Some interesting new publications this month in the field of Anaerobic Fermentation and biorefineries. Recent developments and future perspectives of marine macroalgae biorefinery in a circular bioeconomy approach. Lawrence, J., Oliva, A., Murphy, J.D. and Lens, P.N., 2025. Research Handbook of Innovation in the Circular Bioeconomy, pp.260-271. Critical factors influencing biohythane …
The Sustainable Chemicals Innovation Network is seeking speakers for a virtual Café Series. Are you driving innovation in sustainable chemicals, green manufacturing, or carbon-efficient technologies? This is your chance to share insights, showcase your work, and collaborate with like-minded peers across industry, academia, and government. Each café will feature a …
Application Deadline: 29th August 2025 to JSPS Tokyo via a host institution in Japan. Two types of funding are now available to carry out research in Japan, for short-term stays of 14 – 60 days or longer-term stays of 2 – 10 months. These fellowships must be started between 1 …
Abstracts deadline: 6 June 2025 Conference: 11-12 November 2025, Manchester The organisers of the European Biosolids & Bioresources Conference (EBBC) are inviting abstract submissions for oral and poster presentations on the following themes: Advanced Thermal Conversion & landbank challenges The Circular Economy (From Source to Land & Sea) The Industrial Emissions …
Applications are now being invited for the Processes 2025 Travel Award. This prize provides financial support to attend an international conference in the field of chemistry, biochemistry, biology, materials, or related process/systems engineering research to be held in 2026, in order to make a presentation, present a poster, or both. …
IEA Bioenergy’s Task 36: Material and Energy valorisation of waste in a Circular Economy has published a report on Social and Environmental Sustainability of Municipal Solid Waste in the Context of the UN SDGs. The work builds on input from participants in a series of regional workshops held in South Africa, …
Each month we are highlighting 2-3 stories from our Green Stories: Microbes to the Rescue anthology, equivalent to about 30 mins listening in the Audiobook version. The anthology is also available as a free eBook on the Resources page. This month’s selections are: Chapter 12: From the Ashes by Elizabeth Taylor, …
Date: 13 May 2025, 12-13:30 BST (13-14:30 CEST) IEA Bioenergy Task 37 is running a webinar on Manure to Biogas: Global Lessons and Challenges in Unlocking Farm-Based Potential. This webinar builds on a recent report and aims to explore the untapped potential of manure-based biogas systems in a global context. …
Workshop videos are available HERE. Date: 6 June 2025 Venue: Cranfield University The PFAS WG, led by Dr Tao Lyu, is organising a workshop on ‘Environmental Biotechnology for the management of PFAS and beyond‘. Keynote speakers Prof Peter Jaffé, and Prof Joshua Atkinson from Princeton University, USA will give talks …
A 2-day workshop led by Prof John Bridgeman of the University of Liverpool brought together specialists in fluid mechanics with microbiologists and water industry end users to discuss best practice and new opportunities in hydrodynamic modelling of anaerobic digestion of wastewater biosolids. These complex multi-phase non-Newtonian fluids present a range …
Another month with sad or bad news for our many members in the UK water industry – but in at least one area, EBNet is helping to develop solutions. On 25 April the National Audit Office (NAO) published its report on ‘Regulating for investment and outcomes in the water sector‘. …
The International Fugitive Emissions Abatement Association IFEAA has carried out a review of factors enabling on-farm anaerobic digestion and methane capture. The IFEAA team, including EBNet’s Network Co-Manager Angela Bywater, worked with system developers to understand policy, regulatory, skills and technology aspects, as part of the Cornwall-based Net Zero Methane …
This micrograph shows a sample taken on 2 April 2025 from salt pans near the Mar Menor (Murcia, Spain), a haven of extremophile diversity. On the left is the alga Dunaliella salina that has lost its two characteristic flagella and is in the process of encysting. Blooms of these …
The BBC’s Rare Earth programme has a new episode out on PFAS, the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances that are now a major emerging pollutant: listen or download on Rare Earth – Forever Chemicals – BBC Sounds. Dr Tao Lyu from Cranfield University, who leads EBNet’s PFAS Working Group, says: “New …
Title: Synergies of renewable hydrogen and biobased value chains deployment: Environmental performance and promising value chains Date: 6 May 2025, 15-16:30 Central European Summer Time (CEST) Location: Online via TEAMs This webinar aims to shed light on promising biobased value chains that could exploit synergies between the hydrogen sector and the …
