GREEN AMMONIA AND UREA SYNTHESIS VIA MAGNETIC INDUCTION METHOD USING ALIGNED HEMATITE NANOWIRES

The magnetic induction method has been proven to enable the production of
ammonia under ambient temperature and pressure. However, there is a lack of
fundamental understanding of the mechanism of magnetic induction to affect the
synthesis of ammonia. Therefore, both the effect of a nanocatalyst and the process
parameters on the ammonia yield was observed in this study. There are three objectives
in this project; the first is.to synthesize and characterize YIG and a-Fe203 nanocatalysts
for ammonia and urea production; the second is to synthesize ammonia at ambient
conditions via the magnetic induction method; and the third is to synthesize urea
directly from a mixture ofN2, H2, and C02 via the magnetic induction method using aFe203
nanowires. FESEM, XRD, EDX, raman spectroscopy, HRTEM, andFTIR were
utilized to characterize the nanocatalysts.