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Biowaste to biochar: a techno-economic and life cycle assessment of biochar production from food-waste digestate and its agricultural field application (2025)
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Gamaralalage, D., Rodgers, S., Gill, A., Meredith, W., Bott, T., West, H., Alce, J., Snape, C., & McKechnie, J. (2025). Biowaste to biochar: a techno-economic and life cycle assessment of biochar production from food-waste digestate and its agricultural field application. Biochar, 7(1), Article 50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42773-025-00456-0

Biochar has high potential for long-term atmospheric carbon storage in terrestrial environments, contributing to meeting the UK and global greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. This study investigates the greenhouse gas emissions and techno-econ... Read More about Biowaste to biochar: a techno-economic and life cycle assessment of biochar production from food-waste digestate and its agricultural field application.

The effect of high pressure on hydrocarbon generation from Type-I kerogen source rocks: Implications for petroleum system evolution (2025)
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Khairy, A., Uguna, C. N., Vane, C. H., El Diasty, W. S., Peters, K. E., Snape, C. E., Farouk, S., & Meredith, W. (2025). The effect of high pressure on hydrocarbon generation from Type-I kerogen source rocks: Implications for petroleum system evolution. International Journal of Coal Geology, 300, Article 104708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2025.104708

This study examines the effect of high water pressure (up to 900 bar) on hydrocarbon generation from Type-I kerogen-rich source rocks and compares the results with previously observed effects on Type-II and Type-III kerogens. An immature Type-I oil s... Read More about The effect of high pressure on hydrocarbon generation from Type-I kerogen source rocks: Implications for petroleum system evolution.

GC-MS analysis of alkylpyrazines in the pyrolysis oils of silica-polyethylenimine CO2 sorbents (2023)
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Coralli, I., Spada, L., Fabbri, D., Pour, S. R. S., Fiori, J., Vassura, I., Stefanidis, S., Lappas, A., Stevens, L. A., & Snape, C. E. (2024). GC-MS analysis of alkylpyrazines in the pyrolysis oils of silica-polyethylenimine CO2 sorbents. Journal of Chromatography Open, 5, Article 100108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcoa.2023.100108

Solid sorbents based on silica and polyethyleneimine (PEI) are intensively investigated in the field of carbon capture and storage (CCS). Pyrolysis was proposed as a thermal process to recover the pure silica from exhausted sorbents and convert PEI i... Read More about GC-MS analysis of alkylpyrazines in the pyrolysis oils of silica-polyethylenimine CO2 sorbents.

Valorization Strategies in CO2 Capture: A New Life for Exhausted Silica-Polyethylenimine (2023)
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Coralli, I., Giuri, D., Spada, L., Ortolani, J., Mazzocchetti, L., Tomasini, C., Stevens, L. A., Snape, C. E., & Fabbri, D. (2023). Valorization Strategies in CO2 Capture: A New Life for Exhausted Silica-Polyethylenimine. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(19), Article 14415. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241914415

The search for alternative ways to give a second life to materials paved the way for detailed investigation into three silica-polyethylenimine (Si-PEI) materials for the purpose of CO2 adsorption in carbon capture and storage. A solvent extraction pr... Read More about Valorization Strategies in CO2 Capture: A New Life for Exhausted Silica-Polyethylenimine.

Low-temperature chemical looping oxidation of hydrogen for space heating (2023)
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Güleç, F., Okolie, J. A., Clough, P. T., Erdogan, A., Meredith, W., & Snape, C. E. (2023). Low-temperature chemical looping oxidation of hydrogen for space heating. Journal of the Energy Institute, 110, Article 101355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joei.2023.101355

Chemical looping combustion (CLC) is an advanced combustion process in which the combustion reaction splits into two parts; in the first reaction metal oxides are used as oxygen suppliers for fuel combustion and then in the second reaction, reduced m... Read More about Low-temperature chemical looping oxidation of hydrogen for space heating.

Biochar application to temperate grasslands: challenges and opportunities for delivering multiple ecosystem services (2023)
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Brown, R. W., Chadwick, D. R., Bott, T., West, H. M., Wilson, P., Hodgins, G. R., Snape, C. E., & Jones, D. L. (2023). Biochar application to temperate grasslands: challenges and opportunities for delivering multiple ecosystem services. Biochar, 5(1), Article 33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42773-023-00232-y

Grasslands (natural, semi-natural and improved) occupy approximately one-third of the terrestrial biosphere and are key for global ecosystem service provision, storing up to 30% of soil organic carbon (SOC). To date, most research on soil carbon (C)... Read More about Biochar application to temperate grasslands: challenges and opportunities for delivering multiple ecosystem services.

Geochemical assessment and hydrocarbon potential of Oligocene–Pliocene source rocks from northeast onshore Nile Delta, Egypt (2023)
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Khairy, A., El Diasty, W. S., Uguna, C. N., Peters, K. E., Vane, C. H., Snape, C. E., & Meredith, W. (2023). Geochemical assessment and hydrocarbon potential of Oligocene–Pliocene source rocks from northeast onshore Nile Delta, Egypt. International Journal of Coal Geology, 274, Article 104283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2023.104283

Recent exploration in the Nile Delta Basin has led to major oil and gas discoveries; however, source–reservoir relationships in the onshore part of the basin are still ambiguous. This work involves a comprehensive geochemical assessment of possible O... Read More about Geochemical assessment and hydrocarbon potential of Oligocene–Pliocene source rocks from northeast onshore Nile Delta, Egypt.

CO2 capture from fluid catalytic crackers via chemical looping combustion: Regeneration of coked catalysts with oxygen carriers (2023)
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Güleç, F., Meredith, W., & Snape, C. E. (2023). CO2 capture from fluid catalytic crackers via chemical looping combustion: Regeneration of coked catalysts with oxygen carriers. Journal of the Energy Institute, 107, Article 101187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joei.2023.101187

Oil refineries are responsible for ∼5% of total global CO2 emissions and approximately 25–35% of these emissions are released from a single unit called Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC). Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) has been recently proposed as a... Read More about CO2 capture from fluid catalytic crackers via chemical looping combustion: Regeneration of coked catalysts with oxygen carriers.

Analytical pyrolysis of polyethyleneimines (2022)
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Coralli, I., Fabbri, D., Facchin, A., Torri, C., Stevens, L. A., & Snape, C. E. (2023). Analytical pyrolysis of polyethyleneimines. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 169, Article 105838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaap.2022.105838

Poly(ethylene imine) is a family of polymers with a high content of amine groups employed in various applications and widely investigated as CO2 adsorbents in carbon capture and sequestration. In this study, five branched polyethylenimines (PEIs) of... Read More about Analytical pyrolysis of polyethyleneimines.

Regenerability of fly-ash derived zeolite NaP1: Evaluation via copper recovery (2022)
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Ankrah, A. F., Tokay, B., & Snape, C. E. (2023). Regenerability of fly-ash derived zeolite NaP1: Evaluation via copper recovery. Engineering Reports, 5(4), Article e12591. https://doi.org/10.1002/eng2.12591

Effective regeneration of adsorbents is considered as one of the essential qualities for commercial use. However, most of the studies have only reported the adsorption properties and overlooked the reuse of adsorbents. In this study, we determined th... Read More about Regenerability of fly-ash derived zeolite NaP1: Evaluation via copper recovery.