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• Turning potato starch into batteries for electric vehicles
• UK-India collaboration tackles industrial waste

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  • 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
  • 120 pre-funded projects set to help Yorkshire businesses
  • 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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• Fragment analyzer
• 3730 DNA Analyzer
• Agilent 2200 TapeStation nucleic acids system

Case studies

• 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