GreenTech Start-Up SusBioMe Wins UCD VentureLaunch Accelerator [Video]

GreenTech start-up SusBioMe has been named the overall winner of the 2024 UCD VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme for its development of technology for use in the anaerobic digestion process to increase renewable gas yields from biomass.

The NovaUCD programme aims to support the creation and launch of sustainable and profitable new start-ups at the university.

In the anaerobic digestion process organic feedstocks, including waste, are digested and turned into biogas or biomethane, which can be used like natural gas, but the low digestibility of feedstock is a major bottleneck and leads to unrealised gas yields and low operational efficiency.

SusBioMe, a start-up from the UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, is developing modular, plug-in disruptive electro-processing technologies to make feedstocks more biodigestible.

By the direct applications of electric fields, the SusBioME technology physically disrupts feedstocks, which efficiently make them more biodigestible, leading to gas yield improvements of up to 30% for renewable gas producers along with reduced operational costs and increased revenues.

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