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- Co-author of a Nobel Peace Prize Winning report on climate change to appear at York Festival of Ideas
- Now available: pre-funded projects to help Yorkshire businesses.
- Register now to attend the BDC talk at the Pint of Science Festival.
- Register now – 2nd Microwave Commercialisation Club Workshop.
- Register now – Natural ingredient innovation for flavours & fragrances.
- Three projects for the BDC in the 1st round of THYME POC funding.
- Register now – THYME project: networking opportunities at York, join us on 28th March.
- Register now – Anaerobic Digestion: Regional Research Showcase event, 11th April, York.
- Join our workshop to discuss the advancement of bio-based products and processes in the UK market, 9th April, York.
- HRH The Princess Royal participated in the launch of BioYork, a new bioeconomy initiative which includes the BDC.
- New funding available to develop Yorkshire’s biobased businesses.
- Proof of concept grants now available for bioeconomy research.
- Fully-funded training opportunity for bioeconomy entrepreneurs
- New UK-India collaboration tackles industrial waste
- Yorkshire food manufacturing could be improved by harnessing waste
- Funding boost announced for the region’s bioeconomy
- Scientists team up with industry partners to turn potato starch into batteries for electric vehicles
- Landmark alliance launched to support the growth of the UK bioeconomy
- Government advisers look to York experts for insight into bio-waste
- New pilot-scale facility opens to create high-value products from municipal waste
- BDC chosen to be part of the alternative Northern Powerhouse
- We’re hiring!
- BDC joins major food corporations in signing Wrap’s ambitious Courtauld Commitment 2025
- New research explores high-value applications for rapeseed oil
- BDC expands offer for bio-based innovations with £3M investment
- BDC’s Research Development Officer wins “Making the Difference” award
- Where there’s muck there’s brass: high value products from agricultural waste
- York’s innovative BDC is among the best of the north!
- International bioeconomy conference comes to York in June 2015
- York’s contribution to international biofuel research is recognised by Brazil.
- BioVale organises trade mission to France
- BDC scoops UKSPA award
- BioVale: kick-starting the Yorkshire and Humber bioeconomy
- BDC signs-up 100th project!
- Welcome to the new BDC website!
- New grants scheme to help Yorkshire and Humber SMEs invest in innovative green technologies
- BDC celebrates first anniversary
- Business Secretary opens unique national facility to expand the use of plants by industry
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Facilities
- Analytical assessments
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Machines
- Water analysis
- Chromatography (BioRad)
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- Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS)
- High performance liquid chromatograph
- Oxidative stability analyser
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- Anaerobic digestion (AD) plant
- Bioreactors
- Colony Doc-It imaging station
- Surface Air System (SAS) air samplers
- Stomacher 400 circulator
- Glass reactor suite
- Distillation units
- Microwave pyrolysis unit
- Supercritical carbon dioxide system
- Macerator
- Pelletising
- Size reduction and grading
- Seed processing
- Fibre expansion vessel
- ViiA7 quantitative real time PCR system
- SNPline system
- Ion Torrent personal genome machine
- Fragment analyzer
- 3730 DNA Analyzer
- Agilent 2200 TapeStation nucleic acids system
Case studies
- New carbonaceous bio-based material for a variety of applications
- Making pharmaceuticals from food waste
- Getting added value from wood pellets
- Turning potato starch into batteries for electric vehicles
- Making use of wastes from food and drink production
- Using recycled plastic ‘planks’ to grow plants through hydroponics
- New crops for bio-based lubricants
- Resource mapping for biorefining in Scotland
- Novel processing technologies to develop naturally-derived insect repellents
- Converting biomass into high-value chemicals
- Shelf-life implications of oil
- Growth trials for crop stimulants
- Revolutionising nanofiber filtration
- Seeds for growth
- Cardboard cuts out waste
- Helping green the energy market
- Pets snaffling for more treats
- Meaty opportunities from waste
- Cashing in the chips
- High-value chemicals from household waste
- Bees fight bugs and win
- Growing the post anaerobic digestion market
- The seeds of a new relationship
- Optimising industrial hemp for skin care
- Food waste for high value chemicals
- Added-value glycerine from biodiesel waste
- High value renewable waxes from agricultural waste
- Optimising fungi for biorefining high value chemicals from industrial biowaste
- Increasing yield of anti-malarial medicine through fast track plant breeding
- Extracting value from agricultural waste
- Evaluation of microbrewery waste streams
- Novel technology for the treatment of biomass
