Charles Banks

Research interests

Controlled anaerobic and aerobic biodegradation of municipal and industrial solid wastes

Concepts for an integrated farming system for non competitive food and fuel production

Energy production from digestion of crops and agricultural wastes

Research

Research interests

Controlled anaerobic and aerobic biodegradation of municipal and industrial solid wastes
Concepts for an integrated farming system for non competitive food and fuel production
Energy production from digestion of crops and agricultural wastes
Provision of software tools for process energy balances, waste audit and waste management
Treatment of liquid industrial effluents by biological systems

Research projects

Completed projects

RELU - Integrated Systems for Farm Diversification into Energy Production by Anaerobic Digestion

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Professor Guy Baverstock-Poppy

Sponsor: ESRC

Banks - Biogas production from high volume industrial effluents at ambient temperatures (AmbiGAS)

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Emeritus Professor Sonia Heaven

Sponsor: Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council

C Banks - Recycling nutrient resources in waste for food security and environmental sustainability

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Emeritus Professor Sonia Heaven

Sponsor: Natural Environment Research Council

Banks - EPSRC - Increasing energy yield from the integration of anaerobic digestion and pyrolysis - Supergen Aston lead

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Emeritus Professor Sonia Heaven

Sponsor: EPSRC

Anaerobic Digestion Network

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Sponsor: Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council

C Banks 2014 - Fiberight BBSRC LBNet (BIV)

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Sponsor: Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council

BBSRC POC's

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Sponsor: Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council

C Banks 2015 - Bio-methane production from urban organic matter

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Emeritus Professor Sonia Heaven ,

Professor Timothy Leighton

Sponsor: Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council

C Banks 2015 - Biomethanisation of CO2

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Emeritus Professor Sonia Heaven ,

Doctor Yue Zhang

Sponsor: EPSRC

Plants to Products BBSRC NIBB BIV: Continuous Pulping of Plant-Derived Waste Lignocellulosic Biomass

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Sponsor: Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council

Reducing contamination risk and increasing yields in the production of platform sugars from UK MSW

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Sponsor: Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council

Internal BIVs

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Emeritus Professor Sonia Heaven

Sponsor: Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council

C Banks - LUTRA OPT

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Sponsor: Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council

CROPGEN

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Sponsor: European Union

All-Gas-EU FP7-C.Banks

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Emeritus Professor Sonia Heaven

Sponsor: European Union

ECOFUEL - Marie Curie IRSES

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Sponsor: European Union

Platform Grants

Researchers:

Professor William Powrie

Professor David Richards ,

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Sponsor: EPSRC

External roles and responsibilities

Name: Biogas:Research needs and the potential contribution to European targets.

Role: Keynote speaker

Year: 2012

Name: Future challenges for anaerobic digestion to deliver economically and environmentally sustainable fuel and bioenergy.

Role: Keynote speaker

Year: 2012

Name: Plenary speech at Waste 2010: Waste and Resources Management - Putting Strategy into Practice

Role: Keynote speaker

Year: 2010

Name: Meeting the needs of microbes: the basis of a sound control strategy.

Role: Keynote speaker

Year: 2012

Name: Mass and Energy balance around the Ludlow food waste digester

Role: Invited speaker

Year: 2012

Name: Food waste digestion: understanding the process and its requirements

Role: Invited speaker

Year: 2011

Name: The anaerobic digestion of food waste

Role: Invited speaker

Year: 2011

Name: Microbiology of food waste digestion & effects of trace element additions.

Role: Invited speaker

Year: 2011

Name: Rapporteur, concluding remarks from the ‘workshop on algae: research needs’

Role: Invited speaker

Year: 2011

Name: Matching AD requirements to different feedstocks

Role: Invited speaker

Year: 2011

Emeritus Professor Charles Banks

Research interests

Research

Research interests

Research projects

Completed projects

Publications

External roles and responsibilities