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Steam-treated wood pellets: Environmental and financial implications relative to fossil fuels and conventional pellets for electricity generation (2016)
Journal Article
McKechnie, J., Saville, B., & MacLean, H. L. (2016). Steam-treated wood pellets: Environmental and financial implications relative to fossil fuels and conventional pellets for electricity generation. Applied Energy, 180, 637-649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.08.024

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Steam-treated pellets can help to address technical barriers that limit the uptake of pellets as a fuel for electricity generation, but there is limited understanding of the cost and environmental impacts of their production and u... Read More about Steam-treated wood pellets: Environmental and financial implications relative to fossil fuels and conventional pellets for electricity generation.

Environmental and financial performance of mechanical recycling of carbon fibre reinforced polymers and comparison with conventional disposal routes (2016)
Journal Article
Li, X., Bai, R., & McKechnie, J. (2016). Environmental and financial performance of mechanical recycling of carbon fibre reinforced polymers and comparison with conventional disposal routes. Journal of Cleaner Production, 127, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.139

Recovering value from carbon fibre reinforced polymers waste can help to address the high cost and environmental burden of producing carbon fibres, but there is limited understanding of the cost and environmental implications of potential recycling t... Read More about Environmental and financial performance of mechanical recycling of carbon fibre reinforced polymers and comparison with conventional disposal routes.

Environmental and financial implications of ethanol as a bioethylene feedstock versus as a transportation fuel (2015)
Journal Article
McKechnie, J., Pourbafrani, M., Saville, B. A., & MacLean, H. L. (2015). Environmental and financial implications of ethanol as a bioethylene feedstock versus as a transportation fuel. Environmental Research Letters, 10(12), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/124018

Bulk chemicals production from biomass may compete with biofuels for low-cost and sustainable biomass sources. Understanding how alternative uses of biomass compare in terms of financial and environmental parameters is therefore necessary to help ens... Read More about Environmental and financial implications of ethanol as a bioethylene feedstock versus as a transportation fuel.

Exploring impacts of process technology development and regional factors on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of corn stover ethanol (2014)
Journal Article
McKechnie, J., Pourbafrani, M., Saville, B. A., & MacLean, H. L. (2015). Exploring impacts of process technology development and regional factors on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of corn stover ethanol. Renewable Energy, 76, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2014.11.088

This paper examines impacts of regional factors affecting biomass and process input supply chains and ongoing technology development on the life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of ethanol production from corn stover in the U.S. Corn stover suppl... Read More about Exploring impacts of process technology development and regional factors on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of corn stover ethanol.

Forest carbon accounting methods and the consequences of forest bioenergy for national greenhouse gas emissions inventories (2014)
Journal Article
McKechnie, J., Colombo, S., & MacLean, H. L. (2014). Forest carbon accounting methods and the consequences of forest bioenergy for national greenhouse gas emissions inventories. Environmental Science and Policy, 44, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2014.07.006

While bioenergy plays a key role in strategies for increasing renewable energy deployment, studies assessing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from forest bioenergy systems have identified a potential trade-off of the system with forest carbon stocks. O... Read More about Forest carbon accounting methods and the consequences of forest bioenergy for national greenhouse gas emissions inventories.

Impacts of pre-treatment technologies and co-products on greenhouse gas emissions and energy use of lignocellulosic ethanol production (2014)
Journal Article
Pourbafrani, M., McKechnie, J., Shen, T., Saville, B. A., & MacLean, H. L. (2014). Impacts of pre-treatment technologies and co-products on greenhouse gas emissions and energy use of lignocellulosic ethanol production. Journal of Cleaner Production, 78, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.04.050

Life cycle environmental performance of lignocellulosic ethanol produced through different production pathways and having different co-products has rarely been reported in the literature, with most studies focusing on a single pre-treatment and singl... Read More about Impacts of pre-treatment technologies and co-products on greenhouse gas emissions and energy use of lignocellulosic ethanol production.