SuPER - Sustainable Production, Energy and Resources

Sustainable Development and Cleaner Production in Minerals and Energy Production

Sustainable development is a three-pronged attack on the future. It is shorthand for balancing economic progress, social equity and environmental quality to provide fulfilling lifestyles for the planet’s inhabitants, both now and in the future. Sustainable development has been progressively embraced by leading industries, national governments, international organisations and financial instituti...

Sustainable Production of Woody Biomass for Energy

Sustainable production and future trend

Over the last 50 years the world’s population and industrialization have soared leading to increased resource use, pollution and waste, and in turn to problems including raw materials shortage and unsustainable increases in landfill areas environmental, social and economic expectation stakeholders of the company every day more and more. Designing products with reuse at end of life in mind is a ...

Nonregenerative natural resources in a sustainable system of energy supply.

Following the lead of the European Union in introducing binding measures to promote the use of regenerative energy forms, it is not unreasonable to assume that the global demand for combustible raw materials for energy generation will be reduced considerably in the second half of this century. This will not only have a favourable effect on the CO(2) concentration in the atmosphere, but will al...

Preparation and characterization of nanomaterials for sustainable energy production.

The use of nanotechnology to develop a suite of sustainable energy production schemes is one of the most important scientific challenges of the 21st century. The challenge is to design, to synthesize, and to characterize new functional nanomaterials with controllable sizes, shapes, and/or structures. To summarize the progress of the research and development made in this important field, the Fue...