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Steven Cobb and his team awarded a Gates Foundation grant

(21 November 2011)

An interdisciplinary research team led by Dr Steven Cobb, involving the University of Manchester and Imperial College London, has been awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project titled "Something from Nothing: Developing Technologies for Energy Recovery from Sewage Waste" will design a novel technology that will have the ability to convert fecal sludge into hydrogen, a usable fuel source.

More details are found in

http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/pubs/mags/connect/2012/85/Pages/physicalsciencesworkshop.aspx