Abstract
In addition to their lifecycle carbon emissions, another important issue with decarbonized energy pathways is their air quality, water, or land use implications. This paper considers the air quality issue for ammonia combustion. When directly combusting ammonia, reactions of its N atom with atmospheric oxygen lead to NOx emissions that are O(103) ppm, 2 orders of magnitude higher than EPA limits or the amount emitted by current natural-gas-fired technologies. In order to provide guidance to policymakers and technologists on what is fundamentally possible, this Perspective analyzes the fundamental minimum NOx emissions that can be produced from ammonia combustion. The analysis shows that it is possible to achieve quite low NOx emission levels of O(10) ppm, but these designs differ markedly from those used in today's lean, premixed combustion systems.
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