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Overview

Roland Clift is affiliated with the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. Their primary fields of study are Environmental Science and Engineering, with particular focus on Environmental Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, among others.

Their research covers a range of topics including:

  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Sustainable Industrial Ecology
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Roland Clift has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Greenhouse gas emission reduction potential and cost of bioenergy in British Columbia, Canada, 2020, Energy Policy
  • Environmental and economic assessment of torrefied wood pellets from British Columbia, 2020, Energy Conversion and Management
  • Process simulation, techno-economic evaluation and market analysis of supply chains for torrefied wood pellets from British Columbia: Impacts of plant configuration and distance to market, 2020, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • A case study on integrating anaerobic digestion into agricultural activities in British Columbia: Environmental, economic and policy analysis, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Utilization of forestry waste materials in British Columbia: Options and strategies, 2021, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

In addition to journal articles, Clift has published a book titled Food, Feed, Fuel, Timber or Carbon Sink? Towards Sustainable Land Use, released in 2021 by Springer International Publishing.

Frequent co-authors of Roland Clift include:

  • Xiaotao Bi
  • Haoqi Wang
  • Miguel Brandão
  • Llorenç Milà i Canals
  • Huimin Yun

Their work appears in a variety of publication venues, with multiple contributions to The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy Policy, Energy Conversion and Management, and Environmental Pollution.

Best Publications

  • Harmonisation of Environmental Life Cycle Assessment for Agriculture

    R Clift;A Audsley;S Alber;S Cowell

  • The application of life cycle assessment to process optimisation

    A Azapagic;R Clift

  • Motion of entrained particles in gas streams

    R. Clift;W. H. Gauvin

  • The application of Life Cycle Assessment to Integrated Solid Waste Management - Part 1 - Methodology

    R. Clift;A. Doig;Göran Finnveden

  • Life cycle assessment of energy from waste via anaerobic digestion: A UK case study

    Sara Evangelisti;Paola Lettieri;Domenico Borello;Roland Clift

  • Sustainable development in practice : case studies for engineers and scientists

    Adisa Azapagic;Slobodan Perdan;Roland Clift

  • Life cycle assessment and multiobjective optimisation

    A. Azapagic;R. Clift

  • Life Cycle Assessment of activated carbon production from coconut shells

    Noemi Arena;Jacquetta Lee;Roland Clift

  • Soil Organic Carbon Changes in the Cultivation of Energy Crops: Implications for GHG Balances and Soil Quality for Use in LCA

    Miguel Brandão;Llorenç Milà i Canals;Roland Clift

  • Assessing freshwater use impacts in LCA: Part I—inventory modelling and characterisation factors for the main impact pathways

    Llorenç Milà i Canals;Llorenç Milà i Canals;Jonathan Chenoweth;Ashok Chapagain;Stuart Orr

  • Including Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in the Carbon Footprint of Brazilian Beef

    Christel Cederberg;U. Martin Persson;Kristian Neovius;Sverker Molander

  • Slurry Transport Using Centrifugal Pumps

    KC Wilson;GR Addie;R Clift

  • Processing of Particulate Solids

    Jonathan Seville;Uḡur Tüzün;Roland Clift

  • Developing a sustainability framework for the assessment of bioenergy systems

    Lucia Elghali;Roland Clift;Philip Sinclair;Calliope Panoutsou

  • Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

    Roland Clift;Angela Druckman

  • Relationships Between Environmental Impacts and Added Value Along the Supply Chain

    Roland Clift;Lucy Wright

  • Metrics for supply chain sustainability

    Roland Clift

  • The relative importance of transport in determining an appropriate sustainability strategy for food sourcing

    Sarah Sim;Mike Barry;Roland Clift;Sarah J. Cowell

  • On the two-phase theory of fluidization

    J.R. Grace;R. Clift

  • The effect of thin liquid layers on fluidisation characteristics

    J.P.K. Seville;R. Clift

Frequent Co-Authors

Adisa Azapagic
Adisa Azapagic University of Manchester
Mojtaba Ghadiri
Mojtaba Ghadiri University of Leeds
John R. Grace
John R. Grace University of British Columbia
Jonathan Seville
Jonathan Seville University of Birmingham
Paola Lettieri
Paola Lettieri University College London
Llorenç Milà i Canals
Llorenç Milà i Canals United Nations Environment Programme, Paris
Miguel Brandão
Miguel Brandão Royal Institute of Technology
Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson University of Surrey
Fausto Freire
Fausto Freire University of Coimbra
Stephen Morse
Stephen Morse University of Surrey

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