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EPSRC Reference:	EP/D000564/1
Title:	Molecular Metal Oxides for Process Intensification
Principal Investigator:	Lapkin, Professor A
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Project Partners:	University of Glasgow University of Leeds
Department:	Chemical Engineering
Organisation:	University of Bath
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	03 October 2005	Ends:	02 October 2007	Value (£):	62,815
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Catalysis & Applied Catalysis Reactor Engineering
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
Related Grants:	EP/D000513/1 EP/D000645/1
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Summary on Grant Application Form
This discipline hopping project is proposed on the basis of mutual interest of three proposers with a view of building critical mass in developing a novel chemical technology for process intensification; the aim is to establish a substantial long term collaboration that bridges the chemistry-chemical engineering interface and will have the value-added effect of pump-priming some new areas of research of both academic and industrial relevance. The three proposers have a strong desire to learn from each other's expertise, stimulated by the recent EPSRC event aimed at interfacing Chemical Engineering and Chemistry. The project is using several significant research problems, unified in the envisaged sustainable chemical processing technology, as a vehicle for developing closer interdisciplinary links. The individual research problems are associated with the developing Friedel-Crafts catalysts stable to product inhibition, synthesis of monodisperse nanoparticles on a reasonable scale, stabilisation of nanoparticles to enable their use in processing, and development of reactors incorporating feedback catalysts. The project also places a particular emphasis on knowledge transfer, which should potentially lead to very fruitful future collaborations beyond its own remit and time span, since materials development, nanotechnology and sustainable processes/products are widely accepted as the areas of research that could lead to most dramatic influences on the development of ultimately sustainable society.
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