The University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering could help to speed up the identification and design of new carbon capture and storage (CCS) materials for use by coal-fired power plants.
The research group – led by Christopher Wilmer, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, in collaboration with Co-investigator Jan Steckel, Research Scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, and Pittsburgh-based AECOM – published its findings in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Energy & Environmental Science: “High-throughput computational prediction of the cost of carbon capture using mixed matrix membranes”.
“Polymer membranes have been used for decades to filter and purify materials, but are limited in their use for CCS,” noted Dr. Wilmer, who leads the Hypothetical Materials Lab at the Swanson School.
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