MITEI-supported research advancing the science, technologies, and policies needed to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and expand energy access.
This project focuses on adding electrical conductivity to microporous polymers, which can provide a new mechanism for industrial processes, such as membrane-based separations, adsorption, and catalysis.
This project aims to explore the underlying basic science of an energy efficient process to decompose ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen gas. The development of a low temperature ammonia decomposition reactor would revolutionize utilization of ammonia as a hydrogen carrier, thereby facilitating the use of clean, sustainable hydrogen as a fuel.
By bringing together and enhancing existing MIT modeling tools, this project will enable a holistic assessment of the economic, environmental and social implications of a range of plausible decarbonization and energy transition scenarios for African sub-regions, illuminating potential tradeoffs across different dimensions of sustainability. As such, this work will be able to provide important missing… Read more
Ethylene production has the second-highest greenhouse gas emissions of any single process in the industrial sector. Ethylene is also a key platform chemical and the basis for much of the US chemical industry. Ethylene is produced industrially through steam cracking of hydrocarbon feedstocks, an unselective and energy-intensive process that is difficult to decarbonize. In this… Read more