Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0988907

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0988907

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Fires of pesticides: New source of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/F) in the environment. This project will quantify the emission of carcinogenic pollutants, produced as a consequence of intended and unintended combustion of pesticides and pesticide-contaminated biomass. The project will identify specific pesticides and agricultural practices (such as burning of sugar cane prior to harvest or burning biomass contaminated with pesticides for energy recovery) which may become regulated in Australia. The research will benefit Australia socially, by reducing the emissions of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans and thus protecting the environment and the population, and economically by identifying pesticides that do not produce pollutants in combustion processes and thus do not contaminate biomass intended for energy recovery.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 31-12-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $560,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Chemical Engineering | Chemical Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified | Mechanisms Of Reactions | Environmental Chemistry (Incl. Atmospheric Chemistry)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Agricultural chemicals | Renewable energy |

Other Keywords

Agricultural chemicals | Chemical Engineering | Chemical Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified | Environmental Chemistry (Incl. Atmospheric Chemistry) | Mechanisms Of Reactions | Renewable energy

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