Connected, complex, and carbonized: The country archetypes of the petrochemicals sector
Ella, Penny, Chris and Jonathan develop a theoretical archetype model of the petrochemicals industry.
Publications
Coming Soon | Calibrating Energy, Mass, and Money Stocks and Flows within the Human and Resources with MONEY Economic Growth Model
Carey King This article is in preparation. To effectively model the relationships between energy and economic outcomes (e.g., gross domestic product, employment, wages, and debt) it is useful...
Coming Soon | Programmatic Material Flow Analysis: driving process systems through logic
Rick Lupton This article is in preparation. Models of material flows and processes used for Life Cycle Assessment and Material Flow Analysis are most commonly linear in nature,...
Coming Soon | Exploring the technically-plausible solution space, levers and interactions for emissions reduction in the global petrochemical industry
Stephen S. Doliente, Rick Lupton, Yunhu Gao, Enze Jin, Fanran Meng, Luke Cullen, Eric Massanet, André Cabrera Serrenho, and Jonathan M. Cullen This article is in preparation. Eliminating...
Coming Soon | Re-evaluation of end-of-life treatment options for plastics
Fanran Meng & Jonathan M. Cullen This article is in preparation. The desirability of plastic products has led to unprecedented growth in demand since the 1950s when the...
Coming Soon | Connected, Complex, and Carbonized: The Geographic Archetypes of the Petrochemicals Sector
Ella T. Jennings, Penny J Hamlin, Chris Hamlin and Jonathan M. Cullen This article is under review. The petrochemicals sector is known to be “hard-to-decarbonise” due to its...
Coming Soon | Achieving net-zero U.S. ammonia: Technology and policy options and their emissions, investment, and cost tradeoffs
Banafsheh Jabarivelisdeh, Enze Jin, Phillip Christopher, and Eric Masanet This article is under review. Ammonia production is responsible for around 35% of the CO2 emissions associated with the...
Coming Soon | Consistency and completeness of data on the global petrochemicals sector’s emissions
Dominika Malkowska, Rick Lupton, Georgie Wellock, Stephen Boyle, Fanran Meng, Luke Cullen, and Jonathan M. Cullen This article is under review. In this study the consistency and completeness...
Coming Soon | Evaluating the potential to reduce the global demand for virgin polymers
Yunhu Gao & André Cabrera Serrenho This article is under review. The widespread use of polymers leads to several environmental challenges, particularly greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and ecosystem...
Coming soon | Greenhouse gas emissions from global petrochemical production (1978-2050)
Fanran Meng, Luke Cullen, Rick Lupton, Jonathan M. Cullen This article is currently under review. The petrochemical industry is responsible for 13% of global industrial and 3.5% of...