Production of Ammonia Using Sm3FesOu as Nanocatalyst and Its Kinetic Energy Study

• Main Author: Musti, Andrey Walter
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2011
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/10572/1/2011%20-%20Production%20of%20Ammonia%20using%20SM3%20FE5O12AS%20Nanocatalyst%20and%20Its%20Kinetic%20Study.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/10572/

The study for ammonia production has increases since the agriculture industry needs ammonia to produce urea. Current technology in producing ammonia requires very high temperature (300-500°C), high pressure (150-300atm) and high cost which results only 10-20% of total reaction hydrogen and nitrogen gas. This sparks the interest in producing ammonia using nanocatalyst to get the high yield of ammonia. This project focuses on using Samarium Iron Garnet (Sm3Fe50!2) as a nanocatalyst in producing ammonia. The catalyst was reduced using TPR method and run through nitrogen and hydrogen gas using two types of chamber which are steel and glass chamber. Magnetic field is also applied to observe the changes in the amount of ammonia yield. The results show that the amount of ammonia obtained using Samarium Iron Garnet as nanocatalyst with the presence of magnetic field is 54.8% of the total reaction in ambient condition. The future work for this project is to use CNTs as a support with the nanocatalyst in hope of obtaining higher yield of ammonia.