PlasmaLeap Technologies has secured almost AU$30 million in Series A funding to further develop its plasma-assisted, NOX electrolysis technology process, and to progress deployment of decentralized “fertiliser hubs”. Also in Australia, OzAmmonia has signed an MoU with Jakson Green to explore a pilot project in India, demonstrating OzAmmonia’s NOX-to-ammonia technology.
Technology provider Talus, certification provider CleanCounts (formerly M-RETS), and farmer’s co-operative Central Farm Service plan to deploy two modular ammonia synthesis plants in Minnesota, producing up to 20 tons per day of anhydrous ammonia for use as fertilizer by local farmers.
Ammobia has raised $7.5 million for its modular Haber Bosch 2.0 technology, combining proprietary catalysts and sorbents for low-temperature ammonia synthesis. In New Zealand, Liquium has raised NZ$2 million to validate its novel ammonia synthesis catalysts under industrial conditions. And US-based geNH3 has also raised seed funding for its patented Calcium-mediated technology for ammonia synthesis, targeting 5 kg per day production capacity by mid-April.
In our latest technology landscape analysis, AEA Technology Manager Kevin Rouwenhorst explores four broad categories for novel ammonia production technologies: improved catalysts, sorbent enhancement, electrochemical ammonia synthesis, and other technology pathways (including geological, single-step and looping synthesis).
US-based Addis Energy announced they have closed an $8.3 million oversubscribed seed round to progress work on subsurface production of ammonia, via the strategic injection of feedstock materials.
Icelandic start-up Atmonia is developing a novel nitrogen electrolyser technology which aims to produce ammonia from air and water in a single-step process.
2024 has seen successful funding rounds for a number of ammonia energy startups, ranging in focus from catalyst development to next-generation, modular synthesis technologies.
