Projects

The Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre (AREC) carries out a large number of world-leading, high impact research projects.

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BAE High Level LCA

A framework for conducting an environmental impact assessment across BAE Systems’ Air Sector with a focus on Scope 3 emissions.

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Future Proof Supply Chain Resilience and Security (FPSCRS)

Collaboration between the University of Sheffield and Rolls-Royce aims to help industry and government track and compare facility-level supply chain resilience.

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of IPL Plastics

Establishing the environmental impact of recycling HDPE and PP waste into pellets.

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Reducing Plastic Packaging and Food Waste through Product Innovation Simulation

Helping businesses, the government, and others to understand the most effective and innovative ways to reduce food waste and plastic packaging waste.

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PhD Project - Enhanced Rock Weathering

Evaluation of the environmental impacts of the potential large-scale deployment of ERW, considering different energy policy scenarios and supply chains in each country.

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Responsive Manufacturing of High Value Thin to Thick Films

Refining and unifying the non-systematic approach to the manufacturing process of high-value flexible electronic films.

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Life Cycle Assessment of Renewable-based Power Plants

Addressing the existing gaps in environmental assessments of combined renewable power cycles, an area that hasn't received widespread attention from other researchers.

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Life Cycle Supply Chain Assessment of Different Heat Pump Technologies

A comprehensive supply chain assessment based on the UK heat pump market and demand and prepared a forecasting evaluation based on the net zero roadmaps in the UK for each decade from 2030 to 2050.

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Life cycle supply chain assessment of different hydrogen production technologies

A study developing various supply chain scenarios of green hydrogen production technologies and evaluating their environmental impacts.

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Hydrogen supply chain resilience

Creating a new framework for guiding and improving the resiliency, sustainability, and circularity of the hydrogen supply chains.

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South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre (SYSC)

Bringing together experts implementing solutions which balance environmental, economic and social sustainability to solve serious challenges.

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BBSRC Funded H3 (Healthy Soil, Healthy Food, Healthy People)

Transformation of the UK food system by placing healthy people and a healthy natural environment at its centre.

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H2020 GoF4R

Strategy to enhance door-to-door mobility services using any form of transportation service.

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COSTA/Whitbread Project

Extensive investigation in the recyclability and disposal of paper coffee cups in collaboration with COSTA.

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Pea crops at a farm in South East England, cultivated with basalt

N8 AGRIFOOD

The eight most research-intensive universities in the north of England collaborated to tackle the biggest global challenges to provide a sustainable, resilient, and healthy food supply for society as a whole.

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Training for Energy Efficient Operation (TrainERGY)

Developing an innovative and evidence-based framework transforming the skillset provided by the academic institutions to obtain Energy Efficient Operations.

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Blockchain and Intelligent Mobility

Exploring the transformational potential of such a distributed ledger system (Blockchain) for future enterprises, logistics and supply chains.

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EPSRC SIMULIFE

Cradle-to-Grave Life Cycle Prediction of Automotive Materials and Systems in Service: Impact of Ageing on Performance (SIMULIFE) project.

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Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation (LC3M)

World-class experts at the University of Sheffield, and leading UK and international collaborators working on investigating enhanced rock weathering with croplands as a strategy for safely removing the greenhouse gas CO2 from the atmosphere.

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STFC Agrifood Network+

Interdisciplinary research into providing sustainable and safe food supply in the context of global climate change and declining natural resources.

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EPSRC SubST Project

Investigation into the ‘Substitution and Sustainability in Functional Materials and Devices’.

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TRANSENERGY - Road to Rail Energy Exchange (R2REE)

New technology, infrastructure and system to develop a connected network of sustainable electrically powered rail transport systems and electric road vehicles (EVs).

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Promoting Sustainable Freight Transport in Urban Context: Policy and Decision-making Approaches (PROSFET)

Aiming to improve decision-making in the urban freight sector by delivering decision support tools.

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EU-India Research and Innovation Partnership for Efficient and Sustainable Freight Transportation (REINVEST)

Creating more efficient, environmentally friendly, financially, and socially sustainable collaboration in freight transportation between the EU and India.

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EPSRC DARE Project: Designing Alloys for Resource Efficiency - A Manufacturing Approach

A large research collaboration investigating resource efficient methods of designing and manufacturing metal alloys.

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Civil Nuclear Value Chain Management: in Partnership with Rolls-Royce

A large-scale programme of supplier development and manufacturing research in partnership with Rolls-Royce.

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UK Agrifood Value Chain Risk Analysis (AVCRA)

Identification and analysis of the socio-environmental and geopolitical risk profile of UK agri-food value chains.

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Life Cycle Assessment of CFRP Aircraft Fuselage

A life-cycle assessment within the aeronautical industry to calculate its environmental impact.

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Sustainability and Substitution in Functional Materials and Devices

Developing sustainable choices of functional materials and understanding the life cycle of their supply chains.

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Metrics/Indicators, Methodology and Technology of Petrovski Solar Cells

A thorough analysis of photovoltaic solar cells to identify a sustainable solution for generating energy.

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European SMEs' Environmental Sustainability

Mapping the supply chains of several industries and creating models to help EU SMEs with decarbonisation.

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Interrogating UK Wheat Supply Chain Sustainability

Mapping and modelling the UK wheat supply chain.

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Energy Innovation for Deprived Communities

Using innovations to alleviate fuel poverty, stimulate energy efficiency supply chain and low carbon economy in the 10 most deprived communities in the Yorkshire and Humber region.

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Composite Biomaterials LCA

Examining the environmental impact of new composite bio-materials.

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Energy Storage LCA

This project links to the EPSRC funded Energy Storage CDT. It aims to examine the environmental impact of battery supply chains, and develop alternative techno-economic model to account for this impact.

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Noise Contour Analysis and Sustainable Development of UK Aviation

This project analysed and quantified the noise impact of UK airports, and examined stakeholders’ role in sustainable development of UK aviation.

Lithium ion batteries.

Lithium-ion Battery Supply Chain Risk and Resilience: An Automotive Industry Perspective

As part of the low carbon transport network, this White rose funded project analysed the supply chain risk and resilience of lithium-ion battery in the context of an electric vehicle supply chain. A model was proposed to assist organisational decision making in assessing the supply chain risk.

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Green Deal

This DECC funded project examined the Green Deal perceptions with residents in Barnsley, working in partnership with the Barnsley Council. Several ‘show homes’ / case studies were created, coupled with survey analysis, concluding the real experience of Green Deal users.

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Fuel Poverty

As part of the energy efficiency network, this EPSRC funded project investigates the fuel poverty in England. It involves the adoption of an operational research technique and focus groups.

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