University of Houston researchers make breakthroughs in CCS

In Texas, researchers at the University of Houston made two significant breakthroughs that could reduce the cost of capturing harmful emissions from power plants, marking a major step in addressing climate change.

The first breakthrough, published in Nature Communications, introduces a membraneless electrochemical process that slashes energy requirements for amine-based carbon dioxide (CO₂) capture. The second breakthrough, featured on the cover of ES&T Engineering, demonstrates a vanadium redox flow system capable of both capturing carbon and storing renewable energy.