Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140104572

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140104572

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A landfill cover that generates electricity: a Microbial Fuel Cell application. Landfills account for over two per cent of Australia’s greenhouse emissions, dominating emissions from waste and wastewater. Methane emissions are inherent to landfills because waste cannot be permanently sealed until a landfill cell is full. In this project, a microbial fuel cell (MFC) landfill cover will be developed as a means of achieving full biogas capture, from the time that waste is placed. The MFC cover system would consist of a relatively thin and deformable granular graphite layer colonised by current generating methane oxidising microorganisms, overlain by a proton exchange membrane and steel mesh as the anode layer. The MFC cover will provide the benefit of power generation as well as more complete greenhouse gas mitigation.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2014

End Date: 08-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $403,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Environmental Engineering | Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified | Environmental Technologies | Environmental Engineering Design

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biofuel (Biomass) Energy | Climate Change Mitigation Strategies | Environment not elsewhere classified |

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