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Dr Bing Xu attended the 2018 RSB annual meeting in Berlin

Associate Professor Dr Bing Xu attended the annual RSB meeting in Berlin. The RSB has members from a worldwide movement of businesses, NGOs, academics, government and UN organizations that all have the same goal of supporting and driving best practice for sustainable biomaterial production. It is a collaboration of more than 60 diverse organizations that […]


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First EPSRC Multi-disciplinary low carbon fuels workshop

Heriot-watt university hosted the first EPSRC Multi-disciplinary workshop on low carbon fuels. EPSRC launched a series of low carbon fuel workshops as a basis to bring together projects under the low carbon fuel call in an effort to establish a platform for future collaboration and consolidated advancement in the field. The key overarching priority for […]


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IPCC Global Warming of 1.5 ºC Now available

An IPCC special report is now available (here) which reports on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.


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Dr Bing Xu presented second performance evaluation paper for alternative jet fuel decision making at ICAE2018

Social and economic co-investigator Dr Bing Xu presented a recent paper which aims to assess the performance of different alternative jet fuel pathways using a unique decision making method. Abstract: We design a multi-criteria decision-making analysis (MCDA)-based framework to assess competing alternative jet fuels (AJFs). Our analysis is based on a wide range of criteria […]


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Sustainable Aviation Fuel for Clean Growth Event

  Our low carbon jet fuel research programme at the Research Centre for Carbon Solutions (RCCS) at Heriot-Watt University has the potential to provide a carbon sink for the aviation industry, capturing CO2 to produce a fuel with potential negative emissions. One of the key objectives of our activities in this area is to perform […]


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Dr Ben kolosz presents first paper on the performance evaluation of alternative jet fuels

Lifecycle Assessment specialist Dr Ben Kolosz recently presented a paper at the inernational Environmental modelling and software conference in Fort Collins, CO which aims to assess the performance of alternative jet fuels using a unique probabilistic data fusion approach. Dr Ben Kolosz: “This paper represents the second output of a close collaboration between the sustainability […]


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Dr Ben Kolosz attended the international conference on renewable energy (ICREN2018)

Dr Ben Kolosz recently attended the international conference on renewable energy. He delivered the designs for a new type of performance management framework for gasification using a unique fuzzy logic approach. Abstract: A novel sustainability performance index has been developed for assessing biomass waste performance during gasification of syngas for jet fuel production. Catalytic gasification […]


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RCCS an official member of RSB

RCCS has recently become an official member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials. RSB supports the development of collaborations and informs a wide range of stakeholders (businesses, researchers, policy makers and investors) of its innovative research capability. The RSB is supporting the development of a sustainable bioeconomy. It features a collaboration of more than 60 […]


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