Funding

Funding awarded to date

The following is a summary of the outcomes of the Proof of Concept (POC) awards, Business Interaction Vouchers (BIV) and Vacation Students (VS) awarded.

(POC-20) Reducing the carbon footprint of ABE fermentation

Christopher Humphreys PI, The University of Nottingham
Start Date: 01/04/2022
Completed: 31/08/2022
Summary

(BIV-05) Rethinking Crop Nutrition: Supercharged Cyanobacterial Biofertilisers

Samantha Bryan, PI University of Nottingham
Start Date: 01/08/2022
Completed: 31/01/2023
Summary

The Carbon Recycling Network (POC 06) Validating a network rewiring approach to overcoming product and feedback inhibitions in syngas fermentation

John Heap PI, The University of Nottingham
Start Date: 14/09/2020
Completed: 30/09/2021
Summary

The Carbon Recycling Network (POC 07) Synthetic Calvin Cycle for efficient carbon fixation

Nigel Minton PI, The University of Nottingham
Start Date: 11/01/2021
Completed: 10/09/2021
Summary

The Carbon Recycling Network (POC 13) Exploring continuous, safe, and efficient production of butanediol from CO2 in an electrogenic reactor using Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34

Rajesh Reddy Bommareddy, PI Northumbria University
Start Date: 01/04/2022
Completed: 30/09/2022
Summary

The Carbon Recycling Network (POC 01) Electroautotrophic production of butanediols from CO2 using engineering Cupriavidus necator H16

Katalin Kovacs, PI University of Nottingham
Start Date: 01/03/2021
Completed: 31/08/2021
Summary

The Carbon Recycling Network (POC-02) Developing the Potential for CO2 Capture and Utilisation in Hybrid Anaerobic Digesters

Yue Zhang, PI University of Southampton
Start Date: 01/09/2020
Completed: 30/11/2022
Summary

The Carbon Recycling Network (POC-09) A special bacterial chassis with the potential to capture carbon from air

Frank Sargent, PI Newcastle University
Start Date: 01/08/2020
Completed: 31/08/2021
Summary

The Carbon Recycling Network (BIV-03) Engineering sustainable citric acid production in cyanobacteria

Samantha Bryan, PI University of Nottingham
Start Date: 01/10/2020
Completed: 31/03/2021
Summary

(BIV-18) A control system for H2 injection into an anaerobic digester based on continuous monitoring of headspace gas composition

Charles Banks, PI University of Southampton
Start Date: 01/09/2018
Completed: 28/02/2019
Summary

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