A Roadmap for Plasma-Enabled Electrocatalysis in Urea Production.

ABSTRACT: Conventional Haber-Bosch/Bosch-Meiser routes link global urea production to fossil fuel-based ammonia, accounting for ≈2% of the world's energy use and ≈1.5% of CO₂ emissions. A modular, fully electrified alternative is charted that cleaves the problem at its natural fault line: a non-thermal plasma first upgrades air to nitrate, then a CO₂/NO₃ ^- co-electrolyzer stitches the two C─N bonds of urea at ambient conditions. The lens is deliberately cross-disciplinary: every bottleneck is probed with the question, "Has a cognate field already cracked this?" If so, how can the solution be mirrored here? Plasma physics contributes to vibrational pumping, power modulated reactors, and in water quenching; CO₂ and nitrate electro-reduction supply

SUBMITTER: Huang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12574632 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature