Post by Wageningen University & Research

🧪🌍 How do you make essential chemicals without the climate cost? Together with the University of Twente (coordinator) and more than forty other universities, companies and knowledge institutes, WUR receives €20.3 million through NWO/GroenvermogenNL for research into sustainable production of nitrogen-based chemicals, such as fertilisers and medicines. The HyNITROGEN project starts this October. Today, these essential chemicals are produced using fossil fuels, resulting in large CO2 emmisions. This promising project aims to develop new production methods by exploring new catalysts, renewable electricity and nitrogen recovery from wastewater. WUR's prof. Harry Bitter, Professor of Biobased Chemistry & Technology, is one of the project's technical managers. Together with his research group, he focuses on developing new catalysts that could enable the reaction at lower pressure and temperature. 👉 Swipe through the slides to learn more.