P005118 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2012-06-01 human Christine Moje updated 2025-10-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005118b.htm person Barton Allan Francis Murray AM AACR2 Chemist Allan Barton had a key role in the establishment of the Oil Mallee Company, following his research into the properties of eucalyptus oil, particularly cineole, in the early 1980s. He has been teaching at Murdoch University, Western Australia, including resources recycling and forensic science, inorganic chemistry, and physical and industrial chemistry.

In the early 1990s, Professor Alan Barton approached the Western Australia Department of Conservation and Land management to examine the potential of planting oil mallees across the Western Australian wheat belt to assist in overcoming the serious presence of high salinity. With the cooperation of local farmers, the Oil Mallee Association was formed and in 1998 it received a $2.2 million grant from the Australian Government's Natural Heritage Trust to propagate and maintain mallees for planting in the Western Australian wheat belt. The Association now has over 900 growers throughout the region. Today, the Oil Mallee Project has target plantings of 500 million mallees, to be planted over 1 million hectares, by the year 2025.While high-quality eucalyptus oil production is one of the expected outcomes from the project, other by-products are likely to be of equal or even greater benefit.

2001 2001 Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for service to the environment through the development of industrial uses for eucalyptus oil and recognition of the role of large-scale eucalyptus plantings in the rehabilitation of saline affected soils. Oil Mallee Company (1997 - )

Professor Allan Barton, Murdoch University, had a key role in establishing the Oil Mallee Company through his research into the properties of eucalyptus oil, particularly cineole, in the early 80s.

 Murdoch University (1973 - ) Barton, Allan Francis Murray

Trove

 'Barton, Allan Francis Murray', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Barton, Allan Francis Murray Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: The Oil Mallee Project: A Multifaceted Industrial Ecology Case Study Barton, Allan The Oil Mallee Project: A Multifaceted Industrial Ecology Case Study 1999 Journal of Industrial Ecology 3 2-3 161-176 Book: Eucalypts: a Celebration Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M. Eucalypts: a Celebration Crows Nest Australia Allen & Unwin 2010

Source used to compile entry

 Report: Industrial Uses of Eucalyptus Oil Barton, Allan Industrial Uses of Eucalyptus Oil Division of Science and Engineering, Murdoch University, WA 1998