Knowledge Hub

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Research Programme

POLICY REPORT: Decarbonising UK Glass and Ceramics: Building an Evidence Base

POLICY REPORT: Recommendations for Policymakers to Accelerate Industrial Decarbonisation in the UK

JOURNAL: Biomass and bioenergy technologies assessment for net-zero transitions: Resource potential, performance, technology readiness, and system constraints

POLICY REPORT: Potential Of Consumer Led Flexibility in Industry

REPORT: IDRIC's Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plans: Pathways from strategic planning to net zero delivery

JOURNAL: Prospective life cycle assessment suggests direct reduced iron is the most sustainable pathway to net-zero steelmaking

JOURNAL: Dynamic imaging of the effect of pore microstructure factors on fine particle migration and deposition during fluid flow through porous media

JOURNAL: Coupled hysteresis and variogram-controlled heterogeneity effects on underground hydrogen storage in saline aquifers

JOURNAL: Revising the theoretical storage potential of hydrogen in UK salt caverns: a multi-criteria assessment of the east coast of England

JOURNAL: Updating the environmental regulation of liquified CO₂ storage in ports to support carbon capture and storage plans in the UK

JOURNAL: Spectral characterisation of non-premixed H₂/CO₂ jet flames

JOURNAL: Critical appraisal of integrated computational fluid dynamics/surface roughness models for additive manufactured swirl burners

JOURNAL: Relationships between milling input energy and chemical reactivity for mechanochemical activation of clays

JOURNAL: Price of greenness: Classifications and green bond premiums

JOURNAL: Feldspar alteration by disequilibrium CO₂-H₂O fluids in reservoir sandstones: implications for CCS

JOURNAL: Structural controls on pressure communication across the Bunter Sandstone Formation, UK Southern North Sea

JOURNAL: Evaluation of the Röt Halite Member as a top seal for carbon dioxide storage in the Southern North Sea

JOURNAL: Beyond industrial decarbonisation strategy: Lessons from the bottom-up policy mix in the United Kingdom, 2021–2023

JOURNAL: Navigating reconfiguration and systems disruption: Decarbonisation pathways for UK industrial clusters

POLICY WORKSHOP SUMMARY REPORT: Decarbonising the Ceramics Sector: Building an Evidence Base

POLICY WORKSHOP OUTPUT: Industrial Consumer-Led Flexibility Summary Report

JOURNAL: Economic and life cycle assessment of novel hybrid energy and fuel generation systems from municipal waste through plasma gasification and anaerobic digestion coupled with carbon capture and storage

JOURNAL: Critical review and recommendations for strengthening health and safety and major accident prevention regulations for carbon capture and storage in UK ports

MIP 1.1 An integrated energy system planning tool for net zero industrial clusters

JOURNAL: Decarbonisation pathways for industrial clusters through multi-energy systems

JOURNAL: Using spatial imaginaries to understand contested senses of place and just transitions in decarbonising industrial regions

JOURNAL: Pilot scale demonstration of potential for decarbonisation of industrial heating processes using hydrogen cofiring

WEBINAR: Humberside, Teesside and Bacton-Thames clusters

WEBINAR: North-West England and Peak clusters

WEBINAR: Scotland cluster

POLICY WORKSHOP SUMMARY REPORT: Decarbonising the Glass Sector: Building an Evidence Base

REPORT: Compliance Checklist for Decarbonising Maritime Shipping

REPORT: Decarbonising Maritime Shipping: Regulatory Landscape

JOURNAL: Alternative maritime fuels for net-zero shipping: A comprehensive operational, techno-economic and regulatory review

REPORT: IDRIC's Research and Innovation Agenda for Net Zero Industries

JOURNAL: Beyond geography, destiny, and politics: Exploring policy styles for industrial decarbonisation in Norway, the United Arab Emirates and the United States

JOURNAL: Increasing the yield of volatile fatty acids from pilot scale biorefining of steel‑making syngas using recursive membrane extraction

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BRIEFING PAPER: MaritimeTwin - Innovate UK Project: Pathways to UK maritime decarbonisation

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WHITE PAPER: MaritimeTwin - Innovate UK Project: Green Shipping Corridors (GSCs) & near term instruments for decarbonising UK maritime routes

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JOURNAL: Beyond carbon emissions reductions: Examining the co-benefits of industrial decarbonisation in the United Kingdom

JOURNAL: Realising a locally-embedded just transition: Sense of place, lived experience, and social perceptions of industrial decarbonisation in the United Kingdom

MIP 3.3 Risk in decarbonisation finance

JOURNAL: When dealers trade faster: Duration-based liquidity in European electronic bond markets

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JOURNAL: Community-based research supports more just and equitable industrial decarbonisation

JOURNAL: Scientific literature on carbon dioxide removal revealed as much larger through AI-enhanced systematic mapping

JOURNAL: Dynamics of knowledge production: A relational-event analysis of patent citation hazards in hydrogen technologies

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INDUSTRIAL DECARBONISATION FRONTIERS REPORT: Carbon Capture

Green Finance

JOURNAL: Forecasting carbon prices: A literature review

JOURNAL: Pilot-scale demonstration and practical challenges of bioenergy with CCS (BECCS) using rotating packed bed

INDUSTRIAL DECARBONISATION FRONTIERS REPORT: Systems Planning and Decision-Making Tools

INDUSTRIAL DECARBONISATION FRONTIERS REPORT: Circular economy

INDUSTRIAL DECARBONISATION FRONTIERS REPORT: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

INDUSTRIAL DECARBONISATION FRONTIERS REPORT: Electrification

JOURNAL: Social licence in principle and practice: industrial decarbonisation in regional clusters

JOURNAL: The effects of NaOH addition on the mechanochemical pre-treatment of wollastonite and their performances as carbonated mineral product

INDUSTRIAL DECARBONISATION FRONTIERS REPORT: Workforce for Net Zero: Skills, Planning and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

INDUSTRIAL DECARBONISATION FRONTIERS REPORT: CO₂ Transport and Storage

INDUSTRIAL DECARBONISATION FRONTIERS REPORT: Hydrogen Transport and Storage

INDUSTRIAL DECARBONISATION FRONTIERS REPORT: Hydrogen Generation

INDUSTRIAL DECARBONISATION FRONTIERS REPORT: Public Perceptions and Just Transitions

JOURNAL: Enhanced CO₂ electrolysis through Mn substitution coupled with Ni exsolution in lanthanum calcium titanate electrodes

JOURNAL: Carbon-based electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction

JOURNAL: Comparative energy and exergy analysis of ortho-para hydrogen and non-ortho-para hydrogen conversion in hydrogen liquefaction

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: Demonstration of negative CO₂ emissions with BECCS using process intensification

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: Establishing an inter-cluster batchwise carbon capture and storage network in the UK

INDUSTRIAL DECARBONISATION FRONTIERS REPORT: Green Finance and Economic Considerations

JOURNAL: Effect of dissolved oxygen concentration on activated sludge bacterial community and oxygen uptake rate in a SBR using co-produced oxygen from a PEM hydrogen electrolyser

JOURNAL: PHA from acetic acid: Manipulating microbial production of polyhydroxyalkanoates for use in steel coatings

JOURNAL: Industry stakeholder perceptions of carbon capture, utilisation, and storage: The case study of the Tees Valley industrial cluster

WORKSHOP OUTPUT: Bridging the Gaps Enhancing CCUS and engineered GGRs through collaborative discussion

MIP 7.7

JOURNAL: Does swirl number affect the radiative and convective heat transfer from diffusion hydrogen-methane blended flames?

JOURNAL: Sodium nitrite-sodium nitrate eutectic based composite phase change material (CPCM) for medium-temperature thermal energy storage (TES): Exploring the relationship between microstructures and thermal properties

JOURNAL: Design and modelling of mobile thermal energy storage (M−TES) using structured composite phase change material modules

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JOURNAL: Putting bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in a spatial context: What should go where?

JOURNAL: Regional employment implications of deploying CO₂ transport and storage to decarbonise the UK's industry clusters

JOURNAL: Enhancement strategies of calcium looping technology and CaO-based sorbents for carbon capture

JOURNAL: Competing values, ideologies and lock-in dependencies in sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonisation

JOURNAL: Bridging the gap between defossilisation and decarbonisation to achieve net-zero industry

JOURNAL: Hydration and carbonation curing of high ferrite clinker (FePC) synthesised using EAF slag

JOURNAL: Production of alinite-chlormayenite clinker and its hydration behaviour with increasing gypsum content

JOURNAL: Spatial and temporal evolution of laser-induced flame kernels in a methane jet injected into air

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JOURNAL: Bioprocess modelling assisted analysis of light and temperature effects on Dunaliella tertiolecta’s growth in bicarbonate/carbonate medium for algae-based carbon capture

JOURNAL: A life cycle assessment study of UK decarbonised ammonia, cement, methanol and steel for emission insetting

INDUSTRIAL DECARBONISATION FRONTIERS REPORT: Industrial Heat and Energy Efficiency

INDUSTRIAL DECARBONISATION FRONTIERS REPORT: Policy and Governance

JOURNAL: A performance modeling study for zero fossil CO₂ stack operation and solvent thermal reclaiming in post-combustion capture industrial applications

INDUSTRIAL DECARBONISATION FRONTIERS REPORT: Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies

POLICY INSIGHT REPORT: Industrial decarbonisation: challenges and opportunities in planning, consenting and permitting for a timely and sustainable transition

MIP 9.1 Learning from international experience in decarbonising industrial clusters

JOURNAL: Clusters in context: Towards a typology of industrial decarbonisation initiatives

TOOLKIT: Towards Fair Net Zero UK Industrial Clusters: Place-based just transition strategies for communities, governments, and industries

JOURNAL: A Place-based, Just Transition framework can guide industrial decarbonisation with a social licence

JOURNAL: Developing a new conceptual salt precipitation model in CO₂ storage processes in aquifers

JOURNAL: Evaluation of Coriolis meter performance for flow and density measurement of supercritical CCS fluids

JOURNAL: Promoting e-chemical production by optimising the cathode–anode pair

JOURNAL: Dynamic structures of knowledge production: Citation rates in hydrogen technologies

JOURNAL: Preventing salt precipitation in CO₂ storage processes in saline aquifers: Dissolved-water CO₂ injection method

JOURNAL: Time-lapse 3D imaging and modelling of acid-rock interactions within a mudstone: Implications for cap-rock behaviour during carbon storage

JOURNAL: Imagining a net-zero Teesside: Actors, networks, and expectations in industrial decarbonisation megaprojects

MIP 9.3 Knowledge transfer and innovation diffusion

JOURNAL: GVC participation and carbon emissions – A network analysis

MIP 1.5 Understanding public responses to industrial decarbonisation in insecure times

JOURNAL: The infrastructural ecologies of industrial decarbonisation: Visual methods and psychosocial logics in place-based public engagement

MIP 2.2 Carbon dioxide - ports to pipelines

JOURNAL: Technical, economic, and environmental assessment of CO₂ ship transport in carbon capture and storage

REPORT: Quantification of the UK CO₂ storage export potential for a carbon capture and storage service

JOURNAL: Hydrogen-induced mineral alteration: A review in the context of underground hydrogen storage (UHS) in saline aquifers

JOURNAL: Comparative life cycle assessments of laboratory and Pilot-scale Mechanochemical processes for producing carbonated mineral products as cement substitutes

JOURNAL: Evaluating the impact of the viscosity ratio on miscible viscous fingering in subsurface processes

JOURNAL: Framing industrial decarbonisation technologies in the public sphere: narratives from the digital ‘town square’ in the United Kingdom

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JOURNAL: Life cycle environmental trade-off of decarbonising UK industrial clusters — A cradle to gate approach

MIP 1.2 Industrial clusters: evaluating carbon dioxide underground in bunter closures (ICECUBE)

JOURNAL: Diagenetic evolution of the Bunter Sandstone Formation and its controls on reservoir quality: Implications for CO₂ injectivity and storage

Green Finance

JOURNAL: Collaboration in decarbonisation research: Comparing the UK and European funding landscape

JOURNAL: Conceptual design and thermodynamic investigation of novel energy and fuel generation systems from municipal waste coupled with carbon capture and storage

POLICY BRIEF: Skills for decarbonising UK industry

POLICY BRIEF: Carbon accounting: Priorities, challenges and strategic developments

REPORT & VIDEO: Expert workshop gives a reality check on bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS): trust, demand, and collaboration are critical

MIP 1.2 Industrial clusters: evaluating carbon dioxide underground in bunter closures (ICECUBE)

JOURNAL: Finding least-cost net-zero CO₂e strategies for the European cement industry using geospatial techno-economic modelling

JOURNAL: Green flight paths: a catalyst for net-zero aviation by 2050

JOURNAL: Co-deployment of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in the UK: Growth or gridlock?

BOOK CHAPTER: Accepting idealised solar farm portrayals? Exploring underlying contingencies

MIP 3.1 A Smart Decision Modelling (SDM) tool for industrial cluster decarbonisation

JOURNAL: Transitioning or tinkering at a net-zero economy? Introducing an assessment framework for industrial cluster decarbonisation in the United Kingdom

REPORT: CC(U)S Futures 2: Visions from within the sector

News

REPORT: Transforming industry: Strategic policy insights for Scotland's industrial decarbonisation

Equality Diversity & Inclusion

JOURNAL: Towards a unified carbon accounting landscape

REPORT: Seismic hazard assessment for the UK offshore exclusive economic zone

TRAINING: Climate change awareness and future career opportunities

MIP 3.3 Risk in decarbonisation finance

JOURNAL: Are green bonds special?

JOURNAL: Carbon dioxide removal could result in the use of lower-grade iron ore in a decarbonised net-negative emission steel industry

JOURNAL: The impact of design and operational parameters on the optimal performance of direct air capture units using solid sorbents

JOURNAL: Corporate bonds trading more certainly realised at short notice: alternative models of market liquidity

REPORT: Diversity to decarbonise: Promoting EDI in the future workforce

JOURNAL: A holistic platform for accelerating sorbent-based carbon capture

JOURNAL: Operability-economics trade-offs in adsorption-based CO₂ capture processes

JOURNAL: A new straightforward darcy-scale compositional solver in OpenFOAM for CO₂/water mutual solubility in CO₂ storage processes in aquifers

JOURNAL: Relating pore-scale observations to continuum-scale models: Impact of ganglion dynamics on flow transport kinetics

JOURNAL: Beyond the factory: Ten interdisciplinary lessons for industrial decarbonisation practice and policy

REPORT: CC(U)S Futures 1: Visions from the Scottish Cluster

JOURNAL: CO₂ gas hydrate for carbon capture and storage applications

POLICY BRIEF: Exploring the impacts of the adopted carbon capture approach to the Scottish chemical industry and the wider Scottish economy

JOURNAL: An air and moisture stable boat shaped hydroxo-bridged ruthenium(II) binuclear complex for the catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide

REPORT: Inspiring young minds: Work skills readiness for decarbonisation in the Humber

POLICY BRIEF: Low-carbon reorientation in steel, oil refining and petrochemical industries

JOURNAL: “Oh Yes! Net-Zero”: Sociotechnical capabilities and regional innovation systems for British industrial decarbonisation

JOURNAL: Explaining varying speeds of low-carbon reorientation in the United Kingdom's steel, petrochemical, and oil refining industries: A multi-dimensional comparative analysis and outlook

JOURNAL: Reconfiguring European industry for net-zero: A qualitative review of hydrogen and carbon capture utilisation and storage benefits and implementation challenges

POLICY BRIEF: Driving effective workforce planning and project sequencing to aid efforts to decarbonise UK industry clusters and boost associated economy wide impacts

REPORT: Understanding and addressing labour supply constraints and their impact on efforts to decarbonise UK industry clusters and the wider economy

JOURNAL: Leading the post-industrial revolution? Policy windows, issue linkage and decarbonisation dynamics in the UK’s net-zero strategy (2010–2022)

MIP 3.4: Net zero sense of place

JOURNAL: Imagining and emplacing net zero industrial clusters: A critical analysis of stakeholder discourses

JOURNAL: Energy, material, and resource efficiency for industrial decarbonisation: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options

VIDEO: Will industrial decarbonisation produce resilient communities? - Understanding risk

TRAINING: The decarbonisation of heating and cooling eLearning course

POLICY BRIEF: Assessing the role that a CO₂ transport and storage sector could play in transitioning away from oil and gas extraction

MIP 6.4. Carbon Dioxide Stored 2.0 - Next generation of the UK’s carbon dioxide storage database

DATABASE: CO₂Stored 2.0 database

GUIDANCE: Enabling a place-based, just transition to net zero - Guidance for stakeholders in Grangemouth

GUIDANCE: Enabling a place-based, just transition to net zero - Guidance for stakeholders in Ellesmere Port

GUIDANCE: Enabling a place-based, just transition to net zero - Guidance for stakeholders in Milford Haven

MIP 7.5 Reducing CO2 emissions with improved hydrogen recovery processes

JOURNAL: Thermochemical splitting of CO₂ on perovskites for CO production: A review

REPORT: Ten interdisciplinary lessons for industrial decarbonisation practice and policy: IDRIC’s First Research Synthesis Report

POLICY BRIEF: Providing certainty and acting with urgency – addressing skills and worker shortages for industrial decarbonisation

REPORT: Securing the economic and environmental benefits from the transition to net zero – opportunities for policy in Scotland.

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POLICY BRIEF: Understanding jobs demand and displacement outcomes of decarbonising UK industry clusters

JOURNAL: Sunset and sunrise business strategies shaping national energy transitions

JOURNAL: A review of analogue case studies relevant to large-scale underground hydrogen storage

WEBINAR: Creating a carbon framework for a decarbonised circular economy

WEBINAR: Establishing an inter-cluster batchwise carbon capture and storage network in the UK

WEBINAR: Industrial energy infrastructure for a decarbonising Britain

JOURNAL: From brew to clean fuel: harnessing distillery wastewater for electrolysis H₂ generation using nano scale nickle selenide water oxidation catalysts

WEBINAR: Determining optimum pyrolysis temperature for biochar to be used as metallurgical coal replacement

WEBINAR: Inspiring young minds: work skills readiness for decarbonisation in the Humber

WEBINAR: Diversity to decarbonise: Promoting EDI in the future workforce

VIDEO: Introducing the place-based just transition framework

MIP 1.3 Life cycle analysis framework for industrial decarbonisation

JOURNAL: Improving life cycle assessment for carbon capture and circular product systems

POLICY BRIEF: The importance of early employment and government revenue gains in governing the wider economy costs and benefits of deploying UK CCUS

JOURNAL: Industrial carbon capture utilisation and storage in the UK: The importance of wage responses in conditioning the outcomes of a new UK carbon dioxide transport and storage industry emerging in a labour supply constrained economy

JOURNAL: A robust framework for generating adsorption isotherms to screen materials for carbon capture

JOURNAL: How to decarbonise our energy systems: process-informed design of new materials for carbon capture

WEBINAR: Accelerating the scale-up of next-generation fuels from CO₂

WEBINAR: Enabling hydrogen storage near industrial clusters: Phase I and II

POLICY BRIEF: Delivering place-sensitive, fair industrial decarbonisation

MIP 8.2 Industrial NETs using alkaline materials

JOURNAL: Remediating the sky: the role of geoenvironmental engineers and applied geoscientists in geochemical carbon dioxide removal

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JOURNAL: Unfolding low-carbon reorientation in a declining industry: A contextual analysis of changing company strategies in UK oil refining (1990–2023)

JOURNAL: Synergy between industry and agriculture: Techno-economic and life cycle assessments of waste recovery for crop growth in glasshouses

JOURNAL: An inventory of UK mineral resources suitable for enhanced rock weathering

WEBINAR: The wider economy and competitiveness impacts of employing pre- and post-combustion carbon capture in UK industries

WEBINAR: A new seismic hazard model to support decarbonisation in offshore regions around the UK

WEBINAR: Net zero sense of place

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POLICY BRIEF: Cost and energy input requirement assessment of carbon capture and storage technology application in the Scottish Chemical industry

REPORT: Will industrial decarbonisation produce resilient communities?

WEBINAR: VFA factory for decarbonisation and VFA to PHA

WEBINAR: Sustainable land-use delivery of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)

WEBINAR: Understanding public responses to industrial decarbonisation in insecure times

WEBINAR: Toolkit to design and evaluate the performance of low carbon infrastructure

WEBINAR: Enabling low carbon fuel technology deployment for power and high-temperature heat across the clusters

JOURNAL: Underground hydrogen storage: A UK perspective

MIP 1.1 An integrated energy system planning tool for net zero industrial clusters

JOURNAL: Industrial cluster energy systems integration and management tool

BRIEFING NOTE: Grid constraints and industrial decarbonisation

WEBINAR: Net zero sense of place

WEBINAR: Enabling hydrogen storage near industrial clusters: enhancing confidence in porous rocks

WEBINAR: Integrated assessment of BECCS in context: environmental, policy, regulatory and social factors

MIP 3.4: Net zero sense of place

TOOLKIT: Net zero sense of place framework

REPORT: Net zero sense of place multi-stakeholder dialogues - Phase 3 summary report

REPORT: How does the sense of place of host communities shape people’s views on Net Zero industrial clusters? - Phase 2 summary report

JOURNAL: Investigation of process parameters for solar fuel production using earth-abundant materials

JOURNAL: Embedding flexibility to the design of pressure-vacuum swing adsorption processes for CO₂ capture

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