Projects
The demand of the modern world means there is a large drive for clean, efficient and cost-effective methods for chemical manufacture, pollution control, fuel cells and energy. Such applications are estimated to be worth around £700 billion worldwide.
The need, therefore, for catalysis in the modern world has never been so important, with the application of catalysis crucial to the development of economically and environmentally sustainable manufacturing processes.
Research within the CCI covers a wide variety of areas, including the design and improvement of new catalysts and processes relevant to, but not limited to, the fine chemical, petrochemical and automotive industries. Further details of projects will appear on these pages shortly.
Photo-catalytic materials for the destruction of recalcitrant organic industrial waste
Coordinators: Philip R. Davies & Karen Wilson
Web Site: http://www.pcatdes.eu/default.asp
CCI staff Phil Davies & Karen Wilson have put together a cross disciplinary team of scientists and engineers from teams based in Britain, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand to successfully bid for approximately €3.9 million of EU funding to develop a cost effective and sustainable, solar powered method for mineralising the recalcitrant organic pollutants that biological methods cannot remove from the waste water produced in agricultural industries.
Scarcity and misuse of fresh water pose a growing threat to sustainable global development and it is abundantly clear that the protection of ecosystems and the environment in the 21st century requires more effective management of water and land resources.
Organic pollutants from the agricultural (e.g. olive oil, palm oil and sugar cane) and seafood industries are of particular concern as these enterprises are frequently in remote locations making most current individual on-site treatment options unaffordable.
