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

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.