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News Release from: Mast Carbon Advanced Products | Subject: Shell Springboard Awards
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 March 2006
Reducing greenhouse gases by CO2
adsorption
The new Mast Carbon Technology activated carbon material absorbs significant CO2 emissions, and is being developed for a CO2 recovery system on remote offshore oil and gas platform installations
Mast Carbon Technology, the Guildford based specialist developer of synthetic activated carbons, have been selected as finalists at the recent southern region Shell Springboard Awards The inaugural Shell Springboard Awards scheme is aimed to encourage entrepreneurs to present an innovative and commercially viable business plan to reduce greenhouse gases
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 3 May 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Mast Carbon Technology entry focuses on its new activated carbon material which absorbs significant CO2 emissions.
This material will be used to create a highly efficient, compact and ultra lightweight CO2 recovery system for remote offshore oil and gas platform installations.
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 upstream oil and gas industry.
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At Mast Carbon Technology Professor Steve Tennison is behind the project which has evolved from the company's research into new polymer based carbon materials and a system designed for solvent recovery.
The novel monolithic system is similar in concept 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 specialist structure or re-injected back into old gas or oilfields on the seabed, thereby preventing CO2 from reaching the atmosphere.
"In the future, the Mast Carbon monolithic adsorbent has applications beyond the absorption of CO2 emissions, for example in the filtering of blood and also the absorption of solvents and other volatile chemicals released from industrial processes" says Steve Tennison, Managing Director of Mast Carbon Technology.
"We have already received academic support from Bath University who have published a study affirming the environmental credentials of our technology".
Mast Carbon Technology specialises in the development of controlled pore structure (micro-meso-macro) and physical form synthetic activated carbons tailored for use in absorption, biomedical, catalytic, electrochemical and many other applications.
Physical forms range from beads to complex monoliths.
These are currently available in Kg quantities for product and process development.
Larger quantities will soon be available through the Mast Plymouth based production facility, producing Mast Carbon Advanced Products, along with other activated carbon products (carbon beads and carbon cloth).
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