Separation of Organic Platform Chemicals from Spent Lees

Successful project to assess the feasibility of extracting platform chemicals from spent lees delivers a valuable new feedstock, a bespoke analytical tool, additional product streams and evidence to substantiate the company’s green credentials.

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Conversion of sewage sludge into biochar: Wastewater treatment potential and re-use on land

The success of this project provides opportunities for Scottish Water and Scottish Water Horizons to circularise a process for disposing of Human sewage sludge and cleaning wastewater of phosphorus. The project will contribute to Scottish Water’s commitment to Net Zero by 2040.

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Selection and characterisation of anti-peptide synthetic antibodies for comparison with conventional reagents

This Feasibility funded project developed two antibodies using biopanning of University of Edinburgh’s phage display library, allowing TAC to successfully apply for further funding to advance the project and bringing potentially significant benefits for the Scottish economy.

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Investigating the use of daffodil extracts to treat heart failure

in this project co-funded with the High Value Biorenewables Network, the team successfully developed a process to extract alkaloids from daffodil biomass which could be used in the treatment of heart failure and are now in a position to apply for investment to take the process forward at scale in Scotland.

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Producing broad spectrum antiviral therapeutics from cyanobacteria

In this successful Feasibility Project, the project partners identified antiviral therapeutics that can be extracted from cyanobacteria, and gained leverage for additional funding, training opportunities, and developed new methods for fractionating and purifying polysaccharides.

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Optimising bacteria production and storage for field-scale application of a new biomineralization technology in ground engineering

Innovation funding enabled the academic team on this project to optimise their bacteria growing process and gave BAM Ritchies an insight into new opportunities, with the project collaborators set to continue to work together beyond the project.

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Enhancing the purity of speciality seaweed products

Marine Biopolymers (MBL) is a Scottish SME whose focus is on extracting high value components from brown seaweeds for use in a range of applications such as food and pharmaceuticals, but also in different industrial application areas, where the use of natural polymers is growing fast.

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Accelerating scale up of the ABUNDA® bioprocess

As ENOUGH (formerly 3fBio) move mycoprotein production from their scale up facility in Glasgow to full scale production in the Netherlands, they wanted to design a suite of early diagnosis tests to determine when a batch of product is growing sub-optimally in the hope that issues can be mitigated and avoid reductions in the amount or quality of product.

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Novel process for efficient bio-methanisation of waste- derived syngas

Owners of food waste AD plants are looking for alternative ways to valorise waste that contains both plastic and biobased substances. Carbogenics wanted to investigate whether fermentation from screening waste was possible and test a scaled-up version of their process for making biomethane from waste using bacteria.

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