What you missed at the "Ammonia gets out and about" workshop

What you missed at the “Ammonia gets out and about” workshop

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10 de April de 2025
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On the 27th of March 2025, in Denmark, the DARE2X project held an international workshop on innovation in decentralised production and use of green ammonia.

Organised by LOMARTOV and Danish Technological Institute (DTI) – the DARE2X coordinator – the workshop presented state-of-the-art innovations for green ammonia production, at small scale, and debated the challenges for upscaling them and for decentralising production in the European Union.

In her keynote speech, Dr Andrea Guati Rojo, from the Ammonia Energy Association, the global industry association representing over 270 corporate members, talked about the current status of low-emission and decentralised ammonia production worldwide. Existing markets will see growth, while opportunities for ammonia as a fuel for shipping and power, and as a hydrogen carrier could grow dramatically. Small-scale decentralised ammonia plants exist and aim to demonstrate the feasibility of flexible ammonia production, but decentralisation presents a number of challenges.

CAMPFIRE alliance set the scene for introducing the technological innovations. As an integrated regional development strategy, CAMPFIRE focuses not only on researching and developing new technologies for the decentralised production of ammonia, from locally generated renewable energy sources; it also addresses the challenges for their implementation, as related to infrastructure, logistics, legal frameworks and acceptance. The CAMPFIRE governance model consists of 71 regional and cross-regional partners from industry and research, working together in an interdisciplinary approach.

The 7 technological innovations showcased in this workshop aim to use green ammonia for producing power (HiPowAR), as an alternative renewable fuel (ORACLE, DARE2X), for electrical energy storage (AELECTRA), hydrogen storage (AMBHER) and transport (HySTrAm), as well as to improve the combustion properties of ammonia for marine applications (AFLOAT). These projects seek to do this by developing novel membranes, catalysts and reactors, by improving the conventional Haber-bosh process, or through hydrogen enrichment, to improve the combustion of ammonia ship fuel.

The scaling up of such technologies and the decentralisation of ammonia production present various challenges. A roundtable discussion with speakers from the Ammonia Energy Association, CAMPFIRE alliance and Fundación Valenciaport underlined the availability of renewable energy sources, high investment and maintenance costs, storage and transport safety, permitting and the lack of standards and community acceptance as key determinants to a successful decentralisation. There is a consensus that effective policies for promoting green ammonia adoption are needed for these technologies to take off.