A biofuel cell know-how for producing electrical energy from wastewater has secured two nationwide engineering awards for a group of researchers on the College of Nottingham.
The group met in 2020 as PhD researchers on the college through the Younger Entrepreneurs Scheme. Now, their early-stage cleantech startup, Pipeline Organics, is looking for additional help.
The group has developed what’s described as a better effectivity biofuel cell know-how which is seemingly amenable to retrofit into present infrastructure to right away begin producing renewable electrical energy. A totally operational product is anticipated to launch in 2025.
On Friday 3 November, the group scooped up two awards on the Engineers in Enterprise Champion of Champions grand closing on the Royal Academy of Engineering in London hosted by TV presenter and engineer, Rob Bell.
The group impressed judges, profitable the Enterprise Award value £5,000, and picked up the highest prize within the Startup class, profitable an additional £3,000 and mentorship to assist them take their enterprise concept to the subsequent degree.
Arielle Torres, Chief Govt Officer of Pipeline Organics, mentioned: “The help that comes with these awards is strictly what we’d like proper now. We’re at a important level in our enterprise, making ready to scale by way of strategic hires and elevating capital funding. These prizes take us one step nearer to reaching our objectives.”
Andrew Raslan, Chief Working Officer of Pipeline Organics, provides: “We goal to capitalise on our current successes and increasing portfolio of analysis to safe extra grant funding to help market alignment and technological developments. Certainly one of our fundamental targets is to determine co-innovation partnerships with goal clients, together with throughout the water trade with a view to entry Ofwat Innovation funding.”
The group additionally obtained CV packages from PurpleCV and entrepreneurial books from Cambridge College Press and Double your Worth, a e book by David Falzani MBE, which covers how pricing works with sensible insights, instruments, and actionable steerage.
The occasion was the end result of a yr of enterprise competitions held throughout UK universities, with 1000’s of undergraduate and graduates participating.
Every year, Engineers in Enterprise Fellowship champions enterprise training for engineers and helps universities by giving them grants to award prizes to engineering college students who develop concepts that may make a constructive impression on society.
For extra details about the competitors, go to www.eibc.org.uk
