Ammonia Energy Association Conference was amazing!

Three of the members of the Starfire team attended the Ammonia Energy Association Conference the week of November 11. Joe provided an updated on the development of Rapid Ramp ammonia synthesis. Adam reviewed catalyst and cracking breakthroughs. Jennifer chaired a few of the sessions and lead a workshop on Public Perception. The Association has more than tripled in size in the past year and was attended by organizations and individuals from around the globe.

Visit https://www.ammoniaenergy.org/ to see the full line up of topics and speakers.

Jennifer Beach, COO, joins Ammonia Energy Association Board of Directors

Jennifer has previously served in leadership roles in other not-for-profit organizations; she expressed that she enjoys driving positive change. She had this to say:

“Change happens one person at a time through accurate information and meaningful conversations. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Ammonia Energy Association I will contribute my volunteer time toward furthering the goals of the organization, my energy into accurate details, and my passion into every conversation to increase awareness that ammonia is a vital next step in the world’s energy evolution.”

Talking about Colorado’s Clean Energy Goals

Jennifer Beach gives Starfire Energy’s elevator pitch to Colorado’s Governor Polis at the Commercial Vehicle Cleantech Challenge reception the evening of July 10th. “We can meet 100% renewable energy goals by using carbon-free NH3 as long term clean energy storage. Starfire Energy’s modular clean fuel systems are designed to harvest hydrogen from water, nitrogen from the air and combine them using the company’s Rapid Ramp NH3 system which is nimble enough to directly follow the variable output of clean energy sources such as wind or solar energy.”

Ammonia as a marine fuel is getting attention

Research has been published by Niels d Vries of C-Job Navel Architects about the “Safe and effective application of ammonia as a marine fuel”. Their press release dated June 11 states, “Ammonia can be safely and effectively applied as a marine fuel to reduce harmful emissions in the maritime industry” and Niels de Vries says: “Reviewing all ammonia power generation options, the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) is clearly the most efficient. However, it does have practical challenges as the power density and load response capability are not on an acceptable level yet. Therefore, in the short term applying the internal combustion engine is the way to go.” To read the full research paper, go to http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:be8cbe0a-28ec-4bd9-8ad0-648de04649b8.

AND…

Last week, Trevor Brown of the Ammonia Energy Association posted, “In May, the Environmental Defense Fund published Sailing on Solar, a significant new report that assesses the potential for green ammonia to be used as a maritime fuel, reducing the global shipping industry’s carbon emissions.” https://www.ammoniaenergy.org/sailing-on-solar/

We are an ARPA-E grant recipient

Starfire Energy is thrilled to announce we have received additional funding from the DOE ARPA-E program. Our thanks goes to all of those involved in the APRA-E program with special gratitude to our Program Manger, Grigorii Soloveichik.

Hello Tomorrow Top 500 Deeptech Startup

More than 4500 submissions from 119 countries were reviewed for this competition. In 2018 Starfire Energy was selected as a Top 500 Deep Tech company in this challenge.

Our catalyst synthesis rate map

We have developed a proprietary catalyst that supports very high NH3 synthesis rates at high space velocities and temperatures. It strongly outperforms industry-standard catalysts under these conditions. With it, NH3 synthesis can be ramped extremely quickly by changing reactant flow and less quickly by changing temperature. It is one of the core technologies that enables our Rapid Ramp NH3 approach. We have patents pending for its composition, synthesis, and use.