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Advancing the commercial application of Metal Organic Frameworks for

industrial decarbonisation

Belfast 27th February 2020

Dr. Jose Casaban

Fighting CO2 emissions: Next Generation Solutions

CCUS Training

Outline

• CO2 emissions: The challenge

• Metal Organic Frameworks

• MOF Technologies

• MOFs for CO2 capture:➢MOF Enhancements

➢MOF Membranes

➢MOFs in large scale

CO2 emissions

THE CHALLENGE• Rapid increase in CO2 emissions (x10)

• CO2 contributes more than 60% to global warming

• Target: keep climate change below 2°C

• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050

• Non-CO2 emitting sources of energy + CCS

State-of-the-art: Amine Scrubbing

- Costly solutions (75% of CCS)

- Scalability issues

- Large Footprint

- High energy consumption

EU Goal

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What is a MOF?

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Pores

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs)

• Super adsorbents: gas capacity and selectivity

• Record-breaking porosities

• Tailorable chemical structures

• Gas filtration and storage applications

MOFs for carbon dioxide capture

• Highest CO2 adsorption capacity (even at low CO2).

• Adsorption of CO2 from real gas mixtures: selectivity.

• Adsorption of CO2 even in the presence of humidity.

• Very low regeneration energy.

Structural features:

unsaturated metal sites

heteroatoms functionalityhydrophobicity

WHY MOFS FOR CO2?

MOF Technologies

• Small SME incorporated in 2012.

• Based in Belfast.

• Technology developed at Queen’s University Belfast by Prof. S. James.

• IP protected method (environmentally friendly and scalable).

• We specialize in MOF manufacture, characterisation under

real working conditions and the development

of new MOF applications.

• Customer/partner collaborations.

• 1st MOF Product released.

Expert MOF Knowledge: with you from Problem to Product

Our Value

MOFShaping

MOFEnhancement

MOFProduction

MOF Performance

Problem MOF Product

MOF Production

• Continuous Production Facility

• Production Rates : 1-10 kg/hr

• Portfolio of 14 different MOFs

Minimal Solvent technology

Cost reduction

Highest STYs

Environmentally friendly

Scalable

Pilot Plant:

MOF Shaping

• Customized geometries

• Pellets (meeting customer demands:

size and strength)

• Powder MOFs: 25 g – 100s kg


MOFSynthesis

AdsorbentShaping

ApplicationDemands

MOF Performance

Low Pressure Sorption

High Pressure Sorption

Dynamic Vapour Sorption

Dynamic Gas Breakthrough

Temperature Swing Adsorption

Pressure Swing Adsorption

• The MOF Adsorption Specialists

• We Evaluate MOFs under real conditions

• Product Development

• Proof of Concept Studies

• Validation Studies

• Application Support

R&Dcollaborations

• H2020 EU projects:

• UK/Ireland projects:

At the forefront of R&D:

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 727619.

New process for efficient CO2 capture by innovative adsorbents based on modified graphene oxide aerogels and MOFs

Enhanced MOFs


Development of MOF/GO composites

Enhanced MOFs

i) MOF selection

Patent being filed

ii) Synthetic parameters

iii) Composite optimization

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Enhanced MOFs

i) MOF selection 9 adsorption-desorption cyclesCO2 capacity maintained: 7.5 wt%



iv) Shapingv) Upscale

vi) Demonstration


High performance MOF/polymer membrane systems for next generation CO2 capture.

MOF membranes


MOF membranes

Why membranes?

• Energy-efficient alternative for CO2 separation

• Smaller footprint and usually require less investment costs

• Widely used in gas/liquid separations

MOF Membranes

• Mixed Membranes (MOF + Polymer)

• Improve selectivity and permeance simultaneously


Large Scale Implementation

Metal Organic Frameworks for carbon dioxide Adsorption processes in power production and energy Intensive industRies

AcknowledgementsThis project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 727619.



Dr José Casabán

Technical Manager

[email protected]

+44(0)7531422115


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