During these challenging times, companies are seeking new ways to survive, evolve and expand. Growth opportunities from net zero could be one such good route to explore.
As customer demand for low carbon goods and services is rising, it is becoming increasingly important for suppliers to demonstrate their carbon footprint. More and more businesses are reviewing their supply chain emissions. All of these factors will drive future growth in the low carbon market sectors including bioenergy, energy-from-waste, energy systems and bioproducts.
Help is available now
The Energy & Bioproducts Research Institute (EBRI) at Aston University provides practical solutions for businesses to explore these increasingly important, vibrant markets.
Contact us for a virtual consultation.
How you can benefit from our support:
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- Produce new high value materials from waste which can be commercialised
- Create new value-from-waste products by turning them into energy
- Generate new value from better management of energy use and generation, using advanced control systems to optimise heating, cooling and electricity
- Develop new opportunities in emerging and disruptive marketplaces
- Connect to other companies in the energy and bioproducts supply chains
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EBRI can provide you with the following:
Specialist advice and guidance
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- Biochar
- Bioenergy
- Biological processes
- Bioproducts
- Energy from waste
- Energy systems
- Thermal processes
- Value Chain
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Tailored reports
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- Market overviews to identify the commercial potential of your specific process or product
- Economic feasibility studies – an assessment of your proposed technology, including risk and return
- Evaluation and optimisation of a process’ supply chain
- Desk research on feedstock properties to enable comparison and selection
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Technology advice and assessment to help you identify the best process for a specific product or a given feedstock.
Process modelling – We can develop simple models for your existing or planned processes and technologies in the areas of bioenergy, waste to energy and bioproducts that enable you to:
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- Design new processes using existing technologies
- Improve energy efficiency of an existing process
- Determine process emissions and identify carbon saving opportunities
- Determine the technical and economic feasibility of specific technologies and feedstocks
- Technically assess new technologies being developed
- Determine process monitoring, control and scale-up requirements
- Develop sustainable value chains
- Optimise supply chain performance
- Improve supply and value chain logistics
- Suggest business (inbound logistics) improvement ideas after testing them in risk free environment
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Recommend automation and control alternatives for production lines
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To see examples of how we have helped other local companies watch short film here, and see below case studies:
Discover more about how we can help you
See short film to the left from Tim Miller, Director of Engagement, EBRI
At Aston University we can help you in a number of ways at this time, and moving forward into the future. We can help you find skills, access funding and gain business advantage through knowledge.
Sustainability Master Class Reviews
The Energy & Bioproducts Research Institute (EBRI) at Aston University is now running a new series of its highly acclaimed Master Class to help business decision makers and entrepreneurs explore the growing bioeconomy and the opportunities it offers. To hear what previous delegates say about our master class and the benefits of attending, please view the video to the left.
Simply drop us a line to let us know how we can help.
Click ‘Contact EBRI’ to complete our online enquiry form.
Alternatively email [email protected] or call us on 0121 204 3383.