Projects
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Reservoir engineering of in-situ carbonation: a feasibility study
Project Lead: Overview: Insitu carbonation turns carbon dioxide (CO2) into rock that is permanently stored underground! Insitu carbonation is therefore […]
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Integrating DAC and CO2 mineralisation by enzyme-immobilised nanofibre mat
Project Lead: Overview: The state-of-the-art direct air capture (DAC) technologies are mainly based on liquid absorption and solid adsorption. Desorption […]
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Quantifying the Ocean efficiency for enhanced carbon storage
Project Lead: Overview: The ocean has a huge capacity to store anthropogenic carbon emissions, but the efficiency of ocean storage […]
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Bioreactor for complete CO2 conversion to algae biomass
Project Lead: Overview: Algae capture CO2 through photosynthesis and convert it to biomass, biomass that could be used for long-term […]
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Review paper on the applications of genomics technologies towards ocean based biological carbon capture and nature based solutions
Project Lead: Overview: Biologically based carbon capture methods have the advantage that they can be implemented immediately without the requirement […]
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Mafic/Ultramafic Carbonation Potential Map of Australia
Project Lead: Overview: Utilising mineral carbonation as a solution for permanently locking CO2 on geologic timescales requires knowledge of the […]
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Identifying novel electrochemical pathways for intensified mineral carbonation
Project Lead: Overview: Existing processes for ex-situ mineral carbonation (MC) still rely on conventional chemical reaction methods, in which elevated […]
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Exploring novel gas-liquid contacting concepts for Direct Air Capture
Project Lead: Overview: Capture of CO2 from air (Direct Air Capture – DAC) require capture agents, equipment and processes that […]
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Chemoautotrophic organisms for efficient negative emissions technologies
Project Lead: Overview: Chemoautotrophic microorganisms from some archaeal phylums are known to have the most efficient microbial carbon fixation pathways. […]
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Accelerated Material Discovery Through Machine Learning for Direct Air Capture
Project Lead: Overview: Direct Air Capture (DAC) requires a liquid or solid material that selectively adsorbs carbon dioxide (CO2) from […]