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The Welsh Soils Discussion Group, which is affiliated to the British Society of Soil Science, held their winter meeting at IBERS on 1^st February and BEACON energy crop scientist Dr Elaine Jensen was in attendance. One of the topics discussed was carbon storage in Welsh soils and...

BEACON scientists have recently published the results of trials with various feedstocks and pyrolysis process conditions to produce a biochar which can adsorb metals from contaminated groundwater. The paper, published in Bioresource Technology, can be read here:...

MSc students on the Renewable Energy and the Built Environment (REBE) programme from the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Powys, Wales made their annual visit to the BEACON facility at IBERS to learn about the valuable research into renewable energy forms undertaken by...

BEACON welcomed a delegation of scientists from the Institute of Botany, Jiangsu province and Chinese Academy of Sciences (JIB-CAS) and the Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, Katowice, Poland to its pilot scale processing facilities as part of a visit to the Institute of...

The 13th International Symposium on Cytochrome P450 Biodiversity and Biotechnology, held in Vancouver, Canada this year, was attended by BEACON's Professor Steve Kelly and and Dr Josie Parker. Professor Kelly presented research from the Centre for Cytochrome P450 Biodiversity....

On Wednesday 23 2016 November BEACON ran a very successful one-day Biochar workshop.  Talks were given on:

• Practical operation of a pilot-scale batch slow-pyrolysis unit (Damon Hammond, BEACON)
• The effects of biochar application to soil (Dr Simon Jeffery, Harper Adams)...

BEACON is one of five established R&D centres across the UK announcing a new alliance today - BioPilotsUK. This alliance will seek to position Britain as a global leader in biorefining technology development and bio-based product manufacture – two key elements of the bioeconomy.

Organic chemist and BEACON scientist, Dr Patrick Murphy, has been talking to the BBC about his work with daffodils in the hunt for potential cures for diseases. Daffodils produce a compound known as galantamine, which is already used in drugs to treat Alzheimer's, a degenerative...

Farewell to Christina Ure, James Park and Shannon Deehan who have been part of the BEACON team for 3 months under the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship programme between the University of Windsor and Aberystwyth University.  They have been working on...

Aberystwyth University recently played host to eight promising students from the United States as part of the Fulbright Commission Wales Summer Institute. Enjoying a diverse academic and cultural programme, the students visited IBERS, Gogerddan to learn about the research...