Prof. Akshat Tanksale
Akshat is a group leader in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Monash University, the Carbon Theme leader at the Woodside Monash Energy Partnership and the Deputy Director of ARC Research Hub for Carbon Utilisation and Recycling.
He has pioneered work on Reactive Flash Volatilisation of biomass into hydrogen rich syngas, and CO2 conversion into C1-C2 bulk chemicals such as syngas, formaldehyde and its derivatives, formic acid and acetic acid.
He is a lead inventor on two patents on Reactive Flash Volatilisation, three patents on CO2 conversion, in addition to two other patents on circular economy.
Akshat’s area of expertise is heterogeneous catalysis, nanoporous materials, reaction engineering and green chemistry. He currently leads projects with Woodside and other industry partners on CO2 capture and carbon conversion, using heterogeneous and plasmonic catalysis. He is also one of the academic supervisors of the student team, Monash Carbon Capture and Conversion (MC3) which recently won the US$250,000 XPrize Carbon Removal student competition.
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