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Valorisation of co-products from the potato growing industry

Funding from IBioIC’s Feasibility Fund enabled Grampian Growers to work with Professor Giovanna Bermano from Robert Gordon University and Dr Gordon McDougall of The James Hutton Institute to assess the feasibility of valorising potato haulms as feedstocks for ingredients and high value products for global markets.

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Building the Circular Bioeconomy: Scaling Sail Upcycling

Sustainable Extricko is developing a closed loop recycling process for petrochemical derived materials like sails, with the goal of integrating end-of-life (EoL) sails into the circular economy.

In this project, they wanted to characterise microbial growth and tolerance to sail recyclates and optimise fermentation conditions to progress this technology towards scale-up and industrial application.

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Characterisation and extraction of valuable components from marine growth

There’s limited knowledge about the potential value of marine growth on decommissioned offshore assets. CessCon Decom wanted to characterise the nutritional composition of the marine growth and assess the feasibility of extracting valuable components.

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Microbial Bioproduction of Chemicals from Bread and Potato Waste Carbohydrates

Funding from IBioIC’s Feasibility Fund enabled C-Source Renewables and Stephen Wallace from the University of Edinburgh to work together to assess the potential for bread and potato waste generated from food waste to be used as a viable glucose replacement for the bioproduction of three chemicals used to make valuable industrial products which are currently manufactured from diminishing fossil resources.

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Recycling and remediation of metal from advanced alloy waste

High-performance steels and alloys necessary for modern applications comprise of a plethora of valuable and critical metal resources such as nickel, cobalt, tantalum, niobium, and rhenium, which are currently poorly recycled. SEM wanted to look at potential routes to the recovery of metals which can then be re-used.

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Improving the sustainability of resins and films with natural lignin derived from biomass residues

Lignin is a material obtained from woody biomass, such as forestry waste suitable for a range of applications. Sonichem wanted to investigate the feasibility of using their natural lignin in the production of advanced, bio-based and sustainable films and resins in packaging and composite manufacturing.

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Jess’ interest in sustainability and protecting the environment lead them to a PHD with Unilever

For this PHD, Jess Tallis is investigating Optimisation of glycosylated triterpenoid production in S. cerevisiae, with Unilever. Jess tells us about their passion for teaching and how the outcomes from this PhD have the potential to extend into other areas including vaccine production, cancer therapeutics and treatments for neurodegenerative disorders.

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