Promethean Particles, a UK-based specialist manufacturer of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and nanomaterials, has developed a tonne-scale MOF synthesis using its proprietary flow reactor technology.
The company's continuous flow process can produce carbon-capturing material at 100kg/hr, increasing reliability and consistency. Promethean has completed an initial shipment of 4 tonnes of the material.
Industrial production of MOFs remains relatively scarce, mainly due to a lack of scalable manufacturing routes and, in turn, prohibitively high costs.
According to Owen Cartmell, operations manager at Promethean, this is now changing. He led the development of Promethean's process to produce the MOF material at scale.
Author's summary: Promethean Particles achieves tonne scale MOF production.