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Plans for E50m bioprocessing facility revealed |
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Plans for a €50 million bioprocessing facility in Carlow which will be used by Irish universities, Teagasc and businesses to convert biomass materials into products usually made from fossil fuels, like plastics, were unveiled yesterday, August 30th. Prof Jimmy Burke, head of the Crops Research Centre in Oak Park, gave details of the proposed facility at the Bioenergy '07 open day event in Oak Park, which was attended by over 8,000 people. Prof Burke explained that many of the products made from petrochemicals could also be produced using biomass - trees, grass, agricultural crops or other biological material - using new technologies in the 'second-generation' use of biomass. 'With biomass you can grow it, cut it, harvest it and burn it for energy in specially adapted boilers or power stations. The second phase is that before you burn, you take that biomass and put it through a bioprocessing factory, where the high element constituents of the biomass are extracted,' he said.
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