October 12, 2016 , Press Coverage

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

October 12, 2016 , Press Coverage

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

October 11, 2016 , Press Coverage

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

October 11, 2016 , Press Coverage

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

October 11, 2016 , Press Coverage

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

October 11, 2016 , Press Coverage

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

October 10, 2016 , Press Coverage

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

October 10, 2016 , Press Coverage

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

October 9, 2016 , Press Coverage

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

October 7, 2016 , Press Coverage

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