Synthetic activated carbon developer reaches final

A Mast Carbon Advanced Products product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Mar 28, 2006

Developer of synthetic activated carbons has been selected as a finalist at the recent South Region Shell Springboard Awards for its activated carbon material which adsorbs CO2 emissions.

Mast Carbon Technology, a Guildford developer of synthetic activated carbons, has been selected as a finalist at the recent South Region Shell Springboard Awards.

The inaugural awards is a scheme aimed at encouraging entrepreneurs to present an innovative and commercially viable business plan to reduce greenhouse gases.

Mast's entry focuses on its activated carbon material which adsorbs CO2 emissions.

This material will be used to create an efficient, compact and lightweight CO2 recovery system for remote offshore oil and gas platforms.

The system works by recovering CO2 from produced gas, thereby reducing the CO2 emissions created when the gas is either used domestically, for power generation or by power generation and flaring in the UK's upstream oil and gas industry.

Mast Carbon Technology's Managing Director Steve Tennison is behind the project which has evolved from the company's research into polymer based carbon materials and a system for solvent recovery.

The monolithic system is similar to the catalytic converters found in modern cars, but instead of using ceramics and metals, it employs the highly absorbent properties of activated carbon to trap CO2 emissions at source.

Once recovered, the emissions can be stored in a structure or re-injected back into old gas or oilfields on the seabed, thereby preventing CO2 from reaching the atmosphere.

"In the future, Mast's monolithic adsorbent has applications beyond the absorption of CO2 emissions, for example in the filtering of blood and also the adsorption of solvents and other volatile chemicals released from industrial processes", said Tennison.

"We have already received academic support from Bath University who have published a study affirming the environmental credentials of our technology".

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