Biorefinery Engineering and Bioprocessing Research Centre

Facilities

Our work in Biorefinery Engineering and Bioprocessing is underpinned by facilities at a range of scales, most notably our bioethanol plant which is enabling us to produce arabinoxylans and other polysaccharide products at sufficient scale for functionality and formulation studies. We also have a range of desktop scale microorganism culturing and analytical equipment from 96-well plate to 2-L fermenters.  

Impact

The goal of our work in Biorefinery Engineering and Bioprocessing is to enable new products and processes that deliver societal benefits in terms of health, well-being and sustainability.  We are working with industrial collaborators and other research groups to define needs and create cost-effective technical solutions in order to bring these new products to commercial reality.  We are also active within the research community to influence the direction of biorefinery research to ensure it encompasses the engineering issues necessary to its industrial relevance and uptake.  For example, we are leading the introduction of the new Biorefinery and Bioresource Engineering theme in the journal Food and Bioproducts Processing.

Research Degree Opportunities

We welcome enquiries related to experimental research in cereal processing, biofuel and biochemical production, high value products synthesis, fermentations and model-based research in biorefinery integration and industrial ecology.

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External Relationships

Our recent and current collaborators and funders include the Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Network (LBNet), the Plants to Products Network (P2PNet), the EU Susfood programme, AB Agri, Lucozade Suntory Ribena, the Biorenewables Development Centre, as well as colleagues at the universities of York, Lincoln, St Andrews, Nottingham, Dresden, Lund and Valencia, National Technical University of Athens, University of the Aegean, Technical University of Crete, Imperial College London and Chalmers University of Technology.