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Mark D. Redwood m.d.redwood@bham.ac.uk Research Fellow Unit of Functional Bionanomaterials

Mark D. Redwood m.d.redwood@bham.ac.uk Research Fellow Unit of Functional Bionanomaterials School of Biosciences www.hydrogen-wm-scratch.info SCRATCH workshop, 16 th Sept 2009. BioHydrogen. Research area: Biohydrogen. Green hydrogen “Green” means clean and renewable

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Mark D. Redwood m.d.redwood@bham.ac.uk Research Fellow Unit of Functional Bionanomaterials

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  1. Mark D. Redwood m.d.redwood@bham.ac.uk Research Fellow Unit of Functional Bionanomaterials School of Biosciences www.hydrogen-wm-scratch.info SCRATCH workshop, 16th Sept 2009 BioHydrogen

  2. Research area: Biohydrogen • Green hydrogen • “Green” means cleanandrenewable • Renewable – made from renewable energy sources like sun, wind, hydroelectric and biomass. Not from gas. • Clean – without environmental pollutants • Hydrocarbons, CO2, NOx, SOx, soot, smog • Clean – inherently without key impurities • Carbon monoxide (CO) • Hydrogen sulphide (H2S)

  3. Technical focus: A dual-bioreactor system for bio-H2 H2 Dark Fermentation Photo- Fermentation Sugary wastes Organic acids

  4. Results • Built new equipment for low gas-flow monitoring • Built new equipment for detailed study of solar biohydrogen

  5. Results • Shown fermentation of waste (ongoing APOC) • Shown solar biohydrogen production in Birmingham

  6. Research papers published (wrt SCRATCH) • The challenge of combining dark fermentation and photofermentation • The roles of hydrogenases during hydrogen production by E. coli • Review on the microbiology of biohydrogen production

  7. Research papers planned • Towards an integrated system for bio-energy: Hydrogen production by E. coli and use of palladium coated waste cells for electricity generation in a fuel cell (Collaboration with UoDundee) • Efficient BioH2 production from NH4-rich feed using extractive fermentation • Hydrogen production from food wastes by E. coli strain HD701 (DW Penfold's experiments) • Local factors affecting hydrogen production and yield prediction from solar intensity data (collaboration with Bw2E). • Integration of a biohydrogen reactor with a solid-state H-store (Collaboration with A. Bevan and D. Book) • Comparison of learning curves for future hydrogen production technologies (Collaboration with R. Green and H. Hu).

  8. Conference talks (wrt SCRATCH) • Society for General Microbiology AGM, Edinburgh. Sept 2009. • Bacteriology in Birmingham, Sept 2009. • Institute for Energy Research and Policy, Birmingham, Jan 2009 • Solar & Bioenergy Symposium, Glasgow, Sept 2008 • Anaerobic Treatment Conference, Birmingham Institute, May 2008

  9. Completed Business Assistance • Formed in early 2008 with investment from ModernWaste and IP from UoB, and EKB Technology Ltd (Oxford). • Aim to commercialise a process to generate clean energy from organic waste. • Currently seeking partners and funding for pilot-scale operations. www.bw2e.com

  10. Ongoing Business Assistance • Manufacturers and suppliers of Endothermic roofs • The roof harvests solar energy to provide heating and hot water • Fundamental concept study on an “endothermic photobioreactor (endo-PBR)” • Opportunity to incorporate hydrogen generation

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