Resource recovery from wastewater with Bioelectrochemical Systems
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Surrey
Department Name: Centre for Environment & Sustainability
Abstract
Production and recovery of energy and industrial materials from novel biological sources reduces our dependency on the Earth's finite mineral petrochemical resources and helps the UK economy to become a low carbon economy. Recovering energy and valuable resources such as metals from waste materials is an attractive but challenging prospect. The valuable materials are usually present in wastes at very low levels and present as a highly complex mixture. This makes it very difficult to concentrate and purify them in an economically sustainable manner.
In recent years there have been exciting advances in our understanding of ways in which microorganisms can extract the energy locked up in the organic compounds found in wastewater and in the process generate electricity. This is achieved in devices known as microbial fuel cells (MFC). In an MFC microorganisms on the anode oxidize organic compounds and in doing so generate electrons. These electrons are passed into an electrical circuit and transferred to the MFC cathode where they usually react with oxygen to form water, sustaining an electric current in the process. In theory MFC can be configured such that, rather than conversion of oxygen to water at the cathode they could convert metal ions to metals or drive the synthesis of valuable chemicals. It is our aim to develop such systems that use energy harvested from wastewater to recover metals from metal-containing waste streams and for the synthesis of valuable chemicals, ultimately from CO2.
This project will bring together experts from academia and industry to devise ways in which this can be achieved and will form the foundation of a research programme where scientists working on fundamental research and those with the skills to translate laboratory science to industrial processes will work together to develop sustainable processes for the production of valuable resources from waste.
In recent years there have been exciting advances in our understanding of ways in which microorganisms can extract the energy locked up in the organic compounds found in wastewater and in the process generate electricity. This is achieved in devices known as microbial fuel cells (MFC). In an MFC microorganisms on the anode oxidize organic compounds and in doing so generate electrons. These electrons are passed into an electrical circuit and transferred to the MFC cathode where they usually react with oxygen to form water, sustaining an electric current in the process. In theory MFC can be configured such that, rather than conversion of oxygen to water at the cathode they could convert metal ions to metals or drive the synthesis of valuable chemicals. It is our aim to develop such systems that use energy harvested from wastewater to recover metals from metal-containing waste streams and for the synthesis of valuable chemicals, ultimately from CO2.
This project will bring together experts from academia and industry to devise ways in which this can be achieved and will form the foundation of a research programme where scientists working on fundamental research and those with the skills to translate laboratory science to industrial processes will work together to develop sustainable processes for the production of valuable resources from waste.
Planned Impact
The main impact of the proposed technology that will be evaluated is the application of bioelectrochemical systems to tackle the burden of waste treatment (nationally and eventually Internationally) and transferring the energy, metals and minerals contained within to produce useful products. The proposed bioelectrochemical system will have wide applications particularly to industries producing wastewater with high organic content. Thus potential non-academic beneficiaries may include the food and drink industry, breweries, agriculture and the paper and pulp industry and also water utilities charged with sustainable treatment of wastewater from a range of sources. The technologies that will be developed in the project will permit them to recover value from their waste products. More immediately the research will have impact on our industrial collaborators who will be involved in developing new materials and processes as a result of their collaboration with the academic researchers in this project ( e.g. Chemviron Carbon, MagnetoChemie, WH Partnership). These and other organizations will be involved from the outset in identifying research needs and planning a project that will meet them. The societal significance of reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and geological resources is immense and this will clearly impact environmental regulators, policy makers and politicians. The accompanying Pathways to Impact document details how we will maximize the chances of realizing these impacts through various activities designed to foster close collaboration an engagement with potential non-academic beneficiaries.
People |
ORCID iD |
| Jhuma Sadhukhan (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Sadhukhan J
(2016)
A critical review of integration analysis of microbial electrosynthesis (MES) systems with waste biorefineries for the production of biofuel and chemical from reuse of CO 2
in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Ng K
(2016)
A multilevel sustainability analysis of zinc recovery from wastes
in Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Shemfe M
(2018)
Social Hotspot Analysis and Trade Policy Implications of the Use of Bioelectrochemical Systems for Resource Recovery from Wastewater
in Sustainability
Li D
(2021)
How to go beyond C 1 products with electrochemical reduction of CO 2
in Sustainable Energy & Fuels
| Description | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960852418300853: A novel framework integrating dynamic simulation (DS), life cycle assessment (LCA) and techno-economic assessment (TEA) of bioelectrochemical system (BES) has been developed to study for the first time wastewater treatment by removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) by oxidation in anode and thereby harvesting electron and proton for carbon dioxide reduction reaction or reuse to produce products in cathode. Increases in initial COD and applied potential increase COD removal and production (in this case formic acid) rates. DS correlations are used in LCA and TEA for holistic performance analyses. The cost of production of HCOOH is €0.015-0.005g-1 for its production rate of 0.094-0.26kgyr-1 and a COD removal rate of 0.038-0.106kgyr-1. The life cycle (LC) benefits by avoiding fossil-based formic acid production (93%) and electricity for wastewater treatment (12%) outweigh LC costs of operation and assemblage of BES (-5%), giving a net 61MJkg-1HCOOH saving. 3. Recent key contributions: Best paper by the editorial board: Sadhukhan J et al. 2016. Novel integrated mechanical biological chemical treatment (MBCT) systems for the production of levulinic acid from fraction of municipal solid waste: A comprehensive techno-economic analysis. Bioresource Technology 215, 131-143. 4. Sadhukhan J et al. 2016. A critical review of integration analysis of microbial electrosynthesis (MES) systems with waste biorefineries for the production of biofuel and chemical from reuse of CO2. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 56, 116-132. 5. Ng, K.S., Head, I., Premier, G.C., Scott, K., Yu, E., Lloyd, J. and Sadhukhan, J., 2016. A multilevel sustainability analysis of zinc recovery from wastes. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 113, 88-105. 6. Sadhukhan, J. and Martinez-Hernandez, E., 2017. Material flow and sustainability analyses of biorefining of municipal solid waste. Bioresource technology, 243, pp.135-146. 7. Galano, A., Aburto, J., Sadhukhan, J. and Torres-García, E., 2017. A combined theoretical-experimental investigation on the mechanism of lignin pyrolysis: Role of heating rates and residence times. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 128, 208-216. 8. Sadhukhan J et al. 2017. Life cycle assessment of sustainable raw material acquisition for functional magnetite bionanoparticle production. J Environmental Management, 199, 116-125. 9. Pask, F., Lake, P., Yang, A., Tokos, H. and Sadhukhan, J., 2017. Sustainability indicators for industrial ovens and assessment using Fuzzy set theory and Monte Carlo simulation. Journal of Cleaner Production, 140, 1217-1225. 10. Sadhukhan J et al. 2018. Role of bioenergy, biorefinery and bioeconomy in sustainable development: Strategic pathways for Malaysia. Ren. Sus. Energy Rev. 81(2), 1966-1987. 11. Shemfe, M., Gadkari, S., Yu, E., Rasul, S., Scott, K., Head, I., Gu, S. and Sadhukhan, J., 2018. Life cycle, techno-economic and dynamic simulation assessment of bioelectrochemical systems: A case of formic acid synthesis. Bioresource Technology, 255, 39-49. 12. Gear, M., Sadhukhan, J., Thorpe, R., Clift, R., Seville, J. and Keast, M., 2018. A life cycle assessment data analysis toolkit for the design of novel processes-A case study for a thermal cracking process for mixed plastic waste. Journal of Cleaner Production, 180, 735-747. 13. Miah, J.H., Griffiths, A., McNeill, R., Halvorson, S., Schenker, U., Espinoza-Orias, N.D., Morse, S., Yang, A. and Sadhukhan, J., 2018. Environmental management of confectionery products: Life cycle impacts and improvement strategies. J Cleaner Production, 177, 732-751. 14. Sadhukhan J., Martinez-Hernandez E. and Ng K.S. 2016. (Eds) Biorefinery Value Chain Creation. Chemical Engineering Research and Design. Elsevier, 107, 1-280. Techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment (LCA) of copper recovery from industrial wastewaters using microbial electrosynthesis (MES) systems have been completed in collaboration with Newcastle and Chivas Brothers Ltd. Two research outputs are expected. Research outcome is from partnership between 4 major research groups / universities (Newcastle, Surrey, Manchester, U Wales) with strong links with three other world leaders in the field (Ugent, U Pennstate and VITO). A number of aspects we have first time revealed in the paper: Sadhukhan, J., Lloyd, J.R., Scott, K., Premier, G.C., Eileen, H.Y., Curtis, T. and Head, I.M., 2016. A critical review of integration analysis of microbial electrosynthesis (MES) systems with waste biorefineries for the production of biofuel and chemical from reuse of CO 2. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 56, pp.116-132. This paper makes several novel contributions. 1) Integrated biorefinery and microbial electrosynthesis (MES) process conceptual flowsheets; 2) A plethora of added value product generation options from MES, and integrated biorefinery and MES process flowsheets; 3) Theoretical modelling framework for MES systems from the fundamental basis of the Gibbs free energy minimisation or thermodynamic optimisation of biologically relevant reactions to produce biofuels, hydrogen, energy and chemical products. 4) A market- and sustainability- driven strategy to speed up the development of MES combining metabolic flux analysis, metabolic pathway analysis, thermodynamic optimisation, process simulation, dynamics and control experimentation. 5) Unlocking the value of metals and organics from urban waste by innovative MES and biorefinery technologies. |
| Exploitation Route | "Bio-based industries show €600 billion turnover and 3.2 million employees. The bio-based industry is already an important part of the European economy and a pivotal element in the transition to a sustainable, circular economy in Europe with renewable raw materials as key enablers." (http://www.rebnews.com/news/resource_efficiency/bioeconomy_including_plastics_paper_worth_e21_trillion_european_economy.html) The bio-based industries are currently facing the challenges resulting from increasing volume of stillage streams representing unconverted organics, which are discharged to the environment. However, these should not be directly disposed of to the environment due to increasing concerns over land, aquatic and atmospheric emissions. The integrated technology and protocol we have developed can help recover these biorefinery pollutants as resources and thereby eliminate discharges to the environment. Biorefineries and MES systems may be symbiotically integrated to increase product yields and selectivities and thereby overall efficiency to resolve the key issues with up-scaling of both the technologies. By the virtue of different reduction potentials, selective synthesis of biofuels and chemicals is possible in MES utilising carbon sources from waste streams. Realizing the full polygeneration potentials, i.e. simultaneous recovery of metals (apparently pollutants from biorefineries), production of biofuels and chemicals from reuse of CO2, and synergistic integration within biorefineries, is imperative to attain an economic and environmental upside of novel electrochemical synthesis processes. |
| Sectors | Chemicals,Creative Economy,Education,Energy,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
| URL | http://www.theibest.org/Life%20Cycle%20Sustainability%20Assessment%20(LCSA)%20-%20end%20of%20project%20report.pdf |
| Description | 1. As part of ongoing NERC and EPSRC projects, we are developing software "Global Sustainability and Engineering analysis of Resource recovery Technologies" (GSERT) that has generated licensing interests amongst leading industries in the area of BES. Licensing will be pursued in collaboration with industries. Surrey is making a prominent contribution in the RRfW Policy Impact Project and policy notes. 2. Fuel cell (FC) mode gives greater environmental drivers than electrolysis cell (EC) mode of MES systems. More specifically, the set up for FC must run for 7-10 years, while for EC 14-15 years, to break-even environmental impact cost and saving. Progress is being made to meet or validate these life times. 3. Environmental LCA gives an indication of numbers of years of lifetime of various BES set-ups, needed. Taking the numbers of years of lifetime as the bases of net present value or discounted cash flow calculations, internal rate of return can be estimated. Internal rate of return then tells how much more revenues may be needed from product recovery. 4. Both the quality and quantity aspects of recovered copper have to be looked at using integrated waste management approach, to achieve the feasible rate of return. More specifically, the set up for FC must give 15-16 times more revenues, and this can be achieved by the recovery of Cu with functional properties like catalytic properties. Thus, the experimental efforts have been directed to functional Cu recovery and integrated waste management. 5. For continuous operations two cells of same designs have been recommended with one operating and another regenerating. The environmental impact and economic costs are thus doubled for the same amount of copper recovery from a single cell. Electrochemical technologies are seen to be the next generations renewable technologies for resource recovery from waste in various sectors in major technology roadmapping papers and works worldwide. Our work for the first time showed outstandinly creative sustainable solution. Furthermore, electrochemical technologies and waste biorefineries can be integrated for increased efficiency and competitiveness with stillage released from the latter process used in the former as feedstock and energy resource recovered from the former used in the latter. Such symbiotic integration can avoid loss of material and energy from waste streams, thereby increasing the overall efficiency, economics and environmental performance that would serve towards delivering the common goals from both the systems. A major expansion of the range and the depth of research and its application can be clearly seen in the framework developed: 63 anodic and 72 cathodic reactions of metabolism and 9 metabolic pathways have been modelled for assessing technical feasibility of resource recovery from waste substrates. This entails the whole complete and comprehensive range of feasible productions. Earlier works dealt with one target product using the system, but not the entire paradigm of possibilities. We now have Chivas Brothers on board looking to explore the technology for metal recovery from wastewater. Other industrial partners include: Tata Steel, Northumbrian Water, Chemviron Carbon, MAGNETO, WH Partnership. For more details, visit: http://www.meteorr.ac.uk/ |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Chemicals,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Energy,Environment,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic |
| Description | Contributing in RRfW Policy Impact Project and policy note drafts |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | Complete valorization of municipal solid waste (MSW) is possible and integrates material recovery facility (MRF); pulping, chemical conversion; effluent treatment plant (ETP), Anaeorobic digestion (AD); and combined heat and power (CHP) systems (Ref: Sadhukhan and Martinez-Hernandez, 2017). - Production of end products: recyclables (24.9% by mass of MSW), metals (2.7%), fibre (1.5%); levulinic acid (7.4%); recyclable water (14.7%), fertiliser (8.3%); and electricity (0.126 MWh/t MSW), respectively (Sadhukhan and Martinez-Hernandez, 2017). - This clean technology and processing is needed for remedying environmental pollution, albeit at a higher capital investment. Process integration will be crucial for unlocking the value of organic waste via added value bio-based productions and a total site utility system design (Sadhukhan, 2018). - The return of nutrients to agricultural land will be promoted by the proposed amendment to the EU Fertiliser Regulation. The research and industry sectors welcome proposals to increase the flexibility of the EU Fertiliser Regs. This will serve to level the field between the conventional and alternative fertiliser markets thus encouraging innovation in the production of fertilisers from waste. - Opportunities for integration of developing technologies into existing infrastructure can bring about complementary effects and perceived waste products can be utilised to benefit other parts of the system. Industrial symbiosis could promote sharing of technical expertise, opportunities to integrate complementary systems and symbiosis in terms of sharing of wastes from one industrial process that can become a valuable resource in another process. - Currently many AD plants and MSW treatment centres are reliant on public money in the form of incentives for energy production or for MSW treatment, gate fees paid by the local authority and feed-in-tariff for AD. The integration of Bioelectrochemical system (BES) into these existing technologies could lead to further valorisation of the waste streams in terms of high value chemicals and elements from MSW, and targeted fertiliser materials from AD. In order to promote economic independence of these technologies the full life cycle of the recovered materials compared to the fossil-fuel based equivalents they replace should be considered.- Techno-economic analysis, LCA and life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) have been extensively applied for RRfW within the METEORR project (Shemfe et al., 2018; Sadhukhan et al., 2018; Sadhukhan and Martinez-Hernandez, 2017; Sadhukhan et al., 2017; Ng et al., 2016; Sadhukhan et al. 2016a; Sadhukhan et al. 2016b)), to conclude the following (Sadhukhan, 2018). o LCSA of BES clearly shows net savings of impacts in resources, climate change, ecosystem quality and human health, compared to equivalent fossil based services. o LCSA should drive sustainable development of BES and RRfW and biorefinery systems and include the UN SDGs as far as possible to show its importance and relevance in developing economies. o Pollutant emissions to the environment should be regulated to the most stringent level (Planetary boundaries). o Policy incentives are needed for BES and RRfW and biorefinery systems, e.g. funding one third the initial investment without payment for next ten years can progress small to medium enterprises (SMEs) (Sadhukhan et al., 2018). o Innovation and resource efficiency and productivity are the key criteria for the eligibility for such funding. |
| URL | http://www.theibest.org/Life%20Cycle%20Sustainability%20Assessment%20(LCSA)%20-%20end%20of%20project... |
| Description | The organic waste gold rush: optimising resource recovery in the UK bioeconomy |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | "The use of organic waste in the bioeconomy has the potential to contribute towards the UK's strategic goals of clean growth, resource security and reducing use of fossil fuels. While the reduction of avoidable organic waste remains a priority, a number of waste streams are likely to persist and could provide a significant feedstock for the UK bioeconomy. The greatest environmental, social and economic benefits of resource recovery from organic wastes are associated with the displacement of fossil fuel derived chemicals and materials, and the combined products of nutrients and energy from anaerobic digestion. Organic wastes offer multiple resources that can be exploited most efficiently by technologies working in synergy with each other. Investments into different options for using organic wastes are driven by government policy and resource demand, in addition to technology readiness. Policy and regulations should encourage industrial synergies and an increase in the diversity of resources recovered from organic waste in order to be able to respond to future resource demands." |
| URL | https://rrfw.org.uk/policy/ |
| Description | Innovate UK ICURe towards commercialisation of TESARREC - A tool for sustainability assessment of environmental technologies for circular economy (PI 2019) |
| Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | Multidisciplinary Fuels Call |
| Amount | £1,924,296 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N009746/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2016 |
| End | 02/2020 |
| Description | NERC Mini Project Call Round 2 |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2017 |
| End | 03/2018 |
| Description | UK-India British Council / RSC Newton-Bhabha Researcher Links Workshop |
| Amount | £32,100 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2017 |
| End | 01/2018 |
| Description | University of Surrey: NERC Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund NE/W003627/1: i-CREW-International Collaboration for Optimisation of Resource Recovery from Wastewater |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/W003627/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Title | Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment - methodology as well as software |
| Description | A novel framework integrating dynamic simulation (DS), life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) and techno-economic assessment (TEA) of bioelectrochemical system (BES) has been developed to study for the first time wastewater treatment by removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) by oxidation in anode and thereby harvesting electron and proton for metal and mineral recovery as well as carbon dioxide reduction reaction or reuse to produce products in cathode, overall resource recovery from waste, when all other technologies fail. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The METEORR project has developed Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) (according to the standards 14040, 14041 and 14044, by the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO)) and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) (ISO 26000 (Guidance on Social Responsibility) framework to provide an integrated way of assessing sustainability indicators of a system or a set of services and can be applied for sustainable resource recovery from waste (RRfW) systems. Sustainability and feasibility of a resource recovery strategy from wastes in a circular economy are governed by avoided environmental impacts and cost-effective transformation of an environmental contaminant into a valuable resource, e.g. as a coproduct by making use of an existing infrastructure as much as possible. Policy recommendations are detailed here: http://www.theibest.org/Life%20Cycle%20Sustainability%20Assessment%20(LCSA)%20-%20end%20of%20project%20report.pdf |
| Title | Data for Enhanced bio-production from CO2 by Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) with Continuous operational mode |
| Description | This raw data is used to support the paper published in Faraday Discussions: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0FD00132E. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_for_Enhanced_bio-production_from_CO_sub_2_sub_b... |
| Title | Data for Enhanced bio-production from CO2 by Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) with Continuous operational mode |
| Description | This raw data is used to support the paper published in Faraday Discussions: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0FD00132E. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_for_Enhanced_bio-production_from_CO_sub_2_sub_b... |
| Title | Database creation for microbial electrosynthesis (MES) of chemical products, metal and nanomaterials |
| Description | 1) A plethora of added value product generation options from MES, and integrated biorefinery and MES process flowsheets has been created, which practically includes all possible options. 2) Theoretical modelling framework for MES systems from the fundamental basis of the Gibbs free energy minimisation or thermodynamic optimisation of biologically relevant reactions to produce biofuels, hydrogen, energy and chemical products. 3) A market- and sustainability- driven strategy is enabled to speed up development of MES combining metabolic flux analysis, metabolic pathway analysis and thermodynamic optimisation. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 1. To quickly screen feasible options. 2. To optimise MES systems. 3. To speed up upscaling of MES systems. 4. To enable sustainable MES system design. |
| URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032115012678 |
| Title | University of Surrey: Economic analysis |
| Description | This module within TESARREC™ of the University of Surrey enables techno-economic analysis as well as life cycle costing of biorefinery process systems. Users can choose the unit in a system and specify their capacities. The module calculates, the capital costs, operating costs, etc. of the entire system. Furthermore, the cost and value and discounted cash flow or net present value are analysed for the system. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Techno-economic and life cycle costing analyses are required to assess economic viability of an entire system. The cost of production, the value on processing and discounted cash flow, etc., can be analysed across a system. |
| URL | https://tesarrec.web.app/economicanalysis |
| Title | University of Surrey: Microbial Fuel Cell |
| Description | Microbial fuel cells (MFC) are a technology for simultaneous removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) in wastewater in anode chamber and electricity generation from the cell. Electrogenic bacteria harvest electrons and protons utilising organic present in wastewater as substrate in the anode chamber, thereby lowering the COD of the wastewater. Electrons flow through an external circuit from the anode to the cathode chamber generating electricity. In the cathode chamber, electrons and protons combine with oxygen generating net energy output and water. The model analyses the mass and energy performances of the MFC. It further gives life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis of MFC. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | TESARREC, University of Surrey has an outreach of thousands users world-wide. |
| URL | https://tesarrec.web.app/sustainability/mfc |
| Title | University of Surrey: TESARREC Sustainability platform |
| Description | Software and technical product open source IP: TESARREC™ UK Trademark 00003321198 "Tool for techno-Economic and Sustainability Analysis of Resource Recovery Engineering solutions for Circular renewable and bio economy" 2018, has two modules: Sustainability and Model bench. Under sustainability, the various technical and life cycle sustainability assessment models are being built. At present, microbial electrosynthesis, biomass cogeneration and microbial fuel cell, MES, CHP and MFC, modules are available to analyse technical and life cycle sustainability of these systems. The websites are: https://tesarrec.web.app/sustainability/mes https://tesarrec.web.app/sustainability/chp https://tesarrec.web.app/sustainability/mfc |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | TESARREC™ is the only online platform offering whole system holistic sustainability evaluations of a technical system. Such evaluations in terms of techno-economic (capex, opex, levelized cost of production and net present value, etc.), environmental impact (e.g. global warming potential, primary resource depletion, eutrophication, acidification, urban smog, human health, etc.) and social indicators (number and quality of employments, wages, gender equality, livelihood generation, labour rights, health & Safety, human rights, governance and community infrastructure, etc.) are linked to the technical performance outputs from the technical models. Thus, any change in technical variabilities can be studied at a system level- sustainability performance evaluations. TESARREC™ allowing comparisons between studies can thus help engaging policy makers, businesses, industries, SMEs, governments, policymarkers, academics, educators and researchers in informed debates and decision making. |
| URL | https://tesarrec.web.app/ |
| Description | Cu recovery from distillary wastewater |
| Organisation | Chivas Brothers ltd. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) methods, CML 2010, ReCiPe 1.07 and Impact 2002+, giving primary, endpoint and midpoint characterisations, respectively, are employed to estimate both resources (input) and toxicity impacts (output) that can be saved by metal recovery. A profile of avoided damage factor (MJ/kg MSW) estimated by the Impact 2002+ midpoint characterisation method, against price of metal recovered (EURO/kg MSW), shows the highest to the lowest targeted metals for recovery, as follows: Cu > Al > Zn, respectively. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Newcastle: Microbial electrosynthesis technology implementation. South Welsh: Scale up Manchester: Nanotechnology implementation Surrey: Sustainable industrial system development Chivas Brothers: Site offered for implementation of the technology |
| Impact | Two peer-reviewed journal publications are in progress. Specific highlights of the research outcome include: 1. Subsidies for waste treatment are not needed if chemical and metals are recovered. 2. Value analysis determines profitability according to chemical > metals > energy > composting, by waste valorisation. 3. Process integration for competitive waste biorefineries is illustrated. 4. It consists of conceptual design through simulation, heat integration to analyses. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Cu recovery from distillary wastewater |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) methods, CML 2010, ReCiPe 1.07 and Impact 2002+, giving primary, endpoint and midpoint characterisations, respectively, are employed to estimate both resources (input) and toxicity impacts (output) that can be saved by metal recovery. A profile of avoided damage factor (MJ/kg MSW) estimated by the Impact 2002+ midpoint characterisation method, against price of metal recovered (EURO/kg MSW), shows the highest to the lowest targeted metals for recovery, as follows: Cu > Al > Zn, respectively. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Newcastle: Microbial electrosynthesis technology implementation. South Welsh: Scale up Manchester: Nanotechnology implementation Surrey: Sustainable industrial system development Chivas Brothers: Site offered for implementation of the technology |
| Impact | Two peer-reviewed journal publications are in progress. Specific highlights of the research outcome include: 1. Subsidies for waste treatment are not needed if chemical and metals are recovered. 2. Value analysis determines profitability according to chemical > metals > energy > composting, by waste valorisation. 3. Process integration for competitive waste biorefineries is illustrated. 4. It consists of conceptual design through simulation, heat integration to analyses. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Cu recovery from distillary wastewater |
| Organisation | University of Newcastle |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) methods, CML 2010, ReCiPe 1.07 and Impact 2002+, giving primary, endpoint and midpoint characterisations, respectively, are employed to estimate both resources (input) and toxicity impacts (output) that can be saved by metal recovery. A profile of avoided damage factor (MJ/kg MSW) estimated by the Impact 2002+ midpoint characterisation method, against price of metal recovered (EURO/kg MSW), shows the highest to the lowest targeted metals for recovery, as follows: Cu > Al > Zn, respectively. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Newcastle: Microbial electrosynthesis technology implementation. South Welsh: Scale up Manchester: Nanotechnology implementation Surrey: Sustainable industrial system development Chivas Brothers: Site offered for implementation of the technology |
| Impact | Two peer-reviewed journal publications are in progress. Specific highlights of the research outcome include: 1. Subsidies for waste treatment are not needed if chemical and metals are recovered. 2. Value analysis determines profitability according to chemical > metals > energy > composting, by waste valorisation. 3. Process integration for competitive waste biorefineries is illustrated. 4. It consists of conceptual design through simulation, heat integration to analyses. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Cu recovery from distillary wastewater |
| Organisation | University of South Wales |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) methods, CML 2010, ReCiPe 1.07 and Impact 2002+, giving primary, endpoint and midpoint characterisations, respectively, are employed to estimate both resources (input) and toxicity impacts (output) that can be saved by metal recovery. A profile of avoided damage factor (MJ/kg MSW) estimated by the Impact 2002+ midpoint characterisation method, against price of metal recovered (EURO/kg MSW), shows the highest to the lowest targeted metals for recovery, as follows: Cu > Al > Zn, respectively. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Newcastle: Microbial electrosynthesis technology implementation. South Welsh: Scale up Manchester: Nanotechnology implementation Surrey: Sustainable industrial system development Chivas Brothers: Site offered for implementation of the technology |
| Impact | Two peer-reviewed journal publications are in progress. Specific highlights of the research outcome include: 1. Subsidies for waste treatment are not needed if chemical and metals are recovered. 2. Value analysis determines profitability according to chemical > metals > energy > composting, by waste valorisation. 3. Process integration for competitive waste biorefineries is illustrated. 4. It consists of conceptual design through simulation, heat integration to analyses. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Zn recovery from wastewater using microbial electrosynthesis technology |
| Organisation | Tata Steel Europe |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The team at Surrey University works on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessments of microbial electrochemical systems, to inform design and scale up decisions. They interact closely with industrial partners to ensure the research is relevant to real world wastewater treatment. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LSCA) is a tool to characterise and assess the environmental, economic and societal aspects of a process, which can help in decision making. For example, in choosing between different waste treatment processes to be installed at an industrial site, LCSA can be used to assess the impacts of environmental, economic and societal aspects of different waste treatment technologies. Within the EU, the Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (96/61/EC) aims to prevent or minimise pollution of water, air and soil by industrial effluent and other waste from industrial installations, including energy industries, by defining basic obligations for operating licences or permits and by introducing targets, or benchmarks, for energy efficiency. The Directive on the Limitation of Emissions of Certain Pollutants into the Air from Large Combustion Plants (2001/80/EC) - has acted to limit heavy metal emissions via dust control and absorption of heavy metals. Using microbial electrolysis synthesis system, we were able to recover Zn, Cu, etc. from wastewaters. Demand for zinc and its production are increasing at the rates of 4.7% and 2.7% per year. At the current rate of usage, its demand will reach 2.7 times of today's demand by 2050. A maximum of only 7% contribution could be allowed from primary mining to fulfil its increased demand by 2050 and the balance of the demand must be met by secondary recovery of zinc from wastes. We have shown € 1552 can be generated from the recovery of 1 tonne of zinc in the integrated mechanical biological treatment plant of urban waste enhancing the economic margin of the plant by 4%. The microbial electrolysis synthesis technology is being trialled for Zn recovery from wastewater from the galvanisation process of Tata Steel. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Newcastle: Microbial electrolysis synthesis technology; Manchester: Nanomaterial production; South Welsh: Scale-up; Surrey: Sustainable industrial systems; Tata Steel: Provision of wastewater samples |
| Impact | Two peer-reviewed high impact journal publications are in progress. Tata Steel is also exploring in investing in the technology. Specific findings that can have an impact at global scale include: 1. Zinc has a current usage rate of 13.5 million tonne per year in products. 2. Secondary sources of zinc include spent batteries, steelmaking dust and MSW. 3. Primary mining causes 1.53 kg CO2 equivalent release per kg of combined metal. 4. Economics enhanced by 6 times if aluminium, copper, zinc in MSW are recovered. 5. 0.005 tonne of zinc per tonne of MSW can be recovered (UK, EU). |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Zn recovery from wastewater using microbial electrosynthesis technology |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The team at Surrey University works on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessments of microbial electrochemical systems, to inform design and scale up decisions. They interact closely with industrial partners to ensure the research is relevant to real world wastewater treatment. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LSCA) is a tool to characterise and assess the environmental, economic and societal aspects of a process, which can help in decision making. For example, in choosing between different waste treatment processes to be installed at an industrial site, LCSA can be used to assess the impacts of environmental, economic and societal aspects of different waste treatment technologies. Within the EU, the Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (96/61/EC) aims to prevent or minimise pollution of water, air and soil by industrial effluent and other waste from industrial installations, including energy industries, by defining basic obligations for operating licences or permits and by introducing targets, or benchmarks, for energy efficiency. The Directive on the Limitation of Emissions of Certain Pollutants into the Air from Large Combustion Plants (2001/80/EC) - has acted to limit heavy metal emissions via dust control and absorption of heavy metals. Using microbial electrolysis synthesis system, we were able to recover Zn, Cu, etc. from wastewaters. Demand for zinc and its production are increasing at the rates of 4.7% and 2.7% per year. At the current rate of usage, its demand will reach 2.7 times of today's demand by 2050. A maximum of only 7% contribution could be allowed from primary mining to fulfil its increased demand by 2050 and the balance of the demand must be met by secondary recovery of zinc from wastes. We have shown € 1552 can be generated from the recovery of 1 tonne of zinc in the integrated mechanical biological treatment plant of urban waste enhancing the economic margin of the plant by 4%. The microbial electrolysis synthesis technology is being trialled for Zn recovery from wastewater from the galvanisation process of Tata Steel. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Newcastle: Microbial electrolysis synthesis technology; Manchester: Nanomaterial production; South Welsh: Scale-up; Surrey: Sustainable industrial systems; Tata Steel: Provision of wastewater samples |
| Impact | Two peer-reviewed high impact journal publications are in progress. Tata Steel is also exploring in investing in the technology. Specific findings that can have an impact at global scale include: 1. Zinc has a current usage rate of 13.5 million tonne per year in products. 2. Secondary sources of zinc include spent batteries, steelmaking dust and MSW. 3. Primary mining causes 1.53 kg CO2 equivalent release per kg of combined metal. 4. Economics enhanced by 6 times if aluminium, copper, zinc in MSW are recovered. 5. 0.005 tonne of zinc per tonne of MSW can be recovered (UK, EU). |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Zn recovery from wastewater using microbial electrosynthesis technology |
| Organisation | University of Newcastle |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The team at Surrey University works on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessments of microbial electrochemical systems, to inform design and scale up decisions. They interact closely with industrial partners to ensure the research is relevant to real world wastewater treatment. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LSCA) is a tool to characterise and assess the environmental, economic and societal aspects of a process, which can help in decision making. For example, in choosing between different waste treatment processes to be installed at an industrial site, LCSA can be used to assess the impacts of environmental, economic and societal aspects of different waste treatment technologies. Within the EU, the Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (96/61/EC) aims to prevent or minimise pollution of water, air and soil by industrial effluent and other waste from industrial installations, including energy industries, by defining basic obligations for operating licences or permits and by introducing targets, or benchmarks, for energy efficiency. The Directive on the Limitation of Emissions of Certain Pollutants into the Air from Large Combustion Plants (2001/80/EC) - has acted to limit heavy metal emissions via dust control and absorption of heavy metals. Using microbial electrolysis synthesis system, we were able to recover Zn, Cu, etc. from wastewaters. Demand for zinc and its production are increasing at the rates of 4.7% and 2.7% per year. At the current rate of usage, its demand will reach 2.7 times of today's demand by 2050. A maximum of only 7% contribution could be allowed from primary mining to fulfil its increased demand by 2050 and the balance of the demand must be met by secondary recovery of zinc from wastes. We have shown € 1552 can be generated from the recovery of 1 tonne of zinc in the integrated mechanical biological treatment plant of urban waste enhancing the economic margin of the plant by 4%. The microbial electrolysis synthesis technology is being trialled for Zn recovery from wastewater from the galvanisation process of Tata Steel. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Newcastle: Microbial electrolysis synthesis technology; Manchester: Nanomaterial production; South Welsh: Scale-up; Surrey: Sustainable industrial systems; Tata Steel: Provision of wastewater samples |
| Impact | Two peer-reviewed high impact journal publications are in progress. Tata Steel is also exploring in investing in the technology. Specific findings that can have an impact at global scale include: 1. Zinc has a current usage rate of 13.5 million tonne per year in products. 2. Secondary sources of zinc include spent batteries, steelmaking dust and MSW. 3. Primary mining causes 1.53 kg CO2 equivalent release per kg of combined metal. 4. Economics enhanced by 6 times if aluminium, copper, zinc in MSW are recovered. 5. 0.005 tonne of zinc per tonne of MSW can be recovered (UK, EU). |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Zn recovery from wastewater using microbial electrosynthesis technology |
| Organisation | University of South Wales |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The team at Surrey University works on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessments of microbial electrochemical systems, to inform design and scale up decisions. They interact closely with industrial partners to ensure the research is relevant to real world wastewater treatment. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LSCA) is a tool to characterise and assess the environmental, economic and societal aspects of a process, which can help in decision making. For example, in choosing between different waste treatment processes to be installed at an industrial site, LCSA can be used to assess the impacts of environmental, economic and societal aspects of different waste treatment technologies. Within the EU, the Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (96/61/EC) aims to prevent or minimise pollution of water, air and soil by industrial effluent and other waste from industrial installations, including energy industries, by defining basic obligations for operating licences or permits and by introducing targets, or benchmarks, for energy efficiency. The Directive on the Limitation of Emissions of Certain Pollutants into the Air from Large Combustion Plants (2001/80/EC) - has acted to limit heavy metal emissions via dust control and absorption of heavy metals. Using microbial electrolysis synthesis system, we were able to recover Zn, Cu, etc. from wastewaters. Demand for zinc and its production are increasing at the rates of 4.7% and 2.7% per year. At the current rate of usage, its demand will reach 2.7 times of today's demand by 2050. A maximum of only 7% contribution could be allowed from primary mining to fulfil its increased demand by 2050 and the balance of the demand must be met by secondary recovery of zinc from wastes. We have shown € 1552 can be generated from the recovery of 1 tonne of zinc in the integrated mechanical biological treatment plant of urban waste enhancing the economic margin of the plant by 4%. The microbial electrolysis synthesis technology is being trialled for Zn recovery from wastewater from the galvanisation process of Tata Steel. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Newcastle: Microbial electrolysis synthesis technology; Manchester: Nanomaterial production; South Welsh: Scale-up; Surrey: Sustainable industrial systems; Tata Steel: Provision of wastewater samples |
| Impact | Two peer-reviewed high impact journal publications are in progress. Tata Steel is also exploring in investing in the technology. Specific findings that can have an impact at global scale include: 1. Zinc has a current usage rate of 13.5 million tonne per year in products. 2. Secondary sources of zinc include spent batteries, steelmaking dust and MSW. 3. Primary mining causes 1.53 kg CO2 equivalent release per kg of combined metal. 4. Economics enhanced by 6 times if aluminium, copper, zinc in MSW are recovered. 5. 0.005 tonne of zinc per tonne of MSW can be recovered (UK, EU). |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Title | The University of Surrey's licensed software TESARREC |
| Description | The University of Surrey Team invents: TESARREC™ UK Trademark: UK00003321198 includes Goods and Services under the Class: 9, 40 and 42. A few of this exhaustive list include: Computer software for use in evaluating the economic, environmental, social and policy implications of organic compounds productions from waste; Computer software for use in accessing datasets of metal and organic pollutant concentrations in residential, municipal and industrial wastewater streams; Computer software for use in optimising the operational, economic and environmental performances of biorefinery processes and resource recovery technologies. |
| IP Reference | |
| Protection | Trade Mark |
| Year Protection Granted | 2020 |
| Licensed | Yes |
| Impact | TESARREC™ can outperform much proprietary software in this space which costs several grand. By being non-profit open-source, less wealthy organizations and countries can participate in this critical research to net-zero circular economies. They can readily deploy bioenergy-biorefinery-bioeconomy modules for systemic sustainability evaluations. TESARREC™ can be used to develop and evaluate renewable and biorefinery technologies with carbon capture and sequestration. There are several best practices inherent to TESARREC™, quality control through peer-reviewed modules, and consensus-building in technological innovations. The new features of TESARREC™ are of particular interest to stakeholders (designers, practitioners, policy-makers): 1) mathematical models of renewable and biomass transformation units 2) readily deployable bioenergy, biorefinery and bioeconomy modules, 3) life cycle sustainability assessment to quantitatively analyse sustainability trilemma. With several thousand unique users, TESARREC™ offers in-built standardised modules of biorefinery systems for biofuel, green hydrogen, chemical and energy co-productions. Its expanded capability can attract the broadest range of users, industries, businesses, government, non-governmental and research organisations. The project is especially timely because the atmospheric CO2 level is increasing and the organisations need to jump-start their environmental, social and governance performances. Thus, it is essential to invest in the effective TESARREC™ tool to manage resource scarcity and increasing demand for net-zero transitioning |
| Title | Database created for CO2 reduction pathways and microbial electrosynthesis process synthesis |
| Description | 63 anodic and 72 cathodic reactions of metabolism and 9 metabolic pathways have been collated for assessing technical feasibility and life cycle triple bottom line impacts of microbial electrosynthesis systems for product generation and resource recovery from waste streams. |
| Type Of Technology | Physical Model/Kit |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Microbial electrosynthesis assisted metal recovery by metal reduction in cathode is demonstrated here, by taking a range of waste streams from various industries. The cathode can be abiotic or biotic. For majority of the metals, their reduction is thermodynamically spontaneous. Such metals include Au (III), V (V), Cr (VI), Ag (I), Cu(II), Fe (III), and Hg (II), etc. Their reduction is thermodynamically favorable, and the metals can accept electron without any external voltage application. A small amount of electricity may be generated by recovering metals present in waste streams. For some other metal recovery, e.g. Ni (II), Pb (II), Cd (II), and Zn (II), etc. an external power supply to force the electrons travel from the anode to the abiotic cathode is required, due to their lower redox potentials than the anode potentials. For those metals, Au (III), Ag (I), V (V), Cr (VI), Cu(II), Hg (II), and Fe (III) etc. shown respectively from the highest to the lowest market values, for which the redox potential is higher than the anode potential and reduction can be assisted with simultaneous electricity generation, greater than 99% recovery can be obtained except vanadium, for which the recovery is 68% compared to the amount present in the waste stream. The maximum power generated is 6.5 W per m2 for gold; for other metals the maximum power generated is lower than 6.5 W per m2. Cathodic reduction reactions which include primarily carbon dioxide reuse are shown to produce products, such as formic acid, methane, methanol, pyruvate, acetate, succinate, lactate, citrate, caproate, caprylate, butyrate, etc. are shown alongside their redox potentials. Usually, the product from the cathode is a mixture of many chemicals and can be targeted for biofuel production with desired properties, similar to crude oil refineries. This way, targeted recovery of biofuel is feasible. Bioelectrochemical oxidation of organic wastes, wastewaters, lignocellulosic wastes and their hydrolysates and stillage streams from biofuel plants as anode substrates using biotic anode harvests electron, releases proton and produces hydrogen, carbon dioxide, pyruvate, formate and fatty acids, which can be reused in cathode for chemical, bioplastic and biofuel productions. Remaining cathode substrates could be wastewaters and lignocellulosic wastes and the cathode reactions are catalytic- electro- hydrogenation, hydrodeoxygenation and reduction reactions to produce biofuel or bioplastic or chemical as the main products and hydrogen, methane, etc. as the gaseous products. The redox potential for carbon dioxide reduction and reuse in product formation in this way is lower than the anode potential, requiring external voltage or electricity. |
| URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032115012678 |
| Title | Global Sustainability and Engineering analysis of Resource recovery Technologies (GSERT) |
| Description | The software developed, Global Sustainability and Engineering analysis of Resource recovery Technologies (GSERT) at Surrey, applies life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) alongside techno-economic and policy analyses for design and decision making of bioelectrochemical systems (BES) for resource recovery from wastewaters (RRfW), e.g. COD removal thereby wastewater treatment in anode and functional nanomaterial, metal, mineral, salt, etc. recovery and carbon dioxide reuse in added value chemical in cathode. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | GSERT now includes social life cycle assessment (SLCA) of RRfW systems. GSERT in the current state of the art also includes life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) methods for environmental feasibility assessment. 1. ILCD 2. CML method 3. USA Traci 4. Impact 2002+ 5. Eco-Indicator 99 GSERT also carries out life cycle costing for aconomic feasibility assessment. The sustainability metrics included "go beyond carbon to understand waste as a resource from the perspective of ecological rather than carbon outcomes". These are: savings in primary resources (fossils, land, water and abiotic), global warming, ozone depletion, acidification, urban smog, eutrophication, aquatic and terrestric ecotoxicity; and human health related impacts: human toxicity cancerous and non-cancerous, asthma, etc., potentials. Social country and sector specific indicators fall under human rights, working conditions, community impacts and governance categories. Our vision is to give an informed holistic decision on RRfW using the software, and have a global outreach via its web-based application. The software also explores country specific policy analysis for RRfW systems, including examples from other countries. GSERT has generated licensing interests amongst leading industries in the area of BES. Licensing will be pursued in collaboration with industries. |
| URL | http://www.theibest.org/Life%20Cycle%20Sustainability%20Assessment%20(LCSA)%20-%20end%20of%20project... |
| Title | University of Surrey: TESARREC™ (Trademark: UK00003321198) https://tesarrec.web.app/sustainability |
| Description | The University of Surrey software TESARREC™ (Trademark: UK00003321198) https://tesarrec.web.app/sustainability has been protected under the following classes of software and technical product. Class 9 Computer software; Data processing software; Industrial process control software; Computer software for use in evaluating waste recycling and management; Computer software for use in evaluating the technical feasibility and life cycle sustainability of resource recovery from waste streams; Computer software for use in evaluating the techno-economic, environmental and social sustainability of recovery of metals, minerals, salts, and organic compounds from biorefinery processes and resource recovery technologies; Computer software for use in evaluating technical feasibility, life cycle assessment and sustainability of bioremediation and valorisation technologies present in waste streams; Computer software for use in evaluating the dynamic performance of bioremediation and valorisation technologies present in waste streams; Computer software for use in evaluating industrial, residential and municipal waste streams; Computer software for use in evaluating industrial, residential and municipal waste streams associated with metals, minerals, salts and organic compounds; Computer software for use in evaluation of organic compounds synthesized by carbon dioxide capture; Computer software for use in evaluating the dynamic performance of organic compounds productions by carbon dioxide capture; Computer software for use in evaluating technical feasibility and life cycle sustainability of organic compounds productions from carbon dioxide capture; Computer software for use in optimising recovery of metals, minerals, salts and organic compounds from waste streams; Computer software for use in evaluating the dynamic performance of recovery of metals, minerals, salts and organic compounds from waste streams; Computer software for use in waste management supply chain optimisation; Computer software for use in waste management, namely for managing the acquisition, sorting, reusing and recycling of waste to avoid landfill or disposal; Computer software for providing business models relating to waste management; Computer software for evaluation and management of biorefinery; Computer software for use in evaluating the technical feasibility, life cycle assessment and sustainability of biorefinery processes; Computer software for use in evaluating the technical feasibility, life cycle assessment and sustainability of biorefinery lignocellulosic platforms encompassing physical, mechanical, pre-treatment, biochemical, electrochemical, thermochemical and chemical unit operations; Computer software for use in evaluating the social and policy implications of recovery of metals, minerals, salts, and organic compounds from biorefinery processes and resource recovery technologies; Computer software for use in evaluating the social and policy implications of organic compounds productions from carbon dioxide capture; Computer software for use in accessing datasets of metal and organic pollutant concentrations in residential, municipal and industrial wastewater streams; Computer software for use in optimising the operational, economic and environmental performances of biorefinery processes and resource recovery technologies. Class 40 Providing information relating to the recycling of waste; Consultancy relating to the destruction of waste and trash; Consultancy relating to the incineration of waste and trash; Consultancy relating to the recycling of waste and trash; Information, advice and consultancy services relating to the recycling of waste and trash. Class 42 Scientific and technological services; Data modelling services for industrial research and analysis; Industrial analysis and research; Scientific research and analysis; Scientific consultancy; Computer aided industrial research services; Computer aided industrial analysis services; Computer aided scientific research services; Computer aided scientific analysis services; Environmental consultancy services; Research relating to waste analysis; Advisory services relating to environmental protection; Advisory services relating to the safety of the environment; Advisory services relating to pollution control; Advisory services relating to environmental pollution; Providing online, non-downloadable software; Providing software on a global computer network. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Sadhukhan et al. at the Centre for Environment and Sustainability in the University of Surrey have created TESARREC™ (UK Trademark: 00003321198, 2015) to solve interdisciplinary sustainability problems by web-based software for use in deduction of default technical, economic, environmental and social life cycle performance evaluations of products and services for net zero greenhouse gas emissions (https://tesarrec.web.app/sustainability). |
| URL | https://tesarrec.web.app/sustainability |