| You misspelled "replacement of the nearly the entire fuel system." "Easily transported"? Are you nuts? It has far less chemical compatibility than LNG and is wildly more dangerous to people. It gets even worse if the ammonia has any impurities. Ammonia is highly corrosive to zinc, brass, and copper. Copper, for example, is often used as crush washers in high pressure banjo bolt fittings used in oil and fuel lines in automotive applications. It's wildly incompatible with several elastomers (ie fuel lines and seals) and plastics (fuel tanks, sensors, tubing, etc.) If there are impurities in the ammonia, it starts eating the shit out of steel, too. I doubt existing emissions control equipment would work. Then there's the small problem of what happens when any unburned ammonia makes it past the rings into the crankcase....so the entire evap system now has to have ammonia-compatible parts...and since the evap system vents into the intake system, which is often made with lots of plastic, now you've got to replace the intake manifold. And since the oil is going to get contaminated with ammonia, the entire oil system has to have ammonia-compatible parts, too. In modern direct injection vehicles (diesel or gasoline) you're likely at a huge number of components that would likely need to see ammonia-compatible equivalents developed, manufactured, tested, and then installed on the vehicle. The high pressure pump on most passenger vehicles is driven off a cam and tightly integrated into the engine, for example. It's not just a matter of "swap out the fuel pump." Fuel tanks in passenger vehicles are often plastic and not trivial to remove, at all. Oh, and: renewable energy sources are significantly cheaper than nuclear, which is why wind and solar are replacing decommissioned nukes at a ratio of 6:1. You seem a bit outside your lane. |
Why would there be impurities in ammonia generated from solar powered water electrolysis? Where are they coming from?
Why would clean NH3 react strongly with carbon-managanese steel pressure vessel used in LNG transport?
>I doubt existing emissions control equipment would work.
Is emissions control installed on large marine diesels and stationary generation in Japan?
>In modern direct injection vehicles
Bzzzt. Wrong. This article is about coal power.