Green Fuels Research wins funding for its Microalgae Biomass Sustainability project
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Green Fuels Research has announced that they have been awarded grant funding under the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme for its Microalgae Biomass Sustainability project (MISTY). Such project aims to increase microalgal biomass productivity in the UK by co-culturing microalgae with bacteria, using wastewater from breweries and dairy industries.
Press release: “Green Fuels Research wins BEIS research funding for brewery and dairy waste biomass feedstock project”, 25/08/2021.
Figure 1. Green Fuels Research wins research funding for its Microalgae Biomass Sustainability project
The key innovation lies in cultivating microalgal strains in conditions adapted to the UK’s weather by using two bioreactor systems, one taking advantage of natural sunlight during spring and summer and the second using organic compounds present in dairy and brewery wastewater as carbon sources in winter. MISTY will enable breweries and the dairy sector to dispose of zero-value, environmentally harmful waste streams while sustainably industrialising a high-value bioenergy resource, decarbonising their value chains and combating climate change. Green Fuels is working with Wadworth & Co, an independent regional family brewer and pub company, operating in excess of 150 pubs and brewing beer in the market town of Devizes since 1875.