The technology relies on our patent pending lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis reactor 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.