US Patent Issued to Forschungszentrum Julich on May 12 for "Process and apparatus for synthesis of ammonia" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,461, issued on May 12, was assigned to Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH (Julich, Germany).

"Process and apparatus for synthesis of ammonia" was invented by Martin Muller (Sinzig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process and system for synthesis of ammonia includes an electrochemical main cell and an electrochemical preliminary cell upstream of the main cell. A voltage is applied between the anode and cathode of the preliminary cell and the main cell. The anodic half-cell of the preliminary cell is supplied with water, and the cathodic half-cell of the preliminary cell with nitrogen and oxygen. Oxygen is in the anodic half-cell of...