Northern Ireland’s MOF Technologies plans £2m carbon capture project

Cleantech firm based in Belfast works closely with cement and steel industry and expects to create about 10 jobsMOF Technologies has formed partnerships with some of the top cement companies in the world to help decarbonise the industry using Nuada technology.Belfast-based cleantech company MOF Technologies has begun a £2 million project that will see it build a test plant to demonstrate its carbon capture technology.

The funding for the project came from Innovate UK, a government agency that supports and stimulates innovation through funding, mentoring and other resources. The project will allow the company to scale up and commercially deploy the technology, building a small-scale plant as a demonstration project and with the first pilot plant in-field by the end of the summer.

The Queen’s University Belfast spinout’s Nuada technology works with a class of nanomaterials known as metal organic frameworks – crystalline, sponge-like materials that are highly porous and can store, separate and capture specific gases. These nanomaterials can be used to create filters for potentially harmful emissions from industries such as cement, steel and the waste-to-energy sector, releasing the captured CO2 through pressure instead of heat.

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