A biofuel cell expertise for producing electrical energy from wastewater has secured two nationwide engineering awards for a staff of researchers on the College of Nottingham.
The staff met in 2020 as PhD researchers on the college through the Younger Entrepreneurs Scheme. Now, their early-stage cleantech startup, Pipeline Organics, is in search of additional assist.
The group has developed what’s described as the next effectivity biofuel cell expertise which is seemingly amenable to retrofit into current infrastructure to instantly begin producing renewable electrical energy. A totally operational product is anticipated to launch in 2025.
On Friday 3 November, the staff 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 staff impressed judges, profitable the Enterprise Award value £5,000, and picked up the highest prize within the Startup class, profitable an extra £3,000 and mentorship to assist them take their enterprise concept to the subsequent stage.
Arielle Torres, Chief Government Officer of Pipeline Organics, mentioned: “The assist that comes with these awards is precisely what we’d like proper now. We’re at a essential level in our enterprise, getting 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 purpose to capitalise on our current successes and increasing portfolio of analysis to safe further grant funding to assist market alignment and technological developments. One in every of our major aims is to ascertain co-innovation partnerships with goal clients, together with throughout the water business with the intention to entry Ofwat Innovation funding.”
The staff additionally acquired 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 steering.
The occasion was the fruits of a 12 months of enterprise competitions held throughout UK universities, with hundreds of undergraduate and graduates collaborating.
Every year, Engineers in Enterprise Fellowship champions enterprise schooling 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