Work week 10 has been an eventful one to say the least. It all started with a chain of emails between me and a few representatives of the Hong Kong Beer Co.
For a few months now, my boss has been interested in collecting and researching waste generated from the newly-born craft beer scene in Hong Kong. If you know me, you know this is the perfect project for me. So, I eagerly jumped on the opportunity. I began last week by visiting a few prospective breweries in the area, and was attracted to Hong Kong Beer Co because of its small, microbrewery feel. So I payed a visit to tour the brewery with my parents and make some contacts with the company. This week, a few coworkers and I went back to collect over 65kg of spent grain waste from the brewing process and 10kg of raw grains from before the brewing had started. Out ultimate goal with this feedstock is to see how much biofuel we can produce from it. We will eventually set up a bench-scale process in the lab in which we can pretreat, hydrolyze, ferment, and distill the end products. This experiment will be a fun one, and one that I will primarily lead. I am very excited for the possibilities that lie ahead as I enter my final 3 weeks at PolyU.
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