Job Description
PhD studentship in Green Industrial Futures How does uncertainty about decarbonisation of chemical production affect the UK energy system transformation?
This PhD is one of a number of projects hosted by the Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures (CDT-GIF). We are offering pioneering research projects that will enable PhD researchers to explore key technologies and solutions that will support UK industry to reach net zero.
The aim is to understand how technical changes in the UK chemical industry affect its future energy demand, and hence the energy system, using Industrial Ecology methods such as Material Flow Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment to model future chemicals processes operating in the UK and their energy requirements. Uncertainty analysis will enable a full understanding of possible scenarios even with limited data and assumptions. The results of this work are expected to be of direct interest to government and the electricity transm...