CARGEN™ Technology available for Licensing by Qatar Foundation

UPDATE: The novel CARGEN™ technology developed by our research group is available for licensing from the Qatar Foundation.

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Description

CARGEN™ technology utilizes greenhouse gases (GHGs, i.e., CO₂ and CH₄) to produce CNTs and syngas (a mixture of H₂ and CO). CARGEN™ technology not only presents a potential economic incentive of significant cost reduction of CNT manufacturing, but it also brings significant sustainability benefit of converting large amounts of waste CO₂ emissions to solid stable product, i.e.; CNTs. While addressing the global challenge of CO₂ emission, this cutting-edge technology brings relevance to the need of this generation- ie; minimizing the cost of CNT production and making mass CNT production a possible commercial reality. CARGEN™ not only delivers to the market of CNT manufacturing but also produces syngas for downstream processing plants like Fischer Tropsch synthesis, Methanol, Hydrogen, etc. Several scientific and technical studies from our group (listed below) have demonstrated proof of concept, scale-up results, and life cycle assessment (LCA) results of the CARGEN™. In these publications and reports, we demonstrate that CARGEN™ can reduce the operating cost of the existing GTL reforming processes by 40%, while also minimizing their CO₂ emission by 45%. Moreover, since the co-reactant is CO₂, its conversion and capture can bring significant economic incentives. Currently, the CARGEN™ technology is capable to produce CNTs at the rate of 100 grams/month, while the development of the 1 kg/month unit is underway. The CNT sample produced from CARGEN™ has been tested, validated, and compared with commercial quality by several global R&D laboratories.

List of publications and patents:

1. Challiwala, Mohamedsufiyan A. CARGEN™: A NOVEL TECHNOLOGY TO ADVANCE METHANE REFORMING USING CO2. Diss. 2021.
2. Challiwala, Mohamed S., et al. “A novel CO 2 utilization technology for the synergistic co-production of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and syngas.” Scientific reports 11.1 (2021): 1-8.
3. Elbashir, Nimir O., et al. “System and method for carbon and syngas production.” U.S. Patent Application No. 16/500,800.
4. Challiwala, Mohamed S., et al. “Alternative via Pathways Dry Reforming for CO of 2 Utilization Methane.” Advances in Carbon Management Technologies 1 (2020): 253.
5. Challiwala, Mohamed S., et al. “Turning CO2 into Carbon Nanotubes”. CEP (2020).
6. CARGEN™ video by Texas A&M University at Qatar.