Nano-structured Catalysts for CO2 Transformation to Fuels and Products
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Chemistry
Abstract
This project will develop new nanometre-sized catalysts and (electro-) chemical processes for producing fuels, including methanol, methane, gasoline and diesel, and chemical products from waste carbon dioxide. It builds upon a successful first phase in which a new, highly controlled nanoparticle catalyst was developed and used to produce methanol from carbon dioxide; the reaction is a pertinent example of the production of a liquid fuel and chemical feedstock. In addition, we developed high temperature electrochemical reactions and reactors for the production of 'synthesis gas' (carbon monoxide and hydrogen) and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water. In this second phase of the project, we shall extend the production of fuels to include methanol, methane, gasoline and diesel, by integrating suitably complementary processes, using energy from renewable sources or off-peak electricity. The latter option is particularly attractive as a means to manage electricity loads as more renewables are integrated with the national power grid. In parallel, we will apply our new nanocatalysts to enable the copolymerization of carbon dioxide with epoxides to produce polycarbonate polyols, components of home insulation foams (polyurethanes). The approach is both commercially and environmentally attractive due to the replacement of 30-50% of the usual petrochemical carbon source (the epoxide) with carbon dioxide, and may be commercialised in the relatively near term. These copolymers are valuable products in their own right and provide a commercial-scale proving ground for the technology, before addressing integration into the larger scale challenges of fuel production and energy management.
The programme will continue to improve our catalyst performance and our understanding, to enable carbon dioxide transformations to a range of valuable products. The work will be coupled with a comprehensive process systems analysis in order to develop the most practical and valuable routes to implementation. Our goal is to continue to build on our existing promising results to advance the technology towards commercialisation; the research programme will focus on:
1) Catalyst optimization and scale-up so as to maximise the activities and selectivities for target products.
2) Development and optimization of the process conditions and engineering for the nanocatalysts, including testing and modelling new reactor designs.
3) Process integration and engineering to enable tandem catalyses and efficient generation of renewable fuels, including integration with renewable energy generation taking advantage of off-peak electrical power availability.
4) Detailed economic, energetic, environmental and life cycle analysis of the processes.
We will work closely with industrial partners to ensure that the technologies are practical and that key potential impediments to application are addressed. We have a team of seven companies which form our industrial advisory board, representing stakeholders from across the value chain, including: E.On, National Grid, Linde, Johnson Matthey, Simon Carves, Econic Technologies, and Shell.
The programme will continue to improve our catalyst performance and our understanding, to enable carbon dioxide transformations to a range of valuable products. The work will be coupled with a comprehensive process systems analysis in order to develop the most practical and valuable routes to implementation. Our goal is to continue to build on our existing promising results to advance the technology towards commercialisation; the research programme will focus on:
1) Catalyst optimization and scale-up so as to maximise the activities and selectivities for target products.
2) Development and optimization of the process conditions and engineering for the nanocatalysts, including testing and modelling new reactor designs.
3) Process integration and engineering to enable tandem catalyses and efficient generation of renewable fuels, including integration with renewable energy generation taking advantage of off-peak electrical power availability.
4) Detailed economic, energetic, environmental and life cycle analysis of the processes.
We will work closely with industrial partners to ensure that the technologies are practical and that key potential impediments to application are addressed. We have a team of seven companies which form our industrial advisory board, representing stakeholders from across the value chain, including: E.On, National Grid, Linde, Johnson Matthey, Simon Carves, Econic Technologies, and Shell.
Planned Impact
There is intense interest in devising uses for carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by power generation, steel and cement production, etc. for economically and environmentally useful purposes, both to decrease emission rates and to offset costs of carbon capture systems by converting captured CO2 into useful products. The challenges are two-fold: how to develop catalysts that activate relatively inert CO2, and how to provide the necessary energy to drive such reactions. Our proposed programme will design and scale up novel yet realistic chemical conversion processes for the conversion of CO2 to useful fuels and chemicals. Specifically, within the current project, the fuels will include methanol, methane, , dimethyl ether (DME), diesel and gasoline, whilst the chemicals will focus on controlled molecular weight distribution polycarbonate polyols suitable for polyurethane manufacturing.
These two strands share many common technological aspects, but have different characteristics and timescales for implementation. Polycarbonates (3 Mtonnes/year) and polyols for polyurethanes (4 Mtonnes/year) are important and valuable industrial products, but their scale is, of course, dwarfed by fuel production and electrical energy generation. On the other hand, the incorporation of CO2 in such polymers is relatively easy to implement, as the CO2 displaces a significant fraction of the existing, expensive, petrochemical monomer, whilst the remaining monomer has sufficient reactivity to drive the reaction without further energy input. These polymer conversion processes will be enhanced by the project and will provide a test-bed for proving the catalyst technology and methods of integration with industrial CO2 waste streams (now feedstocks). The experience derived will help to develop the more complex processes for producing fuels that require energy inputs from off-peak electricity, a resource increasingly associated with renewable energy sources for which supply is hard to match to demand. The project includes detailed analysis of the techno-economic aspects of the many options to identify and optimise the most promising processes and operating conditions.
Successful implantation of CO2 conversion processes will be benefit a wide variety of UK and multi-national stakeholders, including chemical companies, catalyst and process equipment manufacturers, energy companies, consumer goods manufacturers and ultimately UK consumers, who will eventually reap both financial and environmental benefits. By providing an efficient economic use for spare generating capacity, renewable electricity generation will become increasingly favourable; at the same time, a new range of low carbon products will be produced to displace petrochemically-derived incumbents, reducing net green house gas emissions and improving energy security. These new product families will support exports, attract inward investment, and help to create jobs and revenue, as well as enhancing the UK's reputation in the field. The project will both contribute towards environmental sustainability, and enhance the capacity of UK industry in this growing field. As energy prices continue to rise, efficient use of petrochemicals and increased use of renewables will become increasingly important for economic competitiveness, as will a strong industrial base in enabling technologies.
The project bridges between chemistry and chemical engineering, bringing together new catalyst synthesis and in situ characterisation techniques with process design and integration; it will provide new scientific knowledge, new methodologies, and high skilled trained researchers who will drive future developments in this field in both academic and industrial contexts. Most of the commercial stakeholder groups are represented by our project partners, providing a ready source of data and advice to guide the research programme, and the relevant expertise to drive the next phase of development, deployment and exploitation.
These two strands share many common technological aspects, but have different characteristics and timescales for implementation. Polycarbonates (3 Mtonnes/year) and polyols for polyurethanes (4 Mtonnes/year) are important and valuable industrial products, but their scale is, of course, dwarfed by fuel production and electrical energy generation. On the other hand, the incorporation of CO2 in such polymers is relatively easy to implement, as the CO2 displaces a significant fraction of the existing, expensive, petrochemical monomer, whilst the remaining monomer has sufficient reactivity to drive the reaction without further energy input. These polymer conversion processes will be enhanced by the project and will provide a test-bed for proving the catalyst technology and methods of integration with industrial CO2 waste streams (now feedstocks). The experience derived will help to develop the more complex processes for producing fuels that require energy inputs from off-peak electricity, a resource increasingly associated with renewable energy sources for which supply is hard to match to demand. The project includes detailed analysis of the techno-economic aspects of the many options to identify and optimise the most promising processes and operating conditions.
Successful implantation of CO2 conversion processes will be benefit a wide variety of UK and multi-national stakeholders, including chemical companies, catalyst and process equipment manufacturers, energy companies, consumer goods manufacturers and ultimately UK consumers, who will eventually reap both financial and environmental benefits. By providing an efficient economic use for spare generating capacity, renewable electricity generation will become increasingly favourable; at the same time, a new range of low carbon products will be produced to displace petrochemically-derived incumbents, reducing net green house gas emissions and improving energy security. These new product families will support exports, attract inward investment, and help to create jobs and revenue, as well as enhancing the UK's reputation in the field. The project will both contribute towards environmental sustainability, and enhance the capacity of UK industry in this growing field. As energy prices continue to rise, efficient use of petrochemicals and increased use of renewables will become increasingly important for economic competitiveness, as will a strong industrial base in enabling technologies.
The project bridges between chemistry and chemical engineering, bringing together new catalyst synthesis and in situ characterisation techniques with process design and integration; it will provide new scientific knowledge, new methodologies, and high skilled trained researchers who will drive future developments in this field in both academic and industrial contexts. Most of the commercial stakeholder groups are represented by our project partners, providing a ready source of data and advice to guide the research programme, and the relevant expertise to drive the next phase of development, deployment and exploitation.
Organisations
- Imperial College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- University of Minnesota (Collaboration)
- Penn State University (Collaboration)
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- Shell International Petroleum (Collaboration)
- Research Complex at Harwell (Collaboration)
- Eindhoven University of Technology (Collaboration)
- Shell (Netherlands) (Project Partner)
- Econic Technologies Ltd (Project Partner)
- Linde (Germany) (Project Partner)
- E.ON (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Simon-Carves Ltd (Project Partner)
- Johnson Matthey (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Climate KIC UK (Project Partner)
Publications
Bakewell C
(2015)
Comparing a series of 8-quinolinolato complexes of aluminium, titanium and zinc as initiators for the ring-opening polymerization of rac-lactide.
in Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
Bakewell C
(2014)
Metal-size influence in iso-selective lactide polymerization.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Bakewell C
(2013)
8-Quinolinolato gallium complexes: iso-selective initiators for rac-lactide polymerization.
in Inorganic chemistry
Bakewell C
(2015)
Scandium and yttrium phosphasalen complexes as initiators for ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters.
in Inorganic chemistry
Brown N
(2015)
From Organometallic Zinc and Copper Complexes to Highly Active Colloidal Catalysts for the Conversion of CO 2 to Methanol
in ACS Catalysis
Brown NJ
(2013)
Phosphinate stabilised ZnO and Cu colloidal nanocatalysts for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol.
in Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
Brown NJ
(2014)
Mononuclear Phenolate Diamine Zinc Hydride Complexes and Their Reactions With CO2.
in Organometallics
Chapman A
(2015)
Adding Value to Power Station Captured CO 2 : Tolerant Zn and Mg Homogeneous Catalysts for Polycarbonate Polyol Production
in ACS Catalysis
Cheng C
(2013)
Reduction of CO2 to CO at Cu-ceria-gadolinia (CGO) cathode in solid oxide electrolyser
in Journal of Applied Electrochemistry
Farandos N
(2016)
Three-dimensional Inkjet Printed Solid Oxide Electrochemical Reactors. I. Yttria-stabilized Zirconia Electrolyte
in Electrochimica Acta
García-Trenco A
(2017)
Pd 2 Ga-Based Colloids as Highly Active Catalysts for the Hydrogenation of CO 2 to Methanol
in ACS Catalysis
García-Trenco A
(2016)
A one-step Cu/ZnO quasi-homogeneous catalyst for DME production from syn-gas
in Catalysis Science & Technology
García-Trenco A
(2018)
PdIn intermetallic nanoparticles for the Hydrogenation of CO2 to Methanol
in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
Garden JA
(2017)
Heterodinuclear titanium/zinc catalysis: synthesis, characterization and activity for CO2/epoxide copolymerization and cyclic ester polymerization.
in Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
Garden JA
(2015)
Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: A Heterodinuclear Polymerization Catalyst.
in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Hankin A
(2014)
Constraints to the flat band potential of hematite photo-electrodes.
in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Hankin A
(2017)
Process exploration and assessment for the production of methanol and dimethyl ether from carbon dioxide and water
in Sustainable Energy & Fuels
Kennedy O
(2018)
MBE growth and morphology control of ZnO nanobelts with polar axis perpendicular to growth direction
in Materials Letters
Kennedy OW
(2019)
Mapping the Origins of Luminescence in ZnO Nanowires by STEM-CL.
in The journal of physical chemistry letters
Kennedy OW
(2019)
Vapour-liquid-solid growth of ZnO-ZnMgO core-shell nanowires by gold-catalysed molecular beam epitaxy.
in Nanotechnology
Kleiminger L
(2015)
Syngas (CO-H 2 ) production using high temperature micro-tubular solid oxide electrolysers
in Electrochimica Acta
Kleiminger L
(2014)
CO 2 splitting into CO and O 2 in micro-tubular solid oxide electrolysers
in RSC Adv.
Leung A
(2020)
Cu/M:ZnO (M = Mg, Al, Cu) colloidal nanocatalysts for the solution hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol
in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Leung AHM
(2018)
Layered zinc hydroxide monolayers by hydrolysis of organozincs.
in Chemical science
Montrikittiphant T
(2014)
Bacterial cellulose nanopaper as reinforcement for polylactide composites: renewable thermoplastic NanoPaPreg.
in Macromolecular rapid communications
Myers D
(2017)
Phosphasalen Indium Complexes Showing High Rates and Isoselectivities in rac-Lactide Polymerizations.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Myers D
(2016)
Polymer synthesis: To react the impossible ring.
in Nature chemistry
Myers D
(2017)
Phosphasalen Indium Complexes Showing High Rates and Isoselectivities in rac -Lactide Polymerizations
in Angewandte Chemie
Noimark S
(2015)
Dual-Mechanism Antimicrobial Polymer-ZnO Nanoparticle and Crystal Violet-Encapsulated Silicone
in Advanced Functional Materials
Paul S
(2015)
Ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP): synthesis and properties of polyesters and polycarbonates.
in Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
Paul S
(2015)
Sequence Selective Polymerization Catalysis: A New Route to ABA Block Copoly(ester- b -carbonate- b -ester)
in Macromolecules
Pike S
(2017)
Colloidal Cu/ZnO catalysts for the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol: investigating catalyst preparation and ligand effects
in Catalysis Science & Technology
Pike SD
(2016)
Simple phosphinate ligands access zinc clusters identified in the synthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles.
in Nature communications
Pike SD
(2017)
Reversible Redox Cycling of Well-Defined, Ultrasmall Cu/Cu2O Nanoparticles.
in ACS nano
Romain C
(2015)
Macrocyclic Dizinc(II) Alkyl and Alkoxide Complexes: Reversible CO2 Uptake and Polymerization Catalysis Testing.
in Inorganic chemistry
Romain C
(2016)
Chemoselective Polymerizations from Mixtures of Epoxide, Lactone, Anhydride, and Carbon Dioxide.
in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Romain C
(2017)
Di-Zinc-Aryl Complexes: CO2 Insertions and Applications in Polymerisation Catalysis.
in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Romain DC
(2014)
Chemoselective polymerization control: from mixed-monomer feedstock to copolymers.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Saini P
(2014)
Di-magnesium and zinc catalysts for the copolymerization of phthalic anhydride and cyclohexene oxide
in Polym. Chem.
Saini PK
(2017)
Zinc versus Magnesium: Orthogonal Catalyst Reactivity in Selective Polymerizations of Epoxides, Bio-derived Anhydrides and Carbon Dioxide.
in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Saini PK
(2014)
Dinuclear metal catalysts: improved performance of heterodinuclear mixed catalysts for CO2-epoxide copolymerization.
in Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
Silverwood IP
(2014)
An attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR FT-IR) spectroscopic study of gas adsorption on colloidal stearate-capped ZnO catalyst substrate.
in Applied spectroscopy
Stößer T
(2017)
Bio-derived polymers for coating applications: comparing poly(limonene carbonate) and poly(cyclohexadiene carbonate)
in Polymer Chemistry
Thevenon A
(2015)
Dinuclear Zinc Salen Catalysts for the Ring Opening Copolymerization of Epoxides and Carbon Dioxide or Anhydrides.
in Inorganic chemistry
Thevenon A
(2015)
Dinuclear Zinc Salen Catalysts for the Ring Opening Copolymerization of Epoxides and Carbon Dioxide or Anhydrides
in Inorganic Chemistry
Thevenon A
(2016)
Dizinc Lactide Polymerization Catalysts: Hyperactivity by Control of Ligand Conformation and Metallic Cooperativity
in Angewandte Chemie
Thevenon A
(2018)
Indium Catalysts for Low-Pressure CO2/Epoxide Ring-Opening Copolymerization: Evidence for a Mononuclear Mechanism?
in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Thevenon A
(2016)
Dizinc Lactide Polymerization Catalysts: Hyperactivity by Control of Ligand Conformation and Metallic Cooperativity.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
| Description | We have demonstrated that it is technically possible to develop new catalysts to convert carbon dioxide to useful fuels and chemicals such as methanol and polycarbonate polymers. This provides a value chain for CO2 and encourages its capture and re-use. We have also performed economic analyses of these processes. |
| Exploitation Route | The processes can be scaled up to be evaluated at pilot scale. |
| Sectors | Chemicals,Energy |
| Description | they have supported engagement with BEIS on carbon capture and utilisation and formed input to a key report. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Chemicals |
| Impact Types | Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | BEIS - CCU |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Supporting evidence for policy in carbon dioxide utilisation. |
| Description | Shell |
| Amount | £120,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Shell International Petroleum |
| Department | Shell UK Ltd |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2017 |
| End | 07/2018 |
| Description | Solar fuels - optimisation of the options |
| Amount | £120,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Shell Global Solutions International BV |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 02/2021 |
| Description | Collaboration to study the properties of polymers from carbon dioxide |
| Organisation | University of Minnesota |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A collaboration to study the properties (mechanical) of polymers from carbon dioxide/epoxide and ring-opening copolymerizations Our contribution is the preparation of the polymers and the catalytic method. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are expert in materials characterization |
| Impact | A publication is in progress |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Collaboration with Prof. Micheal Meier, KIT, Germany: biobased polymers |
| Organisation | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A collaboration to investigate new biobased polymers was started in 2014. It involved a secondment of Mr Mathias Winkler to our labs in London and resulted in a publication (Green CHemistry, 2014) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners: prepared a new monomer Us: discovered how to polymerize the monomer and to prepare new bio-based polymers |
| Impact | Publication: "Renewable polycarbonates and polyesters from 1,4-cyclohexadiene." Winkler, M.; Romain, C.; Meier, M. A. R.; Williams, C. K. Green Chemistry 2014. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Collaboration with Professor Cor Koning to evaluate coating applicaitons |
| Organisation | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The collaboration is to apply our carbon dioxide derived polymers to prepare new coatings. Our group prepare the polymers |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner is an expert in coating fabrication and in testing of properties |
| Impact | Publications in preparation |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Collaboration with Professor Robert Mathers, Penn State University |
| Organisation | Penn State University |
| Department | Department of Chemistry |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have tested new bio-derived monomers in CO2 epoxide copolymerizations. The monomers behave well and give high thermal resistance materials. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner has prepared the new monomer from terpenes |
| Impact | Publication in preparation |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Harwell research complex |
| Organisation | Research Complex at Harwell |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We have been allocated beam time for EXAFS and XANES measurements on our catalysts at the research complex at Harwell (national facility). This has allowed detailed catalyst characterization experiments to be run. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are experts in EXAFS and XANES |
| Impact | publication: Brown, N. J.; Garcia-Trenco, A.; Weiner, J.; White, E. R.; Allinson, M.; Chen, Y.; Wells, P. P.; Gibson, E. K.; Hellgardt, K.; Shaffer, M. S. P.; Williams, C. K. ACS Catalysis 2015, 5, 2895-2902. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Shell |
| Organisation | Shell International Petroleum |
| Department | Shell UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of new approaches to designing CO2 utilisation systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of data |
| Impact | A new proposal |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | ZnO nanoparticles for Antimicrobial applications, collaboration with Ivan Parkin (UCL) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Department of Chemistry |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have used the nanoparticles developed for catalysis in a new collaboration with Chemistry (Ivan Parkin), Physics (Sandy McRobert) and Micro-Biology (Elaine Allan) at UCL. The particles are used to prepare new photoactive antimicrobial polymers, including hospital tubing, which when activated by visible light results in destruction of common bacteria (including resistant wild-type strains). The particles show high efficacy and promise in this application. our contribution is to synthesise the particles and characterize them |
| Collaborator Contribution | Antimicrobial testing, bio-physics and extensive experience of material formulation. |
| Impact | A paper has been published: Noimark, S.; Weiner, J.; Noor, N.; Allan, E.; Williams, C. K.; Shaffer, M. S. P.; Parkin, I. P. Advanced Functional Materials 2015, 25, 1367-1373. More publications are in preparation. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Title | METHOD OF SYNTHESISING POLYCARBONATES IN THE PRESENCE OF A BIMETALLIC CATALYST AND A CHAIN TRANSFER AGENT |
| Description | The invention provides a process for the synthesis of a polycarbonate, the process comprising the step of reacting carbon dioxide with at least one epoxide in the presence of a catalyst of formula (I) and a chain transfer agent. The invention also provides a polymerisation system for the copolymerisation of carbon dioxide and at least one epoxide comprising a catalyst of formula (I) and a chain transfer agent, polycarbonates produced by the inventive process, a block copolymer comprising a polycarbonate produced by the inventive process and a method of producing the same. The invention also relates to novel catalysts of formula (III). |
| IP Reference | WO2013034750 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2013 |
| Licensed | Yes |
| Impact | COMMERCIALLY SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT LICENSED TO ECONIC TECHNOLOGIES |
| Title | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING NANOPARTICLES |
| Description | This invention relates to a process for the preparation of surface-functionalised metal oxide, metal sulphide, metal selenide or metal telluride nanoparticles, a process for the preparation of a composite material comprising such nanoparticles, nanoparticles and a composite material produced thereby, the use of such nanoparticles in catalysis and a catalyst comprising such nanoparticles. |
| IP Reference | WO2013164650 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2013 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | LICENSE DISCUSSIONS UNDERWAY WITH INTERESTED PARTIES |
| Company Name | econic technologies |
| Description | see company website for more information: http://www.econic-technologies.com/ polymers from CO2 |
| Year Established | 2011 |
| Impact | see website |
| Website | http://www.econic-technologies.com/ |
| Description | 250th American Chemical Society and Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Three lectures were given at the ACS meeting in Boston by the Williams group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | 8th Workshop on Fats and Oils as Renewable Feedstock for the Chemical Industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | keynote lecture at the meeting in Karlsruhe Germany |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Bio-Environmental Polymer Society BEPS 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote lecture at the BEPS 2015 in Karlsruhe |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Carbon Dioxide Utilization, Farady Discussion Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture and paper at the Faraday Meeting Sheffield |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Catalysis Improving Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lecture at the Royal Society Meeting and subsequent Satellite Meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Conference International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Garcia trenco lectured at the conference in Singapore |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Conference: Advanced Complex Inorganic Nanomaterials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given by Dr Seb Pike at the conference in Belgium |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Congrès 2015 de la Société Chimique de France |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited (keynote) lecture at the SCF in Lille |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Dalton Young Researchers Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Pike lectured on his research at the conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Demonstration Lecture at Lowther School Summer Fair - It's all about science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Lecture given at the summer fair of a local primary school - lots of enthusiasm from parents and children see above |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Frontiers in Green Materials Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 2 lectures at the symposium in London and posters to present our findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Gordon Research Conference: Organometallic Chemistry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Two posters presented at the GRC and GRS (lecture) in USA in 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Imperial College Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The Williams group ran an interactive 'stall' at the imperial college festival. We demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be transformed into products using a series of show-case examples, experiments and hands-on demonstrations for the general public. The total participation at the festival was 15,000 people. we also participated in a special 'schools' event just before the festival opened where we demonstrated our science to primary school children |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Invited Keynote lecture at Canadian Chemistry Congress Quebec City (Green Chemistry) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Interview with a journalist Collaborations Academic discussions Discussions with companies See above |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.csc2013.ca/ |
| Description | Invited and keynote lecture at 21 st Bioenvironmental Polymer Society Conference (Warwick) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Discussions with academics and industrialists New collaboration formed with Michael Meier which resulted in a research exchange of Dr Mathias Winkler to Imperial College in 2014 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.beps.org/warwick.html |
| Description | Invited lecture at 10th IUPAC International Conference on Advanced Polymers via Macromolecular Engineering (Durham); |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | New collaborations with academics in Sweden discussions see above |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.iupac.org/publications/ci/2012/3405/ca4_18.08.13.html |
| Description | Keynote lecture at Macro Group Young Researcher's Symposium, Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Discussions with students New applications to my research group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.macrogroup.org.uk/meeting/ |
| Description | Lecture at Sustainable Polymers Conference (ACS and RSC co-organising) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Discussion and new collaborations formed (Stefan Mecking, germany). Raised academic profile of the group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://polyacs.net/Workshops/13sustainable/program.htm |
| Description | Lecture at the graduate school professional skills course for Imperial College London and MIT PG students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Discussions about an academic career and about entrepreneurship see above |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Outreach lecture at primary school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Lecture with demonstrations to primary school children - KS 1 Children very much enjoyed the visit and expressed an enthusiasm to study science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Presentation at the American Chemical Society National Meeting special symposium on Green Polymer Chemistry: Biobased Materials and Biocatalysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Discussions with industrialists and academics Book Chapter written in collaboration with other speakers - for the ACS symposium series New collaborations likely Invitations to collaborate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://abstracts.acs.org/chem/248nm/meetingview.php?page=session&par_id=713 |
| Description | RSC Main Group Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lecture at the conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | The Science behind CO2 Capture and Conversion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | invited lecture at the conference in Cuba |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | UK Catalysis Conference 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the Uk Catalysis Conference, 2016, Loughborough |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Uk Catlaysis Conference 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Garcia Trenco gave a lecture at the conference in 2015 in Loughborough |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |