Industry Focus: R&I
something like Quorn – which are nutritious and inexpensive, all as part of an existing AD technology pipeline.”
A centre of global excellence – the vision It is hoped that the proposed virtual Centre will deliver a step change in the rate of development and performance of AD, helping to transform it from something often perceived as solely a waste treatment or energy generation technology into a low cost, multi-functional biotechnology.
“Our biggest issue is the slow rate of the first step of the AD process (hydrolysis),” concludes Dr Mason. “Until we fix this, nothing else matters because we can’t do AD cheaply enough. Is it easy to solve? No. But is it possible? Absolutely yes. The thing to remember is that while matching
A cow’s stomach is 30 times quicker at hydrolysing than a digester
exactly what happens in a cow’s stomach may be extremely difficult to achieve, even if we can achieve a 25 per cent increase we will still have made a huge improvement, to the point where it completely changes the economics.” What’s clear is that there are some very exciting times ahead for the UK AD industry. We may have over 540 plants in operation, but it seems this is just the beginning.
www.tropicalpower.com www.imperial.ac.uk
Professor Stuckey and Dr Mason will be speaking at ADBA’s R&I Forum 2017 (28-29 March, London). For the full programme and to book your place go to
adbioresources.org or see opposite.
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