MONASH CARBON CAPTURE AND CONVERSION WON THE XPRIZE CARBON REMOVAL STUDENT AWARD

We are proud to announce that the Monash Carbon Capture and Conversion (MC³) student team is one of the 23 student-led teams to receive the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Student Award. Our team has successfully secured a funding of $250,000 USD from the Musk Foundation to create a solution that can pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere or oceans and store it away permanently in an environmental way.

MC³ was established in April 2021 to analyse and produce lasting technical solutions to facilitate carbon capture and conversion to reduce the expected catastrophic outcomes of climate change in the future. The team proposed to use biologically-assisted carbon capture and conversion methods to trap carbon dioxide from the ocean and air via artificial forestry and microalgae cultures in novel designed floating photobioreactors. The biomass produced from these carbon farms will then be utilised downstream, powered by bioenergy, in their transformation into cross-laminated timber, for sustainable buildings, and biochar, a charcoal that can be used for soil amendment.

MC³ comprises of students from both the Melbourne and Malaysia campuses. The student consortium from Monash University Malaysia that is a part of the MC³ team are Sinn Yen Heng (4^th year undergraduate student), Kavindya Liyanage (2^nd year undergraduate student) and Izaac Chong (1^st year undergraduate student), Yi An Lim (2^nd year PhD student) and Joshia Christa Pradana (1^st year Master student).

For more information about the Monash Carbon Capture and Conversion, please visit https://www.facebook.com/MonashCarbonCaptureConversion