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SUMMARY:Blue Skies\, Greener Future: A Global Renaissance of Metallurgy
DESCRIPTION:Blue Skies\, Greener Future: A Global Renaissance of Metallurgy: The Birth of Metallurgy 2.0 \nSpeaker: Professor Zhongyun Fan \nMetals are the backbone of global manufacturing and the fuel for economic growth. However\, extraction and processing of metals are highly energy intensive and cause severe environmental damage: metal extraction accounts for 12% of global primary energy demand and 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The global grand challenge is to decouple economic growth from environmental damage. The worldwide sustainability crisis has led to a complete rethink of how we source\, formulate and deploy metallic materials in the future\, triggering a global renaissance of metallurgy and giving birth to Metallurgy 2.0. In this context\, we have developed a vision for full metal circulation (FMC)\, under which the global demand for metallic materials will be met by a full circulation of secondary metals without the need for either mining or metal extraction. \nSpeaker: Prof. Zhongyun Fan is a professor of metallurgy\, the founder and Director of BCAST at Brunel University London. He is the principal investigator/director of the EPSRC funded LiME Research Hub\, a national centre of excellence in liquid metal engineering. He is also the principal investigator for the UKRI Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Centre for Circular Metals. \nHe has published over 400 scientific papers with an H-Index of 59 and a total citation of 14071 (Google Scholar). He has led a wide range of research projects as principal investigator with grants totalling over £70M. \nHe has been chairman of 4 major international conferences and members international scientific committee of 6 international conferences. He was the co-chairmen of the Casting and Solidification Society (IOM3\, 2012-2018)\, is a Board Member of the Light Metals Division (IOM3)\, a Fellow of the Institute of IOM3 and the Institute of Cast Metal Engineers (ICME). He was the recipient of the Elegant Work Prize (1995)\, the Cook/Ablett Award (2003) and Dowding Medal and Prize (2012) of the Institute of Materials\, Minerals and Mining (IOM3).
URL:https://transfire-hub.org/event/blue-skies-greener-future-a-global-renaissance-of-metallurgy/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom
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SUMMARY:Challenges in Sustainability Reporting Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Following in depth research with local businesses TransFIRe in partnership with North Lincolnshire Council invite you to attend a series of curated events focusing on sustainability. \nIn response to the increasing pressure to report on your sustainability credentials\, how can sustainability metrics help evidence the positive benefits of your activities? \nTransFIRe is seeking to help high energy using companies to understand and use the emerging reporting requirements to benefit both their competitiveness as well as their sustainability reporting and performance. \nWe particularly welcome SMEs to these events in addition to larger companies. \nThis first event brings you a webinar to brief you on the emerging reporting requirements\, provide examples of how metrics have been used in other businesses to best effect and interactively share local good practice. \nYou will also get insight to the latest thinking of how working with wider stakeholders boosts long term performance. \nFollowing this event we will be holding an in-person workshop to get into the detail of sustainability metrics and how they can aid your journey to net zero. (19th July\, details to follow) \nAutumn 2023 will bring in-company support for scoping and defining your metrics to support the sustainability and competitiveness objectives of your business. \nEach event is optional\, there is no obligation to commit to all events. There is no charge for any stage as this support is funded by the government’s UKRI research and innovation body. \nPlease visit this link for full information and to register:  Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams \nBy booking on to this webinar you agree to North Lincolnshire Council sharing your contact details with the TransFIRe Project: \n\nEvent Details\n15:00  \nDr. Peter Ball \nIntroduction\, the TransFIRe project and how it is contributing to more sustainable businesses in energy intensive sectors. \nPeter Ball is Professor of Operations Management in the School of Business and Society at the University of York. His research focuses on how operations practices underpin performance. Current research projects have system level improvements at their heart. Application areas span operations\, manufacturing and supply chain management. Through a management lens\, he seeks to understand how processes in business behave and how they can be improved. His work includes sustainability\, circular economy\, eco-efficient manufacturing and more generally addressing productivity. Beyond the TFI TransFIRe project\, his recent work includes FixOurFood food systems transformation with emphasis on new business models and industry peer-to-peer learning for sustainability. He has served as a judge on the IET’s and Make UK’s innovation awards\, particularly their innovation\, education and sustainability categories. \n  \n15:20  \nJuan Ramon Candia\, MSc\, PGDip\, PhD (s) \nThe jungle of sustainability standards and emerging reporting requirements \nJuan Ramón Candia (JR) has 25+ years of experience as innovation and sustainability expert\, manager of high-performance teams\, applied researcher\, environmental consultant\, entrepreneur\, mentor of start-ups\, board member\, government official\, UN consultant.  He has worked on various strategic sustainability challenges for a dozen of sectors/industries (e.g. mining\, tourism\, banking\, retail\, chemical\, fishing\, water utilities\, NGOs\, government\, among others) on issues of climate change\, water management\, biodiversity conservation\, remediation on contaminated sites\, cleaner production\, performance indicators\, among others.  JR is currently doing his PhD research on Digital Climate Solutions and innovative sustainable business models at the School for Business & Society from the University of York\, UK. \n  \n15:40  \nDr Gavin Milligan (PhD\, C.Chem\, MRSC\, FIFST\, FRSA)\, Director\, Green Knight Sustainability Consulting Ltd \nDrivers and good practice in communicating sustainability performance – case studies from industry \nDr Gavin Milligan has over 30 years’ industrial experience in positions up to Board level\, in businesses of various sizes\, from SMEs to large multinationals and has worked in diverse roles including operations\, supply chain\, procurement and sales. He now owns and runs Green Knight Sustainability Consulting Ltd\, developing and delivering sustainability strategies for a wide range of organisations. Current and former clients include businesses in aerospace\, chemicals\, construction\, engineering\, food\, packaging and medical devices\, together with trade bodies\, public and third-sector organisations and academic research bodies. A qualified scientist\, Gavin is also active within academia lecturing on supply chains and Lifecycle Assessments and co-authoring research papers. \n  \n16:00 – Circular Economy Indicators \n16:15 – Q&A \n16:30 – Closure \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://transfire-hub.org/event/challenges-on-sustainability-reporting-webinar/
LOCATION:Virtual – Microsoft Teams
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ORGANIZER;CN="TransFIRe":MAILTO:joanna.johnson@cranfield.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Net-Zero\, Industrial Decarbonisation\, and the ‘Non-Technical’ Dimensions of Transformative Change
DESCRIPTION:SKAPE is delighted to host Kyle Parker and Steve Yearley (University of Edinburgh). \nKyle and Steve will be presenting on “Net-Zero\, Industrial Decarbonisation\, and the ‘Non-Technical’ Dimensions of Transformative Change”. \nAbstract: \nThis talk reports on research being conducted within STIS as part of the UK’s TransFIRe Hub – a large investment by UKRI/EPSRC involving over 20 investigators from 12 UK institutions\, in addition to Project Partners from more than 70 organisations (including companies\, NGOs and government organisations.  \nTransFIRe is about the meeting point of two huge challenges and transformations confronting UK industry: namely\, the impacts of Brexit on international competitiveness\, and the drive towards decarbonisation and the UK’s 2050 ‘Net-Zero’ target.  This is of particular importance to the so-called Foundation Industries (FI) – the energy-intensive industries that produce the material from which other products are made (for example\, metals\, glass and ceramics). Ordinary people are seldom customers for foundation-industry products\, but they (we) buy the things made from FI outputs.  \nIn this talk we will draw on policy analyses and one main Scottish\, industry case study to investigate how the future of the Foundation Industries is being shaped and imagined or ignored in the UK. Most of the research that is currently being conducted on FIs is focused on technical adaptations and improvements. Our emphasis is on other factors\, including the planning system\, political objectives\, and community-industry relations. Though this research is focused on the UK\, the talk has implications for comparable OECD member states.  \nSpeakers: \nKyle Parker: After working as an academic research chemist for 10 years\, in 2018 I came to the University of Edinburgh to study policy support for accelerating technology development in Scotland’s marine renewable energy sector.  From 2020-2022 I worked as a Research Fellow on the ‘Energy Policy Effectiveness’ project for the ClimateXChange research agency\, where I produced systematic evidence reviews on energy and climate change policy issues on behalf of the Scottish Government.  This work focused primarily on green industrial strategy\, and accelerating the deployment of low carbon heating and energy efficiency technologies in Scotland.   \nI currently work as a Research Fellow on the TransFIRe (Transforming the Foundation Industries Research Hub) project\, studying the socioeconomic dimensions of transformative change and industrial decarbonisation.   \nSteve Yearley holds the Chair in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK) in STIS\, the subject area of “Science\, Technology and Innovation Studies”.  \nSteve is well known for his work in social studies of science and in environmental sociology. Key to his work is thinking about environmental issues from an STS or SSK point of view – for example\, looking at the ways in which environmental activists have adapted to dealing with scientific evidence.  \nIn his empirical work Steve is particularly concerned with areas where STS and environmental sociology overlap: for example in environmental controversies with a pronounced scientific element (such as with climate change and with continuing disputes over the safety or otherwise of GMOs and the associated concerns around synthetic biology) or\, for example\, in attempts to foster public engagement in technical decision-making in environmental areas (for instance\, through his work on citizen engagement in urban air-quality issues). Currently\, Steve is working on industrial decarbonisation in the UK\, and also doing some writing that links back to his work at the Genomics Forum.  \n______________ \nThis event will take place in person at the University of Edinburgh\, Chrystal Macmillan Building\, Room 2.15.
URL:https://transfire-hub.org/event/net-zero-industrial-decarbonisation-and-the-non-technical-dimensions-of-transformative-change/
LOCATION:University of Edinburgh\, Chrystal Macmillan Building\, Room 2.15
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SUMMARY:Deploying AI Solutions in Foundation Industries
DESCRIPTION:TransFIRe Seminar\nDeploying AI Solutions in Foundation Industries: Lessons Learned from ‘Furnace AI’ \nDr Peter Green\, University of Liverpool \nTuesday 20 December\n9am – 9.45am (30 minutes talk and 15 minutes questions)\nZoom (details below description) \nAll are invited to an online TransFIRe seminar on Zoom\, aligned with the Glass Technical Working Group. \nThis presentation focuses on the outputs of a recent deployment of an AI-based monitoring system for float glass manufacturing with NSG Pilkington: Furnace AI. We discuss the challenges associated with transitioning AI solutions from academia to industry\, with a focus on both technical aspects (e.g. scalability to large datasets\, the removal of data that is towards the end of its lifecycle) alongside the ‘softer’ challenges that must also be addressed during deployment (e.g. risk ownership and user trust). Finally\, based on the outcomes of the Furnace AI project\, potential avenues of future research are suggested. \n  \nTopic: TransFIRe Seminar – Dr. Peter Green \nTime: Dec 20\, 2022 09:00 AM London \n  \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://shu.zoom.us/j/93627963585 \n  \nMeeting ID: 936 2796 3585 \nOne tap mobile \n+442080806592\,\,93627963585# United Kingdom \n+443300885830\,\,93627963585# United Kingdom \n  \nDial by your location \n        +44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom \n        +44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom \n        +44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom \n        +44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom \n        +44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom \n        +44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom \n        +44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom \nMeeting ID: 936 2796 3585 \n 
URL:https://transfire-hub.org/event/deploying-ai-solutions-in-foundation-industries/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom
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