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Development of an open-source carbon footprint calculator of the UK craft brewing value chain (2023)
Journal Article
Bowler, A. L., Rodgers, S., Meng, F., McKechnie, J., Cook, D. J., & Watson, N. J. (2024). Development of an open-source carbon footprint calculator of the UK craft brewing value chain. Journal of Cleaner Production, 435, Article 140181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.140181

Craft breweries may fall behind large brewing companies in reducing the carbon footprints of their value chains due to limited resources, financial constraints, and a lack of technical knowledge to fully understand their emissions. However, by increa... Read More about Development of an open-source carbon footprint calculator of the UK craft brewing value chain.

Solutions for recycling emerging wind turbine blade waste in China are not yet effective (2023)
Journal Article
Yang, J., Meng, F., Zhang, L., McKechnie, J., Chang, Y., Ma, B., …Cullen, J. M. (2023). Solutions for recycling emerging wind turbine blade waste in China are not yet effective. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), Article 466. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01104-w

Wind power supply chains are evolving as markets expand to reach climate goals. With the largest installed wind power capacity globally, China must deal with increasing composite turbine waste and anticipate its associated costs. Here we predict the... Read More about Solutions for recycling emerging wind turbine blade waste in China are not yet effective.

Comparative techno-economic and life cycle analyses of synthetic “drop-in” fuel production from UK wet biomass (2023)
Journal Article
Lilonfe, S., Dimitriou, I., Davies, B., Abdul-Manan, A. F., & McKechnie, J. (2024). Comparative techno-economic and life cycle analyses of synthetic “drop-in” fuel production from UK wet biomass. Chemical Engineering Journal, 479, Article 147516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2023.147516

Renewable synthetic hydrocarbon “drop-in” fuels can help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from transport, particularly in hard-to-abate sectors like freight and aviation. However, no study has extensively addressed the concerns over biomass availabi... Read More about Comparative techno-economic and life cycle analyses of synthetic “drop-in” fuel production from UK wet biomass.

Estimating the environmental impacts of global lithium-ion battery supply chain: A temporal, geographical, and technological perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Llamas-Orozco, J. A., Meng, F., Walker, G. S., Abdul-Manan, A. F. N., MacLean, H. L., Posen, I. D., & McKechnie, J. (2023). Estimating the environmental impacts of global lithium-ion battery supply chain: A temporal, geographical, and technological perspective. PNAS Nexus, 2(11), Article pgad361. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad361

A sustainable low-carbon transition via electric vehicles will require a comprehensive understanding of lithium-ion batteries’ global supply chain environmental impacts. Here, we analyze the cradle-to-gate energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of c... Read More about Estimating the environmental impacts of global lithium-ion battery supply chain: A temporal, geographical, and technological perspective.

A surrogate model for the economic evaluation of renewable hydrogen production from biomass feedstocks via supercritical water gasification (2023)
Journal Article
Rodgers, S., Bowler, A., Wells, L., Siah Lee, C., Hayes, M., Poulston, S., …Conradie, A. (2024). A surrogate model for the economic evaluation of renewable hydrogen production from biomass feedstocks via supercritical water gasification. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 49(A), 277-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.08.016

Supercritical water gasification is a promising technology for renewable hydrogen production from high moisture content biomass. This work produces a machine learning surrogate model to predict the Levelised Cost of Hydrogen over a range of biomass c... Read More about A surrogate model for the economic evaluation of renewable hydrogen production from biomass feedstocks via supercritical water gasification.

Probabilistic commodity price projections for unbiased techno-economic analyses (2023)
Journal Article
Rodgers, S., Bowler, A., Meng, F., Poulston, S., McKechnie, J., & Conradie, A. (2023). Probabilistic commodity price projections for unbiased techno-economic analyses. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 122, Article 106065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2023.106065

Techno-economic analysis is a core methodology for assessing the feasibility of new technologies and processes. The outcome of an analysis is largely dictated by the product's price, as selected by the practitioner. Representative future price distri... Read More about Probabilistic commodity price projections for unbiased techno-economic analyses.