The Imperial Life Cycle Network’s Journal Club brings together Imperial researchers (staff and students) working with, and/or interested in, life cycle approaches to discuss relevant topics, facilitate knowledge sharing, network and build collaborations. The Journal Club is open to all members of the Imperial community. To register please fill out the MS Form. You will then receive further information, including the link for the online meeting, shortly before the date of the Journal Club (all events are currently virtual). Upcoming Journal Club meetings are listed below.
PLEASE NOTE ATTENDANCE TO THE JOURNAL CLUB IS LIMITED TO 20 ATTEDEE AND WILL BE ALLOCATED ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS
Tuesday 14th May 2024, 12.30-13.30 (BST) Dr Evangelos Kallitsis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London
This talk explores the carbon emissions arising from the battery value chain globally, following a modular life cycle assessment approach to quantify the impact of producing key battery materials and battery cells. The findings reveal significant variabilities upstream of the battery value chain depending on the type and source of battery materials such as graphite, nickel, cobalt and lithium. Their contribution to the cradle-to-gate carbon footprint of a battery is shown to vary by a factor of four. The gate-to-gate carbon emissions of battery manufacturing are analysed across 65 of the world’s most dominant manufacturing locations, with leading western-world battery manufacturing locations in the US and Europe being found to have comparable carbon emissions to Chinese rivals. Such resolution on material and energy contributions to the carbon footprint of batteries is essential to inform policy- and decision-making to minimise the carbon emissions of the battery value chain. The associated publication can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652624011739
Dr. Evangelos Kallitsis is a Research Associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London, with interests in system-scale sustainability analysis. He holds an MSc in Process Engineering and a PhD in Environmental Engineering. Currently, he works under the Faraday Institution ReLiB project, focusing on the development of economically viable and environmentally beneficial battery recycling processes.