Justin Whiteley
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Researchers Use Beer Byproduct to Create New Battery
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have turned brewery wastewater into battery power. The process uses biological organisms cultivated in the water to make the carbon-based materials required to create cells that store energy. Read More
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Colorado researchers turn beer waste into battery electrodes
In the beer-friendly state of Colorado, researchers at the University of Colorado-Boulder have turned brewery runoff into something with a different sort of buzz: low-cost lithium-ion battery electrodes. Read More
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Colorado engineers use beer waste to fuel eco-friendly battery
We’ve seen breweries turn wastewater into drinkable beer but now scientists have turned one brewery’s dirty wastewater into energy. Read More
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Beer batteries: Colorado researchers use brewery wastewater to produce electrodes
Researchers in Colorado have found a way to use wastewater from brewing beer to produce lithium ion battery electrodes. Read More
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From beer to batteries: using wastewater to make energy
It takes about seven barrels of water for every barrel of beer produced. Left over is thousands of gallons of wastewater, which ends up in a water treatment facility. But what if there is a better option? A group of doctorate-engineering students at the University of Colorado-Boulder believe they have found one: using it to grow a fungus that could help make lithium-ion batteries. Read More
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CU Boulder researchers develop an eco-friendly solution to all that brewery wastewater
Researchers at the University of Colorado-Boulder published a study in journal of Applied Materials & Interfaces last month that details a new potential use for brewery wastewater: naturally-derived lithium ion battery electrodes, or the material in batteries that conducts electricity. Read More
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Brewery wastewater finds new use as fuel cell material
In Colorado, researchers have developed a process for using brewery wastewater to create carbon-based fuel cell materials. The breakthrough could help brewers reduce the need for costly wastewater treatment. The University of Colorado Boulder researchers cultivated the fast-growing fungus Neurospora crassa in sugar-rich brewery wastewater and were able to dictate the fungus’s chemical and physical properties to create naturally-derived lithium-ion battery electrodes. Read More
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A Battery Made from Beer
Well not quite, although some home brewers might find the idea of a battery made from beer appealing. ACS Publications reports researchers at University of Colorado Boulder have found a way to convert wastewater from the brewing process into green electrodes. Read More
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From Beer to Battery –Turning Brewery Wastewater Into Energy
What do beer breweries and batteries have in common? If you’re an engineer at the University of Colorado Boulder, both represent an opportunity for an innovative bio-manufacturing process to create more efficient and sustainable energy storage cells — i.e. batteries. Read More
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Beery wastewater gets an electrifying new life
According to the University of Colorado Boulder, breweries go through about seven barrels of water for every barrel of beer produced. All that leftover wastewater can't just be dumped in the sewer – it has to be filtered first, which can be expensive. Now, however, the university says that there may be a new use for the water. It could be used to grow a fungus that's in turn made into "green" battery electrodes. Read More
