Topic: Cracking Ammonia

In this talk, I will discuss our latest research in developing novel ammonia cracking catalysts. While ammonia can be used directly as a fuel in high temperature fuel cells, internal combustion engines and gas turbine, the ability to crack ammonia affordably and effectively increases the range of possibilities for utilising ammonia as an energy vector. For example, the production of an ammonia-free hydrogen/nitrogen gas mixture permits the consideration of ammonia as an on-board hydrogen storage option for transportation. Furthermore, the ability to partly crack ammonia provides an increased flexibility for internal combustion engines. I will outline developments in our search…

The Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) Department at the Colorado School of Mines is dedicated to the continual improvement of the laboratory resources made available to those undergraduates enrolled in courses which have major or minor laboratory components. One such course is Kinetics and Reaction Engineering (CBEN 418), offered to undergraduate seniors in the CBE department. Historically, this course has been delivered primarily as a series of traditional classroom lectures with an experimental module (usually one week at the end of the semester) with about 2 hours of participation time per student outside of normal class hours. Previous experimental designs…