Carbon capture gets personalised touch to match best tech with right location

A modular platform that combines modelling and experimental work can identify top-performing sorbents for carbon capture and could help bridge the ‘valley of death’ between research and practical implementations of carbon capture applications.

Developed by researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and Heriot-Watt University in the UK, the Process-Informed design of tailormade Sorbent Materials, or PrISMa, connects materials science, process design, techno-economics and life-cycle assessment to screen promising sorbents, such as metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), for carbon capture.