Bioenergy boost for Aston University

BirminghamPost.net
May 25 2010

Aston University has strengthened its world-leading research into bioenergy with the opening of its new £650,000 state-of-the-art chemical engineering laboratories.

The Royal Society-Wolfson Advanced Biofuels and Bioenergy Laboratory will accommodate the university’s European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI) and build on Aston’s 40 years of tradition into research into low-carbon, renewable technologies.

The new suite, funded by The Royal Society and Wolfson Foundation and opened by Aston Vice Chancellor Professor Julia King, will focus on biomass conversion technologies - the process of transforming plant materials, oils and municipal and agricultural waste into useful and valuable forms of renewable energy.

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