Our Leading Application for MOFs
Carbon Capture
Demand for energy-efficient carbon capture is accelerating
Traditional solvent-based carbon capture systems require a significant amount of energy to regenerate the carbon-capturing material. In power generation applications, estimates put this energy penalty at up to 35% of the power station’s output. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) capture carbon mainly through physical, not chemical means. This “trapping” process requires lower energy inputs to regenerate the MOFs and can therefore help achieve more energy-efficient carbon capture. By using MOF-based carbon capture, more of the power generated can go where it was intended, lowering the price of energy for consumers and CAPEX for the power generators.
Taking on climate change together
Making a meaningful impact on climate change will require many different policy and technology solutions, all working simultaneously. Promethean’s primary focus is on delivering industrial-scale, cost-effective metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to enable energy-efficient carbon capture and storage (CCS).
Our technology also lends itself to the manufacture of a variety of other nanomaterials that can play a role in decarbonisation; improving energy efficiency and switching fossil fuels for non-carbon alternatives.
Carbon Capture
There are two main approaches to carbon capture. Post-combustion (PC) carbon capture involves capturing the carbon generated when burning fossil fuels, whilst direct-air capture (DAC) is the removal of CO2 that is naturally present in the air we breathe.
Energy Efficiency
Every megawatt of energy not used means lower emissions, making energy efficiency a powerful weapon in combatting climate change.
Significant activity is focused on several approaches to replacing carbon-containing fossil fuels, eliminating, or reducing the potential to form CO2 when burned.
Taking on climate change together
Making a meaningful impact on climate change will require many different policy and technology solutions, all working simultaneously. Promethean’s primary focus is on delivering industrial-scale, cost-effective metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to enable energy-efficient carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS).
Our technology also lends itself to the manufacture of a variety of other nanomaterials that can play a role in decarbonisation; improving energy efficiency and switching fossil fuels for non-carbon alternatives.
Carbon Capture
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Post-Combustion Carbon Capture
Post-combustion gas streams offer one of the highest concentrations of CO2 and therefore represent the most impactful opportunity for CO2 removal. Promethean is engaged with several customers pursuing post-combustion carbon capture who are interested in the energy-efficient potential of MOFs.
Direct-Air Capture
Energy Efficiency
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Printed Electronics
Additive manufacturing processes avoid the waste from traditional subtractive electronics manufacturing and are therefore viewed as more efficient. Promethean’s manufacturing technology can be used to make consistent, high-quality nanoparticles that can be used in the production of conductive and dielectric inks, and that require lower sintering temperatures, compared with their bulk material counterparts.
Thermal Fluids
The addition of nanoparticles to a heat transfer fluid has been shown to improve a system’s thermal efficiency. These nano-augmented fluids are increasingly being deployed in a variety of applications, including air and ground-source heat pumps, server farm cooling, indirect solar and thermal storage systems.
Fuel Switching
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Green Hydrogen Catalysts
“Green” hydrogen is the hydrogen produced when renewable electricity is used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen and is believed to be a critical enabler of the global transition to sustainable energy and net-zero emissions. Promethean is making materials to aid more efficient catalysis for processes to produce green hydrogen.
MOFs for Hydrogen Storage
Traditional storage methods for hydrogen require very high pressures to densify the hydrogen gas, requiring high energy costs for compression and significantly robust pressure vessels that increase cost, weight and space. The incredibly high internal surface areas of MOFs allow the same volume of hydrogen to be stored at significantly lower pressures, alleviating these extra cost and design constraints.
Carbon Capture
There are two main approaches to carbon capture. Post-combustion (PC) carbon capture involves capturing the carbon generated when burning fossil fuels, whilst direct-air capture (DAC) is the removal of CO2 that is naturally present in the air we breathe.
Energy Efficiency
Every megawatt of energy not used means fewer emissions, making energy efficiency a powerful weapon in combatting climate change.
Significant activity is focused on several approaches to replacing carbon-containing fossil fuels, eliminating, or reducing the potential to form CO2 when burned.
CO2 Capture MOF
MOFs for carbon capture
The repetitive lattice structures of MOFs with their ultra-high surface areas, CO2 selectivity, and low energies of desorption make them an ideal candidate to enable more energy-efficient carbon capture
The repetitive lattice structures of MOFs with their ultra-high surface areas, CO2 selectivity, and low energies of desorption make them an ideal candidate to enable more energy-efficient carbon capture
Tomorrow’s technology – available today
Not long ago, MOFs were considered a technology of the future, a subject of academic exploration rather than offering the potential of real commercial viability. But thanks to our patented reactor designs, continuous synthesis process and more than a decade of manufacturing know-how, Promethean is leading the charge for MOFs being designed into carbon capture and other gas separation applications today.
New Collaboration
on Novel Approach to
Carbon Capture
Promethean announces new collaboration with the University of Nottingham and Drax power station, on novel carbon capture approach. using MOFs as solid sorbent.
Capture
Carbon
Demonstration
With MOFs, a flue gas stream is passed through the cage-like, highly porous MOF structure. The CO2 is adsorbed and the “cleaned” air is then released.
MOFs for Carbon Capture
& Storage
White paper
Novel approaches to carbon capture are a necessity to tackle the accelerating negative impacts of man-made climate change. Learn how MOFs can play a pivotal role.