Ammonia Synthesis: State of the Bellwether Reaction
Book chapter, 2013
Catalytic ammonia synthesis has been judged to be one of mankind's greatest scientific achievements during the twentieth century. The socioeconomic implications of producing ammonia industrially have been a strong driving force, and this development has spurred a range of new discoveries within physics, chemistry, and chemical engineering. In this chapter, we describe how it has been possible in recent years to provide a full understanding of the catalytic ammonia synthesis reaction at the atomic level through the combined use of experiments and quantum mechanical electronic structure calculations, thus clearly showing many of the reasons why ammonia synthesis has been, and still is, the bellwether reaction in heterogeneous catalysis.
Ammonia decomposition
Fe
Electrochemistry
Surface science
Ru
Scaling relations
Ammonia synthesis
Haber-Bosch
First-principles
Micro-kinetic models
Brønsted-Evans-Polanyi
Rate-determining step
Steps
Author
Anders Hellman
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Chemical Physics
K. Honkala
University of Jyväskylä
S. Dahl
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
C.H. Christensen
DONG Energy
J.K. Nørskov
Stanford University
Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry II (Second Edition): From Elements to Applications
459-474
9780080965291 (ISBN)
Subject Categories
Chemical Sciences
DOI
10.1016/B978-0-08-097774-4.00725-7
ISBN
9780080965291