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Bioethanol processing from wheat straw: investment appraisal of a full-scale UK biofuel refinery Open

Geoffrey P. Hammond, Niall McCann · 2022

An indicative economic appraisal of a biorefinery investment has been undertaken for the case of an archetypal, full-scale process plant based on bioethanol production from wheat straw: a cellulosic co-product or 'waste' stream. A 'life-cy…

Small-Scale Combined Heat and Power Systems: The Prospects for a Distributed Micro-Generator in the ‘Net-Zero’ Transition within the UK Open

Geoffrey P. Hammond, Adam A. Titley · 2022

Small-scale combined heat and power (micro-CHP or mCHP) plants generate heat in the process of localised electricity production that can usefully be captured and employed for domestic space and water heating. Studies of the relative merits…

Glasgow climate pact: a step on the way towards a lower carbon dioxide world Open

Geoffrey P. Hammond, M. Newborough · 2022

Geoffrey Hammond at the University of Bath and Marcus Newborough of ITM Power review what happened at the UN climate change conference in Glasgow last year, and what the resulting ‘Glasgow climate pact’ means for global warming and climate…

Editorial Open

Geoffrey P. Hammond · 2021

the run-up to the critically important 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) to be held in Glasgow, UK over 31 October-12 November 2021.It is being organised by the UK government in partnership with Italy, and will bring…

Industrial energy use and decarbonisation in the glass sector: A UK perspective Open

Paul W. Griffin, Geoffrey P. Hammond, Russell McKenna · 2021

The prospects for ‘green steel’ making in a net-zero economy: A UK perspective Open

Paul W. Griffin, Geoffrey P. Hammond · 2021

Indicative energy technology assessment of hydrogen processing from biogenic municipal waste Open

Geoffrey P. Hammond, Rachel E. Owen, Richard R. Rathbone · 2020

An Indicative Appraisal of Hydrogen Production from Biogenic Municipal Waste Open

Geoffrey P. Hammond, Rachel E. Owen, Richard R. Rathbone · 2020

An indicative appraisal has been undertaken of a combined Anaerobic Digestion (AD) and Steam Methane Reforming (SMR) process to produce hydrogen (H2) from organic waste.The AD plant was based on the plant in Tilburg (The Netherlands), and …

Socio-technical transitions in UK electricity: part 1 – history, actors and pathways Open

Timothy J. Foxon, Geoffrey P. Hammond, Peter J. G. Pearson · 2020

A large interdisciplinary consortium of engineers, social scientists and policy analysts has developed three low-emissions, more-electric transition pathways for the UK. The approach is based on earlier work on understanding transitions, a…

Socio-technical transitions in UK electricity: part 2 – technologies and sustainability Open

Timothy J. Foxon, Geoffrey P. Hammond, Peter J. G. Pearson · 2020

A large interdisciplinary consortium of engineers, social scientists and policy analysts has developed three low-emissions, more-electric transition pathways for the UK. The approach is based on earlier work on understanding transitions, a…

Editorial Open

Geoffrey P. Hammond · 2020

Indicative appraisal of clustered micro-generators for a low-carbon transition in the UK building sector Open

Stephen Allen, Benjamin Cohen, Geoffrey P. Hammond · 2020

Building ‘zero carbon’ homes will be essential for achieving the carbon reductions within industrialised countries required to meet their commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. Such high performance buildings may nee…

BMC Energy: a home for all energy and fuels research Open

Harriet E. Manning, Jo‐Shu Chang, Huazhen Fang, Geoffrey P. Hammond, Yongheng Yang , et al. · 2019

This editorial accompanies the full launch of the latest new BMC Series journal, BMC Energy. Written jointly by the journal Section Editors, the Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board and the Editor at Springer Nature, this editorial outlin…

Bioenergy utilization for a low carbon future in the UK: the evaluation of some alternative scenarios and projections Open

Patrick E. Allen, Geoffrey P. Hammond · 2019

Energy security and climate change mitigation are two of the most significant challenges facing governments in countries across the world. The United Kingdom (UK) government therefore passed the 2008 Climate Change Act that legally commits…

Industrial energy use and carbon emissions reduction in the iron and steel sector: A UK perspective Open

Paul W. Griffin, Geoffrey P. Hammond · 2019

Editorial Open

Geoffrey P. Hammond · 2019

Energy saving potential of high temperature heat pumps in the UK Food and Drink sector Open

Sam Cooper, Geoffrey P. Hammond, Neil Hewitt, Jonathan Norman, S.A. Tassou , et al. · 2019

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Addressing GHG emissions from industry is vital to achieving decarbonisation targets. However, finding alternatives to many i…

Analysis of the potential for energy demand and carbon emissionsreduction in the iron and steel sector Open

Paul W. Griffin, Geoffrey P. Hammond · 2019

The opportunities and challenges to reducing industrial energy demand and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the iron & steel sector are evaluated with a focus is on the situation in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland …

Environmental and resource burdens associated with low carbon, more electric transition pathways to 2050: Footprint components from carbon emissions and land use to waste arisings and water consumption Open

Geoffrey P. Hammond, Hayley R. Howard, Hanumant Singh Rana · 2019

Environmental or ‘ecological’ footprints have been widely used in recent years as indicators of resource consumption and waste absorption transformed on the basis of biologically productive land area [in global hectares (gha)] required per…

A comparative thermodynamic evaluation of bioethanol processing from wheat straw Open

Geoffrey P. Hammond, Ross V.M. Mansell · 2018

The thermodynamic implications of different bioethanol production routes from wheat straw (a cellulosic co-product or 'waste' stream) have been evaluated. Comparative thermodynamic (energy and exergy) analysis gives rise to alternative ins…

‘Decarbonising’ UK industry: towards a cleaner economy Open

Sam Cooper, Geoffrey P. Hammond · 2018

Reducing industrial energy demand and improving resource efficiency could make a substantial contribution towards the UK government's goal of achieving 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, while simultaneously improving produ…

Industrial energy, materials and products: UK decarbonisation challenges and opportunities Open

John Barrett, Tim Cooper, Geoffrey P. Hammond, Nick Pidgeon · 2018

The United Kingdom (UK) has placed itself on a transition pathway towards a low carbon economy and society, through the imposition of a legally-binding target aimed at reducing its ‘greenhouse gas’ (GHG) emissions by 80% by 2050 against a …

Industrial decarbonisation of the pulp and paper sector: A UK perspective Open

Paul W. Griffin, Geoffrey P. Hammond, Jonathan Norman · 2018

The potential for reducing industrial energy demand and 'greenhouse gas' (GHG) emissions in the Pulp and Paper sector (hereinafter denoted as the paper industry) has been evaluated within a United Kingdom (UK) context, although the lessons…

Environmental and resource burdens associated with an urban community and its surrounding bioregion Open

Geoffrey P. Hammond, Trevor Iddenden, Jane Wildblood · 2017

Environmental or 'ecological' footprints have been widely used in recent years as partial indicators of sustainability; specifically of resource consumption and waste absorption transformed on the basis of the biologically productive land …

Thermodynamic analysis of bioethanol production from wheat straw Open

Geoffrey P. Hammond, Ross V.M. Mansell · 2017

The thermodynamic implications of different bioethanol production routes from wheat straw (a cellulosic co-product or 'waste' stream) have been evaluated. Thermodynamic (energy and exergy) analysis gives rise to alternative insights into t…

An empirical assessment of sector-level exergy analysis Open

Sam Cooper, Geoffrey P. Hammond, Jonathan Norman · 2017

Transition pathways for a UK low-carbon electricity system: Comparing scenarios and technology implications Open

J. Barton, Lloyd Davies, Ben Dooley, Timothy J. Foxon, Stuart Galloway , et al. · 2017

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/) This is an extended and updated version of a paper originally presented \n at the 10th Conference on Sustainable Development o…

Industrial energy use and carbon emissions reduction in the chemicals sector: A UK perspective Open

Paul W. Griffin, Geoffrey P. Hammond, Jonathan Norman · 2017

The opportunities and challenges to reducing industrial energy demand and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the Chemicals sector are evaluated with a focus on the situation in the United Kingdom (UK), although the lessons learned are appli…

Realising transition pathways to a low-carbon future Open

Geoffrey P. Hammond, Peter J. G. Pearson · 2017

Thermodynamic insights and assessment of the ‘circular economy’ Open

Sam Cooper, Jannik Giesekam, Geoffrey P. Hammond, Jonathan Norman, Anne Owen , et al. · 2017

This study analyses the effect on energy use of applying a wide range of circular economy approaches. By collating evidence on specific quantifiable approaches and then calculating and analyzing their combined full supply chain impacts thr…

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