Universities of Oxford and Sussex selected for decarbonisation research funding

Decarbonisation projects from the universities of both Oxford and Sussex have been selected to receive funding from the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC).

Thirteen projects were selected and will each receive funding which is, according to IDRIC, to the tune of £1.2 million.

The funding announced today extends IDRIC’s current programme which is accelerating research through a whole systems approach.

Bryony Livesey, Director, Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge, UKRI: “The new round of funding by IDRIC aligns with the UK Government’s commitment to support and drive Net Zero goals.

''The quality of projects is a testament to IDRIC’s ability to collaborate with high-quality researchers to find meaningful solutions to decarbonising industries in the UK.”

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The Sussex project receiving funding is Global Lessons on Net Zero: Harnessing best practices of industrial decarbonisation for UK clusters. Marfuga Iskandarova is the principal investigator on the project.

Oxford's project is Synergistic process for carbon capture, waste heat recovery and hydrogen production, a project overseen by Dr Binjian Nie.

Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer, Director of IDRIC, said: "IDRIC’s programme has demonstrated that we have the tools to be responsive to industry needs and become an engine of green growth.

''This new round of flex funding will help develop practices that significantly aid the decarbonisation of industry.

“IDRIC’s progress over its two years has been wide-ranging. By integrating findings from across IDRIC’s research portfolio, we are directly informing plans for decarbonisation in some of the UK’s largest industrial clusters and generating collaboration between those clusters and academic research teams local to them.”

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