By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360
ExxonMobil partners with Mosaic Materials in order to pursue carbon capture technology
ExxonMobil (stock ticker: XOM), an international oil and gas supermajor, has partnered with Mosaic Materials, a chemicals and engineering company, in order to explore and advance technology that can be used to remove carbon dioxide from emissions sources.
The carbon capture technology being researched by Mosaic uses porous, crystalline solids – known as metal organic frameworks (MOFs) – to separate CO2 from air or flue gas. The MOFs function like sponges, selectively capturing only specific gases from a complex mixture of substances, removing CO2 from emissions before it is ever able to reach ...
