UWE Bristol is excited to announce a new three-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with WASE Limited, funded by Innovate UK. A KTP is a unique collaboration between a business, a university, and an associate. It aims to create a positive commercial impact, enable transformational improvements, and drive innovation.
WASE provides their customers with decentralised, next-generation technology that converts wastewater and organic waste into energy (methane-rich biogas). Their services help clients reduce energy costs, shielding themselves from market volatility and lowering waste treatment costs. This is all achieved, whilst decreasing carbon impact through an enhanced local circular economy.
They currently support SMEs in food and beverage manufacturing and agriculture. Their direct sales team offers a Waste and Sustainable Energy as a Service (WASEaaS) model that requires no CAPEX for instant low-cost renewable energy. They also provide an ownership model with remote operation and maintenance support.
The KTP will create a machine learning-based soft sensing platform. This platform will be integrated within WASE’s Electro-Methanogenesis Reactor (EMR) to remotely optimise system performance. The system will help expand EMR technology, allowing customers to treat wastewater on-site while generating energy, reducing carbon emissions, and producing cleaner water and nutrients for use as fertilizers.
The project aims to develop game-changing improvements to the EMR technology by enhancing the system’s monitoring and adaptability. This will ensure minimal downtime and maximum value from the waste. The improvements will involve optimizing WASE’s industrial-scale system and improving predictive analytics in anaerobic digestion (AD). We will use feedback from microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) modules to enhance sensor accuracy.
If you would like to find out more about WASE’s next generation anaerobic digestion system and the novel machine learning biosensing, reach out to the team at WASE: Get in touch – WASE.
Will Gambier, Head of Science from WASE commented:
“We’re delighted to partner with UWE Bristol on this exciting Knowledge Transfer Partnership. This collaboration is an important opportunity to take our waste-to-energy solutions to the next level, combining our industry expertise with the University’s innovative research capabilities.
We see great potential in using data-driven insights to help our customers treat wastewater more effectively, generate clean energy, and support sustainability goals.”
KTPs integrate academic research into companies, to promote innovation and growth. The unique three-way collaboration between a business, a university and a graduate help businesses improve competitiveness and productivity.
