Dr IOANNA DIMITRIOU's Outputs (7)

Technical, economic and lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions analyses of solid sorbent direct air capture technologies (2025)
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Lilonfe, S., Rodgers, S., Abdul-Manan, A. F., Dimitriou, I., & McKechnie, J. (2025). Technical, economic and lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions analyses of solid sorbent direct air capture technologies. Carbon Capture Science & Technology, 15, Article 100380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccst.2025.100380

Achieving net zero emissions by 2050 will require the development of cost-effective and CO2-efficient direct air capture (DAC) technology to remove atmospheric CO2. This study presents a comprehensive assessment of five solid sorbents under different... Read More about Technical, economic and lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions analyses of solid sorbent direct air capture technologies.

Process optimisation and enviro-economic assessment of carbon-negative hydrogen production from biomass co-gasification (2024)
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Patel, P., Dimitriou, I., Mondal, P., Singh, O., & Gupta, S. (2025). Process optimisation and enviro-economic assessment of carbon-negative hydrogen production from biomass co-gasification. Energy Conversion and Management, 323, 119211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2024.119211

Biomass wastes are abundantly available, yet leveraging these resources for large-scale green energy production requires a comprehensive and strategic evaluation. In this study, an environmentally sustainable and economically viable gasification proc... Read More about Process optimisation and enviro-economic assessment of carbon-negative hydrogen production from biomass co-gasification.

A review of techno-economic analyses and life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of biomass-to-hydrocarbon “drop-in” fuels (2024)
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Lilonfe, S., Davies, B., Abdul-Manan, A. F., Dimitriou, I., & McKechnie, J. (2024). A review of techno-economic analyses and life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of biomass-to-hydrocarbon “drop-in” fuels. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 47, 425-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2024.04.016

Synthetic “drop-in” fuels are compatible with existing fuel and vehicle infrastructures and, when produced sustainably, they could play an important role in mitigating the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) from transportation, especially in the har... Read More about A review of techno-economic analyses and life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of biomass-to-hydrocarbon “drop-in” fuels.

Comparative techno-economic and life cycle analyses of synthetic “drop-in” fuel production from UK wet biomass (2023)
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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.

A comparative techno-economic analysis of combined oil and power production from pyrolysis and co-pyrolysis plants utilizing rice straw and scrap rubber tires (2023)
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Khan, S. R., Zeeshan, M., Fatima, S., Ciolkosz, D., Dimitriou, I., & Jin, H. (2023). A comparative techno-economic analysis of combined oil and power production from pyrolysis and co-pyrolysis plants utilizing rice straw and scrap rubber tires. Fuel, 348, Article 128639. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2023.128639

In this study, three pyrolysis and co-pyrolysis plants processing rice straw (RS) and scrap rubber tire (SRT) to produce oil and power (i.e., electricity) at 30 t/hr capacity are simulated using SuperPro Designer software. The objective of the study... Read More about A comparative techno-economic analysis of combined oil and power production from pyrolysis and co-pyrolysis plants utilizing rice straw and scrap rubber tires.

Alcoholic fermentation of thermochemical and biological hydrolysates derived from Miscanthus biomass by Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 (2019)
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Raut, M. P., Pham, T. K., Gomez, L. D., Dimitriou, I., & Wright, P. C. (2019). Alcoholic fermentation of thermochemical and biological hydrolysates derived from Miscanthus biomass by Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824. Biomass and Bioenergy, 130, Article 105382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2019.105382

© 2019 This laboratory scale study aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of thermochemical and biological saccharification of Miscanthus giganteus (MG) for generation of fermentable saccharides and its subsequent fermentation into solvents i.e. aceto... Read More about Alcoholic fermentation of thermochemical and biological hydrolysates derived from Miscanthus biomass by Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824.

Utilising carbon dioxide for transport fuels: The economic and environmental sustainability of different Fischer-Tropsch process designs (2019)
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Cuéllar-Franca, R., García-Gutiérrez, P., Dimitriou, I., Elder, R. H., Allen, R. W., & Azapagic, A. (2019). Utilising carbon dioxide for transport fuels: The economic and environmental sustainability of different Fischer-Tropsch process designs. Applied Energy, 253, Article 113560. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113560

© 2019 The Authors Producing fuels and chemicals from carbon dioxide (CO2) could reduce our dependence on fossil resources and help towards climate change mitigation. This study evaluates the sustainability of utilising CO2 for production of transpor... Read More about Utilising carbon dioxide for transport fuels: The economic and environmental sustainability of different Fischer-Tropsch process designs.