Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140100621
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Synthetic phenazines for enhanced biogas production from renewable and non-renewable resources. Methane (biogas) has a large role to play in meeting the energy needs of the human race globally whilst reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Microbial communities are responsible for biogas production from non-renewable (coal) and renewable (food waste) resources. This project seeks to: increase biogas yields by redirecting electron flow towards biogas producing microbes using electrochemically active phenazines; understand the molecular mechanism by which phenazines increase biogas yields; and, assess the environmental consequence of phenazine application to coal seam gas production and anaerobic digestion of food waste. Phenazines are likely to emerge as a safe and cost-effective technology for improved biogas generation.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 04-2017
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $330,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Environmental Biotechnology not elsewhere classified | Industrial Biotechnology | Biocatalysis and Enzyme Technology | Industrial Microbiology (incl. Biofeedstocks)
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Biofuel (Biomass) Energy | Oil and Gas Extraction | Transformation of Coal into Gaseous Fuels |
