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Research project

ECOFUEL - Marie Curie IRSES

Staff

Lead researcher

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Research interests

  • Controlled anaerobic and aerobic biodegradation of municipal and industrial solid wastes
  • Concepts for an integrated farming system for non competitive food and fuel production
  • Energy production from digestion of crops and agricultural wastes
Connect with Charles

Email: C.J.Banks@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

The performance efficiency of bioaugmentation to prevent anaerobic digestion failure from ammonia and propionate inhibition
Ying Li, Yue Zhang, Yongming Sun, Shubiao Wu, Xiaoying Kong, Zhenhong Yuan & Renjie Dong, 2017, Bioresource Technology, 231, 94-100
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.01.068
Type: article
An in-depth understanding of the bimetallic effects and coked carbon species on an active bimetallic Ni(Co)/Al2O3 dry reforming catalyst
Xin Liao, Rihards Gerdts, Stewart F. Parker, Lina Chi, Yongxiang Zhao, Martyn Hill, Junqiu Guo, Martin O. Jones & Zheng Jiang, 2016, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18(26), 17311-17319
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP01089J
Type: article
Recent advances in visible-light-driven photoelectrochemical water splitting: catalyst nanostructures and reaction systems
Xiaoping Chen, Zhixiang Zhang, Lina Chi, Aathira Krishnadas Nair, Wenfeng Shangguan & Zheng Jiang, 2016, Nano-Micro Letters, 8(1), 1-12
DOI: 10.1007/s40820-015-0063-3
Type: article
Visible-light photocatalysis on C-doped ZnO derived from polymer-assisted pyrolysis
Ahmad Alshammari, Lina Chi, Xiaoping Chen, Abdulaziz Bagabas, Nazanin Rashidi-Alavijeh, Denis Kramer, Abdulaziz Alromaeh & Zheng Jiang, 2015, RSC Advances, 5, 27690-27698
DOI: 10.1039/C4RA17227B
Type: article
Highly efficient Ni/CeO2 catalyst for the liquid phase hydrogenation of maleic anhydride
Xin Liao, Yin Zhang, M. Hill, Xin Xia, Yongxiang Zhao & Zheng Jiang, 2014, Applied Catalysis A General, 488, 256-264
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcata.2014.09.042
Type: article