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 35-40% 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 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.

A recent study performed by Promethean Particles and an engineering company compared the cost of MOF-based carbon capture versus an amine-based alternative. The results, whilst early and subject to several battery limits assumptions, show that MOFs offer significant potential for energy, initial CapEx, and annual OPEx savings.

ENERGY PENALTY
GJ/te CO₂

4.75

Amines: 4.75
MOFs 86.3% lower

COST OF CAPTURE
$/te CO₂

$101

Amines: $101
MOFs 69.4% lower

INITIAL CAPEX
$M

$715M

Amines: $775M
MOFs 37.1% lower

ANNUAL OPEX
$M/yr

$445M

Amines: $445M
MOFs 68.5% lower

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Pioneering a Paradigm Shift in Advanced Materials

Carbon capture is now deemed essential in the fight against climate change

There is increasing recognition that carbon capture is needed more than ever. Governments are wavering in their decarbonisation commitments, and electrification and fuel switching approaches are simply not able to accommodate the full spectrum of power delivery requirements for all the world’s diverse range of industrial energy requirements.

Incumbent technologies such as amines have significant limitations

Solvent amine absorption carbon capture technologies require significant operational energy. Some power generation companies have reported 35-40% of gross power output. The associated plant complexity, high OpEx and CapEx, large footprint requirements, and concerning EH&S profile of these materials, has resulted in many seeking alternative soutions.

MOFs have shown early promise as an alternative technology

Since MOFs were first invented in the early 1990s, they have shown significant promise to revolutionise certain industrial applications. High surface areas, robust thermal and chemical stabilities, selectivity to separate target gases, and physical, lower energy gas trapping mechanisms, all point to an ideal advanced material – if they can be made at industrial scale and low cost.

Promethean's proprietary processes are unleashing the potential of MOFs

Promethean Particles’ proprietary continuous flow manufacturing technology overcomes the challenges that have prevented MOFs from being more rapidly adopted into industry. A simple, CapEx efficient manufacturnig process that is finally able to manufacture MOFs at the scale, cost, and quality necessary for industrial viability.

Pioneering a Paradigm Shift

MOFs for Carbon Capture

The incredible properties of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have put them at the forefront of new carbon capture developments.

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.

Promethean Particles’ ability to manufacture metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) at industrial scale marks a major breakthrough in making the use of MOFs for carbon capture not only feasible but commercially viable.

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