Seminar to explain anaerobic digestion
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Feb 28, 2005
A half-day seminar to help West Midlands small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) get involved in the UK's fastest growing marketplace, is to be held at Birmingham's Technology Innovation Centre.
A half-day seminar to help West Midlands small and medium sised enterprises (SMEs) get involved in the UK's fastest growing marketplace, is to be held at Birmingham's Technology Innovation Centre.
On Wednesday 16th March an event, which focuses on emerging opportunities in the environmental products and services fields, is being mounted by the TIC-based EnviroInnovate technology-transfer team.
TIC's main lecture theatre will see an audience of SMEs learn more about an innovative means of treating food, animal, vegetable and other green waste, to produce valuable energy and byproducts.
The process, known as "anaerobic digestion", uses microbial action on waste from multiple agricultural, municipal and food processing sources - even domestic garden material.
Seminar organiser, TIC-Technologist Ian Bernard, explains: "The anaerobic digestion process takes place in an environment from which air is excluded".
"End-products can be valuable nutrient materials and biogas, which will provide heat and electricity".
"Now waste biological materials can be used beneficially, and old muck can produce new money for enterprising businesses".
The EnviroInnovate initiative complements Advantage West Midlands (AWM)'s EnviroTrade strategy.
Dealing with a wide range of the region's waste products is a key aspect of this activity.
The EnviroInnovate partnership comprises the University of Central England's TIC, together with Aston, Birmingham, Keele, Staffordshire and Wolverhampton universities, and Harper Adams University College.
This consortium sets out to help SMEs develop technologies to take advantage of the manufacturing and service growth opportunities in the environmental and waste disposal sectors.
The 16th March seminar is a TIC, Harper Adams and EnviroTrade initiative.
Ralph Hepworth, AWM's Business Development Manager for environmental technologies, says: "This collaborative initiative is giving smaller companies access to the powerful resources within the region's universities".
EnviroInnovate offers participating firms expert project team support entailing either a 5-day business-opportunity review or a technical feasibility study for an already identified objective.
Either may then lead to a supported 60-day development project.
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