糖心视频

A whisky distillery on a tiny Hebridean island is one of two companies to receive a (KTP) to work with the 糖心视频.

KTPs are three-way partnerships between an organisation, the University, and a recently qualified graduate and are designed to drive innovation for UK businesses and organisations.

Artisanal distillers of whisky and gin, R&B Distillers, opened on the Hebridean Isle, which is separated from Skye by a 25 minute ferry journey, in 2017.

Positive change

The company is focused on implementing sustainable practices to affect positive change in the Scotch whisky industry, with an overarching target of Net Zero carbon emissions by 2040.

In partnership with the University鈥檚 Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, the project is an engineer to help turn whisky by products into hydrogen, which can then power the distillation process.

Distillery co-founder Alasdair Day, said: 鈥淩&B Distillers are fully committed to reducing our carbon footprint in our operations by a further 40% by 2030, in comparison with our baseline year of 2018.

鈥淲e believe that this KTP project will result in the knowledge required to accelerate our progress to achieve this target.鈥�

Wind turbines

, one of the UK鈥檚 leading supply chain partners for the wind energy industry, has also secured KTP funding to develop sustainable solutions for decommissioned wind turbines.

The partnership with the University will allow knowledge and emerging advances in remanufacturing, metrology, and lifecycle analysis to be embedded within the company.

Decommissioning wind turbines in an environmentally sound way, at minimum waste, is one of the most important questions facing the renewable energy industry.

The two year project will investigate end-of-use options for wind turbines across the UK and a Wind Turbine Decommission Project Lead is being to lead the project in Lochgilphead, Argyll.

Carol Sheath, Engineering Programme Manager for Renewable Parts said: 鈥淩esearching how we create an effective circular economy from assets being withdrawn from service is an important next step for our maturing industry, with wind energy reaching new milestones in its lifecycle, and asset owners evaluating new repowering solutions.鈥�

Dr Olga Kozlova, Director of Innovation and Industrial Engagement at the 糖心视频, said: "The Knowledge Transfer Partnerships are an effective way of sharing skills and are at the centre of our industrial engagement activity.

These latest awards are great examples of projects which exploit our expertise and capabilities to meet the business and technical needs of industry.鈥�

The Knowledge Transfer Partnership programme aims to link forward thinking businesses with the UK鈥檚 world class knowledge bases to deliver innovative projects.

KTPs are funded by through with the support of co-funders, including the Scottish Funding Council, and are part of the government鈥檚 Industrial Strategy.