Major advances in bioenergy production

RenewableEnergyFocus.com
23 August 2010

A process that uses anaerobic microorganisms and mimics the digestive processes of cattle could change the way organic waste and biomass crops are converted into bioenergy.

Biosource Ltd was set up to exploit the bioenergy anaerobic fermentation process which was developed at the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) in collaboration with Professor Mike Theodorou, formerly of Aberystwyth University, a microbiology expert on cow and sheep gut function.

As Professor Theodorou explains: “The UK creates around 40 million tonnes of organic waste each year much of which ends up in landfills. But with a more sustainable way of life and climate-change high on political and social agendas, the global thrust for new ways of creating fuels from biomass is gathering pace.”

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