Professor Dame Ann Dowling, Commissioner for the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, explores how collaboration, innovation and education combine to drive engineering progress.
Working closely with researchers at the Centrale Lille Institute in Lille, France, Asynt has developed and supplied two custom high-pressure reactors to assist in the development of advanced catalysts for biomass transformation.
The Catalysis and Solid State Chemistry Unit in Lille brings together a large group of experienced researchers, technical and administrative support staff, doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers. Its scientific activities are divided into three fields: heterogeneous catalysis, catalysis and molecular chemistry, and solid chemistry. Within the VAALBIO group, the CatBioInnov team (led by Dr Robert Wojcieszak), is focused on the advanced catalytic upgrading of biomass materials for biorefineries, alongside research into streamlining the use of fossil resources.
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Asynt has supplied Polymer Mimetics with a range of synthetic chemistry equipment to exploit novel chemistries to produce a new generation of high-performance polymers.
Polymer Mimetics is a joint venture between the University of Liverpool, and Scott Bader Company Ltd building upon a new polymerisation process developed by Professor Steve Rannard from the University’s Department of Chemistry. The technology takes widely available chemical building blocks and, in a highly scalable process, transforms them into superior performance polymeric products with the potential to engineer in degradability.
Dr Paul Findlay, Chief Technology Offer at Polymer Mimetics, said: Since the 1950 s less than 10% of the billions of tons of plastic produced worldwide has been recycled - the rest has been sent to landfill or left in the natural environment. Using our new polymerisation technology, we can produce novel polymers to address some of the issues associated wit