date:Jul 27, 2012
The university is leading a new EU-backed scheme, called the Biowaste Industrial Symbiosis Network, to explore how green chemical technologies could be deployed to turn food waste into useful chemicals.
We are using green chemical technologies such as low temperature microwave processing and supercritical carbon dioxide extraction (both food-compatible) to extract valuable chemicals such as pectin, limonene, fatty acids, aromatic compounds etc,Professor James Clark, director of the University o