Projects
ONGOING May 2025 – CBE-JU-WOODVALOR: C-Source Renewables Secures €3.5M Horizon Europe Grant for AI-Driven Wood Waste Valorization
C-Source Renewables has been awarded its first collaborative CBE JU RIA Horizon Europe grant of €3.5 million to advance AI-powered segregation of wood waste. The company’s innovative process fractionates wood waste into valuable feedstocks, with hemi-cellulose and cellulosic fractions undergoing hydrolysis to produce a glucose-rich syrup. This syrup will serve as a primary feedstock for fermenting lactic acid and lipids using proprietary bacteria and oleaginous yeast, driving sustainable bioproduct development.
ONGOING February 2025 – Industrial/Academic collaboration with IBioIC: C-Source Renewables Partners with University of Edinburgh and IBioIC on Bread Waste Upcycling
C-Source Renewables is collaborating for the third time with Prof. Stephen Wallace at the University of Edinburgh and IBioIC to develop a single-pot conversion process for transforming bread waste into high-value chemicals using engineered bacteria. As part of the project, C-Source has contributed glucose-rich hydrolysates as feedstock, and technical expertise to drive sustainable biomanufacturing solutions.
August 2024 – Ultrasound extraction of polyphenols from waste food streams: C-Source Renewables and Ineuvo Partner on Ultrasound Extraction of Grape and Olive Waste
C-Source Renewables continues its collaboration with Ineuvo to extract valuable polyphenols from grape and olive waste using ultrasound technology. The company employs solvent and ultrasound-assisted extraction methodologies to maximize the recovery of these high-value compounds, supporting sustainable resource utilization.
August 2024 – Pretreatment & Enzymatic hydrolysis of Lignocellulosic biomass: C-Source Renewables and Ineuvo collaborates to develop advanced valorization techniques for conversion of saw dust to Glucose-rich fermentable sugar hydrolysates
C-Source Renewables has partnered with Ineuvo to develop glucose-rich hydrolysates from sawdust. Using a multifactorial design of experiments, the process was optimized to enhance lignin removal and improve hemicellulose and cellulose separation. The pretreated solids were then subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis to produce high-yield glucose-rich hydrolysates. The process was optimized on a bench scale (1L), and successfully demonstrated at 30L reactor volume. The resulting hydrolysates were shipped to international collaborators, advancing research and applications in sustainable biomanufacturing.
July 2024 – Biobased pigments through fungal fermentation: C-Source Renewables and Pitri Ltd Partner on Fungal-Based Pigment Production for Sustainable Fashion
C-Source Renewables is collaborating with Pitri Ltd to explore the feasibility of producing natural pigments using fungi. Leveraging a selection of strains grown on simple sugars, C-Source carried out experimental execution, monitoring sugar uptake, extracting pigments, and quantifying yields. The resulting pigments hold potential applications in the fashion industry, supporting the development of sustainable and bio-based colorants
May 2024 – Scale up of BDO fermentation using bread waste: C-Source Renewables Achieves First Major Academic Collaboration on 2,3-Butanediol Fermentation
C-Source Renewables successfully completed its collaboration with Cranfield University, demonstrating the scalability of its hydrolysates for biomanufacturing. Using EcoLoafTM (glucose rich bread waste hydrolysates), C-Source provided key data for a 20L scale-up fermentation of 2,3-butanediol. This project validated the effectiveness of recycled food waste hydrolysates as a viable feedstock for industrial biotechnology applications.
May 2024 – Removal of sugars from anthocyanin extract from food waste: C-Source Renewables and SAGES London Collaborate on food waste based colorants.
C-Source Renewables partnered with SAGES London to optimize the process for removal of sugars from the pigment extracted from food waste, focusing on anthocyanins. By testing various solvent-solvent, aqueous two phase extraction parameters, C-Source identified the optimal materials and conditions to meet industry requirements. The team analyzed samples to determine sugar concentrations, quantify lipid extraction, and measure pigment yields, supporting the development of efficient and scalable extraction processes.
September 2023 – A.R.T.I.S.T
C-Source Renewables wins its first Innovate UK project in collaboration with Impact Solutions, the University of Edinburgh and Crown Paints. The project looks at the bioproduction of styrene to be used in the paint industry. C-Source’s role in the project was to formulate glucose-rich hydrolysates from bread and potato waste, which became its core products in 2025 with trademarked names of EcoLoafTM and EcoSpudTM. The project has enabled C-Source to scale its production to 8 tons of glucose per annum.
May 2023 – Microbial fermentation from bread and potato waste
C-Source Renewables is working on its first project with the University of Edinburgh and Professor Stephen Wallace. The project investigated the feasibility of C-Source feedstocks for the fermentation of other high-value fermentation products. The project mapped our glucose feedstocks to commercial glucose using NMR studies and identified no inhibition during fermentation with improved growth results.
April 2023 – Cavi-Pulp
C-Source Renewables worked on a collaborative project with the University of Bath to use hydrodynamic cavitation to enhance the extraction of sugars from sugar beet pulp. C-Source renewables conducted all analytical studies of the samples for the various experimental parameters. The results provided by C-Source were vital in determining if a commercial scale-up should be initiated.