Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0878979

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0878979

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Transport phenomena in foam fractionation. Foam fractionation has a number of immediate applications in mineral and food processing but its most exciting potential is as low cost alternative for recovering and purifying high value biosurfactants. These are materials used to stabilise interfaces in living systems, and can be used as antibiotics and antiviral agents. The affinity for biosurfactants to collect at an interface suggests that foam fractionation is an ideal process to concentrate valuable products. Clearly, a cost-effective and reliable method of enriching streams of biosurfactants will make their use even more attractive and will engender the development of more novel biomaterials, such as pepfactants.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 31-07-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $475,697.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Other Industrial Biotechnology | Industrial Biotechnology | Fluid Physics | Membrane And Separation Technologies

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Coal | Prevention—biologicals (e.g. vaccines) | Treatments (e.g. chemicals, antibiotics) |

Other Keywords

Coal | Fluid Physics | Industrial Biotechnology | Membrane And Separation Technologies | Other Industrial Biotechnology | Prevention—biologicals (e.g. vaccines) | Treatments (e.g. chemicals, antibiotics)

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