Researchers given funding to help reduce emissions

Loughborough University is among 14 research institutions to receive funding from the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) to support innovative work to reduce carbon emissions.

The IDRIC has awarded nearly £6m to 20 projects across those institutions to support the reduction of carbon emissions in the UK’s largest industrial clusters.

Loughborough’s Department of Chemical Engineering is leading a project that will revolutionise industrial algae technologies, titled “Algae-based carbon capture and utilisation for UK cluster decarbonisation”.

Project lead Dr Jonathan Wagner (pictured) said: “We will develop a new process for algaebased carbon capture from industrial processes that eliminates the temporal and spatial limitations of current algae technologies.

“We are excited to work with IDRIC and stakeholders across the seven clusters to develop a demonstration study for this new process.”