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.
Electrochemistry
First-principles
Fe
Ammonia decomposition
Rate-determining step
Ammonia synthesis
Scaling relations
Ru
Brønsted-Evans-Polanyi
Steps
Micro-kinetic models
Surface science
Haber-Bosch
Author
Anders Hellman
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Chemical Physics
K. Honkala
Jyvaskylan Yliopisto
S. Dahl
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
C.H. Christensen
DONG Energy AS
J.K. Nørskov
Stanford University
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry II (Second Edition): From Elements to Applications
459-474
9780080965291 (ISBN)
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Chemical Sciences
DOI
10.1016/B978-0-08-097774-4.00725-7
ISBN
9780080965291