Wind and solar Hydrogen for Potential Ammonia Production in the State of Ceará ? Brazil

A. SIGAL; N. ESTEVES; E.P.M. LEIVA; R. RODRÍGUEZ; L. CARMO DE LIMA

Sao Paulo

Congreso; Congresso WICAC-SES 2014, 7º Workshop Internacional sobre Hidrogênio e Células a Combustível, 1º Seminário sobre Energia e Sustentabilidade; 2014

The feasibility of producing ammonia as main component for the synthesis of nitrogen fertilizers, in the state of Ceará ? Brazil, is analyzed. This potential for the ammonia production, via the Haber process with electrolytic wind and solar PV (photovoltaic) hydrogen, is described with maps showing it per unit area in each municipal division of the state. Thus, by using high resolution solar radiation digital databases and average wind regimes databases (speed, Weibull factor, terrain roughness) available for Ceará, news maps of the potentials for solar hydrogen and wind hydrogen are developed. Then a map of renewable hydrogen as the sum of both was created along with the corresponding potential for ammonia production with this renewable hydrogen. Land use and environmental exclusions were considered as areas where energy development would be restricted.