our patent pending flow-cell reactor, making ammonia on-demand.