{"id":213062,"date":"2025-05-02T09:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/electrosynthesis-of-urea-from-flue-gas-achieves-high-efficiency-with-no-ammonia-byproducts"},"modified":"2025-05-02T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:03:11","slug":"electrosynthesis-of-urea-from-flue-gas-achieves-high-efficiency-with-no-ammonia-byproducts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/electrosynthesis-of-urea-from-flue-gas-achieves-high-efficiency-with-no-ammonia-byproducts","title":{"rendered":"Electrosynthesis of urea from flue gas achieves high efficiency with no ammonia byproducts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electrosynthesis-of-urea-from-flue-gas-achieves-high-efficiency-with-no-ammonia-byproducts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Urea, with the formula CO(NH<sub>2<\/sub>)<sub>2<\/sub>, is a chemical compound that is widely used in a range of sectors, including manufacturing, agriculture and various industries. Conventionally, this compound is produced via a two-step process that entails the synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen (N\u2082) and its subsequent reaction with carbon dioxide (CO\u2082).<\/p>\n<p>This reaction occurs at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high+temperatures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high temperatures<\/a> and under <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high+pressure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high pressure<\/a>, leading to the formation of a compound called ammonium carbamate. This compound is then decomposed at lower pressures, which ultimately produces <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/urea\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">urea<\/a> and water.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional processes for producing urea are very energy intensive, meaning that to produce desired amounts of urea they consume a lot of electrical power. Over the past few years, some engineers have thus been trying to devise more energy-efficient strategies to synthesize urea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urea, with the formula CO(NH2)2, is a chemical compound that is widely used in a range of sectors, including manufacturing, agriculture and various industries. Conventionally, this compound is produced via a two-step process that entails the synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen (N\u2082) and its subsequent reaction with carbon dioxide (CO\u2082). This reaction occurs at high [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}