ExxonMobil, a founding member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Energy Initiative (MITEI), announced Thursday it will join the initiative’s Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Center. “ExxonMobil’s collaboration with the MIT Energy Initiative has supported energy technology innovations and enables students to gain hands-on experience through sponsored research projects and internships,” MITEI Director Robert Armstrong said in a release. “Through this new support, ExxonMobil will foster much-needed development of technologies that can aid the transition to a low-carbon energy future.”
The CCUS center is one of eight low-carbon energy centers under MITEI, the others being focused on lectric power systems, energy bioscience, energy storage, materials for energy and extreme environments, advanced nuclear energy systems, nuclear fusion, and solar energy.
“Advancing economic and sustainable technologies to capture carbon dioxide is one component of ExxonMobil’s research into lower-emissions solutions,” said Vijay Swarup, vice president for research and development at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co., in the release. “This effort expands our continuing collaboration with MIT to advance the scientific fundamentals needed to deliver low-carbon energy solutions.”
