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Project explores low cost carbon fibre production

Southern Research is part of a team exploring clean, cost-efficient approaches of producing carbon fibre from coal and other sources.

Southern Research’s Amit Goyal, right, spearheaded the development of a process that could lead to low cost carbon fibre from biomass. © Southern Research

4th September 2017

Innovation in Textiles
| Birmingham, AL

Transport/Aerospace

Southern Research’s Energy & Environment division (E&E) will participate as a subcontractor to WRI to provide renewable acrylonitrile — the key raw material needed to produce the high quality carbon fibres — produced from biomass-derived second generation sugars.

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