Super sustainable processes: making green hydrogen from waste.
December 17, 2020
Chai Lee (Jesslyn) is a Research Fellow in Sustainable Processing in the Green Chemicals Beacon and is also a member of the Sustainable Processing Technologies Group. In this interview, she talks to Jo Gregory about her research, inspirations and the importance of using sustainable processes for the generation of electricity and power. What is your …
Reopening laboratories: sharing best practice
August 7, 2020
The nationwide lockdown due to the spread of COVID-19 saw an impressive response from the chemicals industry and research community, both from companies that continued through lockdown and had to quickly adapt their working practices as well as organisations and universities like the University of Nottingham who rapidly closed laboratories for all but essential research. …
Statistics for sustainability: An interview with Dr Kate Haigh
June 19, 2020
Kate Haigh is a research fellow based in the Faculty of Engineering and a member of the Green Chemicals Beacon. In this interview, Kate talks to Jo Gregory about her role, her motivations and how her research ensures sustainability projects are financially viable as well as beneficial to the environment. What is your role here …
Synthetic genomics and sustainability: An interview with Dr Ben Blount
May 6, 2020
Ben Blount recently returned to the University as a Nottingham Research Fellow in the School of Life Sciences and is a member of the Green Chemicals Beacon. In this interview, Ben talks to Jo Gregory about his research, his inspirations, working from home during COVID and his plans for the future as part of the …
Total Food 2020: maximising value from the food chain
January 29, 2020
Total Food 2020 is taking place at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham from the 14th-17th April 2020. The conference is sponsored by the Green Chemicals Beacon and the Future Food Beacon and will bring together industrialists, academics, policy-makers and charities with the common goal of protecting the environment and promoting human and animal …
Jon loves Techno…Economic Analysis
September 12, 2019
Jon McKechnie is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Processing Technologies and Associate Director leading the Economic and Environmental Impact Assessment research programme for the Green Chemicals Beacon. His research focuses on developing and identifying cost-effective resource utilisation strategies to contribute to environmental sustainability objectives. In this interview, Jon talks to Jo Gregory about his research, …
