Congratulations to colleagues at METzero and Newcastle University, who were recently awarded funding under NBIC’s Industrial Challenge Response Fund (ICRF).
The project involves developing a deployable real-time control system for microbial electrochemical technologies (METs). The work will optimise electroactive biofilms for wastewater treatment while supporting scalable, remotely operated systems for industrial deployment of next-generation resource recovery technologies.
EBNet is proud to have played a small part in enabling this research journey, through funding a Proof-of-Concept (POC) project on Pure biomethane – rather than biogas – from a single waste stream led by Dr Liz Heidrich of Newcastle University, as well as supporting the Bioelectrochemical Systems WG.
Dr Heidrich, who is also co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at METzero, said: “These pots of funding from sources like NBIC and EBNet provide the flexibility to tackle the crucial building blocks that take a technology from lab research to viable product: the EBNet POC was about methane-yielding MECs, while the current NBIC project takes this further by developing safe and certified control units”.
