Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0987166

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0987166

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Renewable fuels and chemicals from fibrous organic waste and non-food crops. At current rates of resource usage, a world population with Australian standards of living would require between four and six planets. Solutions to existing and impending resource scarcity (water, power, chemical feedstocks) and associated greenhouse pollution are required in the short- to medium-term. The new catalysts and processes and their novel integration into an effective refining stream are designed to deliver the required breakthroughs, which will enable the broad adoption of lignocellulosic biomass for a sustainable solution. This is a major opportunity for Australia to address the fossil-fuel conundrum, and to show scientific leadership in an area that is set to drive economic and political change in the 21st century.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 09-04-2009

End Date: 08-04-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $430,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Industrial Chemistry | Inorganic Chemistry Not Elsewhere Classified | Chemistry Of Catalysis | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Organic industrial chemicals not classified elsewhere | Renewable energy | Chemical sciences |

Other Keywords

Chemical sciences | Chemistry Of Catalysis | Industrial Chemistry | Inorganic Chemistry Not Elsewhere Classified | Organic industrial chemicals not classified elsewhere | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural) | Renewable energy

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