Dr Rick Lupton
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath
Friday 18 December 2020
We need to use less of it – but where?
… at least if you want to know more than what kind of container it was sold in.
Mass of cement (kt, UK, 2014)
William Shanks, Cyrille Dunant, Michał Drewniok, Richard Lupton, André Serrenho, Julian Allwood
Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Volume 141, February 2019
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2018.11.002
We could reduce CO2 emissions by ~50%
Mass of cement (kt, UK, 2014)
We don't have good tools for modelling and tracking uncertainty in material production systems.
Applications:
Ana Gonzalez Hernandez, Richard C Lupton, Chris Williams, Jonathan M Cullen https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.02.181
The UK will reach zero emissions in 2050 with today’s technologies:
Allwood, J., Azevedo, J., Clare, A., Cleaver, C., Cullen, J., Dunant, C., Fellin, T., et al. (2019). Absolute Zero. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.46075
Ongoing UK FIRES work: what are the opportunities for UK industry highlighted by these constraints?
Richard Lupton, Julian Allwood. Journal of Industrial Ecology 22(6), 2017.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12698
Thank you for your attention!
Here is a video of the uncertain steel Sankey diagram animating.
Here is a Sankey diagram illustration of UK carbon flows:
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This is the talk I gave at the CSCT Winter Showcase 2020.
I'm a lecturer in the department of Mechanical Engineering here at Bath. I've been here for 2 years.
My background is in dynamics and vibration, and I've worked a lot on onshore and floating offshore wind turbines. But I'm not going to talk about that today – I'm going to start with a story about cement.