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=== Small-scale onsite plants === In April 2017, Japanese company Tsubame BHB implemented a method of ammonia synthesis that could allow economic production at scales 1-2 orders of magnitude below than ordinary plants with utilizing electrochemical catalyst.
== Green ammonia == In 2024, the BBC announced numerous companies were attempting to reduce the 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions caused by the use/production of ammonia by producing the product in labs. The industry has become known as "green ammonia." When an existing blast furnace is modified to use biomass as its fuel, production of both green steel and green hydrogen/ammonia are feasible.
== Byproducts and shortages due to shutdowns == One of the main industrial byproducts of ammonia production is CO2. In 2018, high oil prices resulted in an extended summer shutdown of European ammonia factories causing a commercial CO2 shortage, thus limiting production of CO2-based products such as beer and soft drinks. This situation repeated in September 2021 due to a 250-400% increase in the wholesale price of natural gas over the course of the year.
== See also == Ammonia Amine gas treating Haber process Liquid nitrogen wash Hydrogen economy Methane pyrolysis
== References ==
=== Works cited === Clark, Jim (April 2013) [2002]. "The Haber Process". Retrieved 15 December 2018.
== External links == Today's Hydrogen Production Industry Energy Use and Energy Intensity of the U.S. Chemical Industry Archived 2018-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Report LBNL-44314, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Scroll down to page 39 of 40 PDF pages for a list of the ammonia plants in the United States) Ammonia: The Next Step includes a detailed process flow diagram. Ammonia production process plant flow sheet in brief with three controls.