A three-year programme brings together researchers from the University of Cambridge, the University of California, Berkeley, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to develop ways of transforming carbon dioxide (CO₂) emitted as part of the industrial process into compounds that are useful in the chemical industry supply chain.
- Professors Alexei Lapkin (CARES) and Joel Ager (BEARS)
The aim of the eCO₂EP project is to produce a “table-top chemical factory” that uses electrochemical processes to convert CO₂ into ethylene or to 1-propanol – two molecular products widely used in the chemical industry.
See more information on the project on the CARES website.
- Kick-off meeting
CARES and BEARS are part of the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), based in NUS’s University Town area. Now celebrating the 10th anniversary of its formal establishment, CREATE was set up by the government of Singapore to be a hub of interdisciplinary research for scientists collaborating to address problems of environmental, urban and energy sustainability. Other universities with research centres in CREATE are ETH Zurich, MIT, TU Munich, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
CARES, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Cambridge, hosts a number of research collaborations between the University of Cambridge, NTU, NUS and various industrial partners. Its flagship Cambridge Centre for Carbon Reduction in Chemical Technology (C4T) is a partnership between Cambridge and Singapore to measure and reduce the carbon footprint of the integrated petro-chemical plants and electrical network on Singapore’s Jurong Island. It brings together researchers from Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Information Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Metallurgy.
