Rachel Smith
Senior Project Manager at Severn Wye Energy Agency
Dr Rachel Smith is Senior Project Manager at Severn Wye Energy Agency and leads the small specialist team delivering biomass and biogas projects. Her current interests include the sustainable utilisation of biomass resources and sustainable agricultural methods, and how these can contribute towards a net zero future, improved biodiversity and ecosystem resilience. The innovative RE-DIRECT project, and its predecessor, COMBINE, have developed technology and process chains for biochar, activated carbon, solid biofuel and biogas production from under-utilised biomass resources.
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Innovative low-carbon technology completes milestone on-farm pilot
Environmentalists, researchers and sustainability pioneers from across Europe convened in North Wales this autumn for an eagerly anticipated summit after three years of intensive research into the on-farm production of biochar - a form of charcoal with multiple agricultural benefits, not least the trapping and storing of carbon dioxide.