{"id":3633,"date":"2011-03-18T10:01:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T14:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2011-03-18T10:01:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T14:01:56","slug":"univ-bioenergy-lab-to-develop-low-carbon-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=3633","title":{"rendered":"Univ. Bioenergy Lab to Develop Low Carbon Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3635\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/AstonEnergyLab_AstonUniv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3635\" title=\"AstonEnergyLab_AstonUniv\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/AstonEnergyLab_AstonUniv.jpg\" alt=\"Energy lab drawing (Aston Univ.)\" width=\"262\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/AstonEnergyLab_AstonUniv.jpg 262w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/AstonEnergyLab_AstonUniv-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist&#39;s drawing of proposed bioenergy lab (Aston Univ.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.aston.ac.uk\/about\/news\/releases\/2011\/165m-engineering-laboratories-to-develop-low-carbon-technologies\/\">Aston University<\/a> in Birmingham, U.K. plans to build new \u00a316.5 million ($26.7 million) engineering laboratories to develop and demonstrate renewable low carbon technologies including a biomass fueled power plant. The facility (artist&#8217;s drawing pictured right)\u00a0 is scheduled to open on the Aston campus in October 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The labs include photo-bioreactors harnessing algae, and a 0.4MW small-scale industrial power plant fueled by biomass. The plant is expected to generate heat and power from biomass using algae, sewage sludge, wood, and agricultural waste as feedstocks.<\/p>\n<p>The facility will also generate biomass by-products including hydrogen power for low carbon vehicles or fuel cells and biochar for use as an agricultural fertiliser and a source for decentralised hydrogen production. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biochar-international.org\/biochar\">Biochar<\/a> is a fine-grained, highly porous form of charcoal that helps soils retain nutrients and water.<\/p>\n<p>A long-term research goal is to create a series of small-scale industrial power plants around Birmingham. These power plants could divert biodegradable waste away from landfills and incineration, and feed energy back into the U.K.&#8217;s national power grid. The city of Birmingham itself aims to reduce its carbon emissions by 60% by 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Funding for the labs is provided by the European Regional Development Fund, Advantage West Midlands &#8212; a regional economic development organization, and Aston University.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.aston.ac.uk\/eas\/research\/groups\/ebri\/\">European Bioenergy Research Institute<\/a>, located at Aston, will run the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=2786\">U.K. University Hosts Environmental Tech Training Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston University in Birmingham, U.K. plans to build new \u00a316.5 million ($26.7 million) engineering laboratories to develop and demonstrate renewable low carbon technologies including a biomass fueled power plant. The facility (artist&#8217;s drawing pictured right)\u00a0 is scheduled to open on the Aston campus in October 2012. The labs include photo-bioreactors harnessing algae, and a 0.4MW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,68,86,45,105,90,26],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","tag-biofuels","tag-energy","tag-engineering","tag-europe","tag-physical-sciences","tag-u-k","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}