NitroVolt is working to develop sustainable ammonia for use in agricultural fertilizers. A market that accounts for 1.3% of the world's total CO2 emissions.
The project started at DTU Physics, where Suzanne Zamany Andersen, CEO of NitroVolt, was involved in developing the idea of producing sustainable ammonia for fertilizers. In 2021, she received the H.C. Ørsted Research Talent Award for her solution.
Farmers must produce fertilizer themselves
Ammonia is an essential component of the fertilizers that ensure food production. Today, it is produced in large facilities, consuming a significant amount of energy as the process requires very high temperatures and pressure.
With NitroVolt's solution, farmers will be responsible for their own production, thereby avoiding the energy-intensive production in large facilities.
"We can offer an ammonia production system that allows every farmer to produce their own nitrogen-based fertilizer. The only inputs required by NitroVolt's container systems are air, water, and electricity," says Suzanne Zamany Andersen's colleague Mattia Saccoccio, CTO of NitroVolt.
Financial support
NitroVolt is part of the Breakthrough Energy Fellows program, where they become part of the organization's Innovator Fellows.
This comes with guidance and a financial boost for development and research. According to NitroVolt, this will provide excellent opportunities to scale the business concept and demonstrate the technology in practice.
Breakthrough Energy was founded by Bill Gates in 2015 with the aim of accelerating innovation in sustainable energy and climate-friendly technologies.
Read more about NitroVolt here.
