A scientist at Queen’s University in Belfast has developed a way to transform aluminium foil into a material used in biofuel production.
Ahmed Osman, from the university’s School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, led the research – finding a crystallisation method to convert the foil, which often can’t be recycled due to contamination issues, into a potential catalyst for biofuel production. Ahmed extracted ‘100% pure single crystals of aluminium salts’ from the foil, this is the base material for making the alumina catalyst used to develop biofuels.
Image: Ahmed Osman. Credit: Queen's University Belfast
