New BBSRC funded project on Eliminating Co2 from Fermentation Processes

Dimitris Papadopoulos is Co-I on the new BBSRC funded project No Carbon Lost - Eliminating Co2 Production from Fermentation Processes (2022-2024, £1,875,000). One of the greatest challenges facing society is the future sustainable production of chemicals from non-petrochemical resources while at the same time reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The solution is to derive processes that can convert plant material, or biomass, into the chemicals and materials we need. This may be accomplished by microbial fermentation processes. However, sugar-based fermentation processes waste more than one third of the carbon which is not incorporated into the product but lost as CO2. The project will eliminate carbon loss during biomass-based biological conversions to make products that include alcohols and a bioplastic, without releasing CO2.