Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP160102308
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Sustainable production of chemicals and fuels from carbon dioxide. This project intends to deliver a cost-effective efficient bioelectrochemical process converting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into chemicals and fuels. Microbes are fascinating organisms giving us cheese, beer and wine. A special group of bacteria is even able to produce electricity from waste materials, or eat electricity to convert CO2 emissions into chemicals. This process has the potential to dramatically improve the sustainability of future chemical industry and environmental biotechnology. It has been shown that acetate, an important precursor in the chemical industry, can be produced in laboratory-scale reactors using selected microbial communities. The goal of the project is to engineer a process able to produce a broad range of biochemicals and biofuels from CO2 at high rates and high product concentrations.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 12-2019
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $509,801.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Environmental Engineering | Industrial Microbiology (incl. Biofeedstocks) | Environmental Technologies
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Management of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Plant Production | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |
