Adaptive Carbon Dioxide Capture and Utilisation Technology for Sustainable Biogas Upgrading
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- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
- Application deadline
- 9 October 2026
About the project
About the Project Anaerobic digestion technology plays a pivotal role in delivering the global clean energy transition to low-carbon fuels like hydrogen and methane from biomass. Anaerobic digestion is a natural process where microorganisms that thrive under limited, or no oxygen supply feed on organic materials, including wastes, causing such materials to structurally break down into simpler materials, producing an energy dense gas known as biogas. The anaerobic digestion process involves a number of biochemical reactions taking place in sequential and parallel paths by a complex consortium of microorganisms. These thermodynamic interactions influence the release of hydrogen and its availability for use towards methane production. Therefore, the anaerobic digestion technology can be adapted for either hydrogen or methane production, or both, which makes it a unique technology to meet different end use targets. Depending on the organic waste characteristic and anaerobic digestion operating conditions, the generated hydrogen and/or methane gas could also contain carbon dioxide and other impurities, which need to be removed to improve the energy yield. This project will explore low cost, nature based methods to improve the quality of biogas to increase its applicability and enable the widespread adoption of anaerobic digestion across developing and developed economies.