Ammonia combustion technology development project including AGC selected by NEDO
AGC has been selected by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) as a contractor for the project: "Development of Fuel Ammonia Combustion Technology for Industrial Furnaces".
The company will develop this project jointly with Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and Tohoku University from the end of December 2021 to March 2026.
The project focuses on ammonia, which does not produce CO2 when burned, is already widely distributed as a fertilizer, industrial raw material and has the same transportability as propane.
An ammonia–oxygen combustion burner will be installed in the architectural glass production facility at the AGC Yokohama Technical Center to conduct demonstration tests of ammonia combustion technology.
In addition to evaluating the effects of ammonia combustion on glass and the materials that comprise the melting furnace, AGC and its partners will develop a burner that can meet environmental standards and aim to deploy it in glass melting furnaces on a full scale.
In the future, the project will consider expanding the applications beyond glass to other materials manufacturing processes, such as steel and aluminium.
Image: AGC Yokohama glass melting furnace used for demonstration tests
