Clariant and Casali develop new catalyst for ammonia synthesis

Recently, Clariant and Casale have jointly developed AmoMax-Casale, an award-winning and sustainable new catalyst for ammonia synthesis
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Compared with previous catalyst products, AmoMax-Casale has higher activity, which can further improve ammonia production efficiency while reducing pollution
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With the perfect combination of Clariant's catalyst expertise and the design strength of Casale's ammonia synthesis tower, AmoMax-Casale catalyst has a larger active specific surface area, and the efficiency index is up to 30% higher than that of AmoMax
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This remarkable performance upgrade helps the ammonia plant to significantly reduce energy consumption, resulting in a significant reduction in carbon dioxide emissions
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The high activity of this catalyst significantly reduces the operating pressure in the ammonia synthesis loop
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Compared to conventional magnet-based catalysts, AmoMax-Casale can further reduce the operating pressure of the loop by 10-20 bar, which means that the plant consumes less energy during ammonia production, thereby reducing CO2 emissions
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Higher activity catalysts combined with the Kasali synthesiser internals design take performance to new heights
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This means that a conventional 1,600-tonne-per-day ammonia plant is expected to save nearly 2 million yuan ($300,000) in annual energy costs and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 85,000 tons over an average catalyst life of 15 years
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What's more, AmoMax-Casale can also increase the production capacity of synthetic ammonia by another 5% or so
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