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Rice’s ‘revolutionary’ reactor turns wastewater into green ammonia, drinking water | This breakthrough in electrochemical synthesis offers a sustainable alternative to traditional ammonia production methods.
The new system uses electrochemical synthesis, which can occur at room temperature and be powered by decentralized renewable energy sources.
“Electrochemistry can occur at room temperature, is more amenable to scalable formats for different infrastructure systems, and has the capacity to be powered by decentralized renewable energy,” explained Feng-Yang Chen, lead author and Rice graduate student, in the press release. “Nitrate is one of the priority pollutants that most frequently violates drinking water standards, and it is a significant concern in growing cities as farmland with nitrate-contaminated groundwater supplies is converted to urban development,” noted Pedro Alvarez, the George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice. This study, supported by Rice University and the National Science Foundation through the Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT), represents a significant step towards sustainable chemical processing.
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