Imperial College London
Alternate

Professor Nilay Shah OBE FREng

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering

Professor of Process Systems Engineering
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 6621n.shah

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Jessica Baldock +44 (0)20 7594 5699

 
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Location

 

ACEX 522ACE ExtensionSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Durkin:2019:10.1002/open.201900015,
author = {Durkin, A and Taptygin, I and Kong, Q and Mukhtar, Gunam Resul MF and Rehman, A and Lopez, Fernandez AM and Harvey, A and Shah, N and Guo, M},
doi = {10.1002/open.201900015},
journal = {ChemistryOpen},
pages = {668--688},
title = {Scale-up and sustainability evaluation of biopolymer production from citrus waste offering carbon capture and utilisation pathway},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/open.201900015},
volume = {8},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Poly(limonene carbonate) (PLC) has been highlighted as an attractive substitute to petroleum derived plastics, due to its utilisation of CO2 and bio-based limonene as feedstocks, offering an effective carbon capture and utilisation pathway. Our study investigates the techno-economic viability and environmental sustainability of a novel process to produce PLC from citrus waste derived limonene, coupled with an anaerobic digestion process to enable energy cogeneration and waste recovery maximisation. Computational process design was integrated with a life cycle assessment to identify the sustainability improvement opportunities. PLC production was found to be economically viable, assuming sufficient citrus waste is supplied to the process, and environmentally preferable to polystyrene (PS) in various impact categories including climate change. However, it exhibited greater environmental burdens than PS across other impact categories, although the environmental performance could be improved with a waste recovery system, at the cost of a process design shift towards energy generation. Finally, our study quantified the potential contribution of PLC to mitigating the escape of atmospheric CO2 concentration from the planetary boundary. We emphasise the importance of a holistic approach to process design and highlight the potential impacts of biopolymers, which is instrumental in solving environmental problems facing the plastic industry and building a sustainable circular economy.
AU  - Durkin,A
AU  - Taptygin,I
AU  - Kong,Q
AU  - Mukhtar,Gunam Resul MF
AU  - Rehman,A
AU  - Lopez,Fernandez AM
AU  - Harvey,A
AU  - Shah,N
AU  - Guo,M
DO  - 10.1002/open.201900015
EP  - 688
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 2191-1363
SP  - 668
TI  - Scale-up and sustainability evaluation of biopolymer production from citrus waste offering carbon capture and utilisation pathway
T2  - ChemistryOpen
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/open.201900015
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/67369
VL  - 8
ER  -
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