Imperial College London
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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{Al-Ansari:2017:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.097,
author = {Al-Ansari, T and Korre, A and Nie, Z and Shah, N},
doi = {10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.097},
journal = {Journal of Cleaner Production},
pages = {1592--1606},
title = {Integration of greenhouse gas control technologies within the energy, water and food nexus to enhance the environmental performance of food production systems},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.097},
volume = {162},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The sustainability of food production systems is inherently linked with energy, water and food (EWF) resources directly and in-directly throughout their lifecycle. The understanding of the interdependencies between the three resource sectors in the context of food production can provide a measurable account for resource requirements, while meeting food security objectives. The energy, water and food Nexus tool developed by the authors has been designed to model the inter-dependency between energy, water and food resources, whilst conducting an environmental assessment of product systems. With emphasis on the inter-linkages between EWF resources, the tool quantifies material flows, natural resource and energy consumption at component unit process level. This work integrates greenhouse gas control and waste to power technologies within the energy, water and food Nexus tool and evaluates the environmental impact of a hypothetical food product system designed to deliver a perceived level of food self-sufficiency (40%) for the State of Qatar. Multiple system configurations, representative of different pathways for the delivery of consistent food products are evaluated, transforming a once linear product system into a circular design. The sub-systems added consist of a biomass integrated gasification combined cycle which recycles solid waste into useful forms of energy that can be re-used within the nexus. In addition, a carbon capture sub-system is integrated to capture and recycle CO2 from both the fossil fuel powered and the biomass integrated gasification combined cycle energy sub-systems. The integration of carbon capture with the biomass integrated gasification combined cycle transforms the carbon neutral biomass integrated gasification combined cycle process to a negative greenhouse gas emission technology known as bio-energy with carbon capture and storage. For the different scenarios and sub-system configurations considered, the global warming potential can be th
AU  - Al-Ansari,T
AU  - Korre,A
AU  - Nie,Z
AU  - Shah,N
DO  - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.097
EP  - 1606
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 0959-6526
SP  - 1592
TI  - Integration of greenhouse gas control technologies within the energy, water and food nexus to enhance the environmental performance of food production systems
T2  - Journal of Cleaner Production
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.097
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652617312684
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/49123
VL  - 162
ER  -
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