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The Materials Processing Institute has welcomed a recommendation to the UK Government to “commit to a pilot of hydrogen-based steel production in the UK as part of its industrial decarbonisation strategy”.
Published: November 5th, 2021
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Buildings contribute a significant proportion of the UK’s carbon emissions and play a key role in achieving net zero emissions targets. This POSTbrief explores the emissions associated with buildings, from design to end of life, and presents an overview of the opportunities for reducing their carbon impact.
Published: November 5th, 2021
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In collaboration with British Glass, Glass Futures, Calumite Ltd and the Materials Processing Institute Energy-intensive industries such as glass manufacturing and steelmaking face significant challenges in reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions. For example, heat during blast furnace hot metal and slag tapping dissipates into the atmosphere and is currently not recovered/utilised and, in glass […]
Published: November 3rd, 2021
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In collaboration with Pilkington NSG Of all the ‘enablers’ of transformation, digitisation and control offers the greatest potential to impact across multiple FI sectors and its benefits of reduced plant downtime and energy and raw material savings are clear. Implementation however, deviates significantly from the classic skill sets associated with the foundation industries, requiring knowledge […]
Published: November 3rd, 2021
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In collaboration with StanRocc The pulp and paper industry is seen as one of the most polluting of the 6 Foundation Industries and needs urgent attention to achieve circularity. Recycled paper produces 73% less air pollution than paper made from wood pulps which yields a significant amount of waste, collectively referred to as pulp and […]
Published: November 3rd, 2021
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In collaboration with Econotherm Energy efficiency is among the most important keys to unlock a green and more sustainable economy and a substantial amount of energy can be saved via the reuse of waste heat. Exploitation of waste heat streams has already been investigated mainly relying on forced or natural convection as a heat transfer […]
Published: November 3rd, 2021
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In collaboration with Kelvin Thermotech Ltd and the Confederation of British Metalforming The industrial sector in the UK accounts for ~17 % of its overall energy consumption, the majority of which is in the form of heat (BEIS, 2017). Waste heat recovery (WHR) and reuse are thus the next frontiers for energy-intensive industries. Thermal energy […]
Published: November 3rd, 2021
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Antonius Schröder presents ‘Skills Alliance for Industrial Symbiosis – A Cross-sectoral Blueprint for a Sustainable Process Industry’
Published: November 3rd, 2021
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UKCCSRC are pleased to announce the return of web events on Wednesday 3rd November, with two special launch events planned on the first week on 3rd and 4th November, to celebrate COP26. UKCCSRC will then be running our web events on a regular basis going forward. The first hour of each session will be presentations […]
Published: November 3rd, 2021
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1st – 2nd December 2021 Register to attend SUSTAIN’s virtual conference aims to raise awareness of the ongoing work in the Hub; how the research is supporting the steel industry and its supply chains in the UK, and to share best practice. The event will comprise of talks related to the five SUSTAIN themes from […]
Published: October 26th, 2021
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