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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.