Norwich Research Park Poster Prizes

 

The Norwich Research Park awarded a £100 prize for the best poster presented at the Conference and £50 for the runner-up.

Winner: Zied Khiari et al, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. Comparison between gelatines extracted from Mackerel and Blue Whiting heads using different organic acids.

Runner-up: L. Bertin et al, University of Bologna / Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Olive oil mill effluents as a renewable resource for production of biodegradable polymers through an anaerobic-aerobic process.

Achor Sponsored Student Registration

Achor Ltd sponsored one student registration at Total Food 2009 for the student who submitted the best abstract for either oral or poster presentation in the area of “Energy Recovery and Biofuels.”

The winner of this prize was Robert Grabarczyk of Warsaw University of Technology, Poland for his poster abstract entitled "Agro-food byproducts and waste as raw materials for two-stage hydrogen fermentation process".

Achor is a technical environmental and social science consultancy and distance learning specialist providing straightforward advice and research on practical microbiological, educational and hygiene related problems.

Its current projects are in the areas of (i) biofuels with no land cost, (ii) protecting fuel systems, (iii) preventing infection from the environment through specialist coatings and (iv) computer contamination.