Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0453061

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0453061

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Improved catalysts for liquid phase hydrocarbon oxidation. Hydrocarbon oxidation is the largest industrial catalytic application of molecular transition metal catalysts. Despite its widespread application, the cyclohexane oxidation process is inefficient as it operates at low conversions, with a requirement to continuously recycle large quantities of hydrocarbon feedstock. Because of the scale of the process, increasing the yield from 4.5% to even 6% (33% increase) would represent a drastic improvement, with flow-on economic and environmental effects. The proposal aims to combine novel modifiers into the structure of the catalysts, to effect this increase and develop cleaner, more efficient, catalysts.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-03-2004

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $240,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Industrial Chemistry | Chemistry Of Catalysis | Transition Metal Chemistry | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Organic industrial chemicals not classified elsewhere | Synthetic resins and rubber | Chemical sciences |

Other Keywords

Chemical sciences | Chemistry Of Catalysis | Industrial Chemistry | Organic industrial chemicals not classified elsewhere | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural) | Synthetic resins and rubber | Transition Metal Chemistry

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