Projects

Product Innovation is increasingly used to enhance people’s lifestyles while reducing the negative impact of manufacturing on the planet.

Identification of new opportunities for improving energy efficiency in food manufacturing

System-change for unavoidable food waste

The aim of this project is to develop and test flexible, non-invasive water analysis instrumentation to monitor in-plant effluent flows.

Establishing feasibility of the application of distributed manufacturing to specific products in the food sector in order to reduce environmental impact and support local economies.

Reformulated food products for health and sustainability

Improve FSC decisions by using the 'Internet of Things' to reduce resource consumption and negative environmental impacts

Exploring what it means to be resilient for actors in UK food supply chains

Consumer food waste has the highest level of environmental and economic negative impacts compared to waste generated at other stages of the supply chain.

A framework to optimise decision-making with regard to food waste management

This project proposes a systematic framework for addressing the ‘Societal Value’ of toys as part of an integrated sustainability assessment and allows the evaluation and comparison beyond products’ shared functionality.

This research explores the application of reconfigurable processes within recycling systems.

Embedding environmental considerations into manufacturing decisions.

The overall aim of the research is to facilitate the principle of “doing more with less” in terms of resources consumed in manufacturing applications.

This project investigated how sustainability considerations can be systematically incorporated into product design processes.

The overall aim of this research is to design and develop the next generation of hybrid-vehicle recycling technologies.

Understanding the availability of waste energy from manufacturing processes.

This project aims to augment the current level understanding of waste management by addressing key areas including technology, modelling and decision making.

The overall research aim was to enable the environmental footprint of plastics packaging to be reduced through the most appropriate selection and utilisation of biopolymers whilst providing companies with a design framework to support their sustainable pa

The overall aim of the research was to investigate the water usage at the process level within manufacturing applications and to facilitate water reduction through the development of a water simulation model and a water optimiser decision support tool.

Improve the environmental footprint and long-term sustainability of the packaging industry

A review of end-of-life options for solid -oxide fuel cells.

This project investigates reconfigurable recycling systems to support closed-loop manufacturing of shoes, leather goods and products containing similar materials.

Improving WEEE recovery through the application of a novel recycling process planning framework.