{"id":29606,"date":"2020-02-18T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=29606"},"modified":"2020-02-18T22:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:00:14","slug":"thyme-project-waste-water-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/thyme-project-waste-water-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"THYME project researches reach the $1.3 million funding mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As 2020 opens up, THYME project will soon reach the $1.3 million funding mark, with the addition of its crop waste to wastewater treatment research,<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>THYME project funding<\/h2>\n<p>In 2019, there were a total of 13 THYME projects in funding. As of 2020, the first on the list for THYME is a wastewater treatment research with the use of pea waste.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biorenewables.org\/thyme-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The THYME project is a collaboration<\/a> of the Universities in Hull, Teeside, and York. It aims to boost bioeconomy in areas like the Humber region, Tees Valley, and Yorkshire.<br \/>\nThe objectives of THYME are mainly categorized into three areas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Converting bio-based waste into new usable products.<\/li>\n<li>Transforming industrial sites into bio-based processing plants.<\/li>\n<li>Expanding the bioeconomy potential of potential regions to contribute to their productivity by bringing in research and business opportunities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Pea waste project<\/h2>\n<p>Universities from\u00a0 York and Hull are collaborating with the R Meadley &amp; Sons farmers to come up with a project that involves making use of crop waste from peas as source material for wastewater treatment.<br \/>\nPea waste will be turned into nano-carbons and nano-celluloses for use in wastewater filtration. The lipids, pectins, and waxes from the pea waste extracts can also be reused for a new home and self-care products.<br \/>\nAccording to Dr. Avtar Matharu from University of York&#8217;s Department of Chemistry,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Discarded food waste product such as peas contain useful enzymes that can be used for other innovative products that can also lessen unneccesarry waste that ends up as carbon footprint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The nano-carbons gathered from pea waste can be a possible alternative to today&#8217;s non-sustainable supply that is used in energy storage, electronics, and drug delivery.<br \/>\nOther important key studies that scientists from THYME are looking into are utilizing starch to develop other products such as vitamin capsules and food-related usage. Also, a study that started in the Philippines that involves converting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/a-wastewater-to-fertilizer-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wastewater into plant fertilizer<\/a> by extracting its phosphorus content.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The THYME project helps boost economic growth by installing sustainable industries gathering raw materials from plants and microbes.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2020 opens up, THYME project will soon reach the $1.3 million funding mark, with the addition of its crop waste to wastewater treatment research, THYME project funding In 2019, there were a total of 13 THYME projects in funding. As of 2020, the first on the list for THYME is a wastewater treatment research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":29614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}