Qualifications
- PhD / DPhil (University of Leeds)
Summary
Ben is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in renewable energy and carbon removal at the Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull (UK).
He holds a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Leeds and has held prestigious research appointments in the United Kingdom and the United States. He is a former member of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, University of Pennsylvania (U.S.).
His work seeks to understand the dynamics and quantification of environmental emissions and energy needs of technological systems. His research also aims to anticipate the impact of new technologies and their infrastructure, and to develop practical modelling strategies for avoiding negative impacts, as well as the societal consequences of using such technologies on local and global communities. Research interests include geospatial integration strategies for carbon dioxide removal technologies coupled with renewable energy, sustainable fuels as well as low carbon mine remediation using waste carbon and geothermal energy supply from mine wastewater. His methods to accomplish this work include but are not limited to Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
He currently leads and contributes to teaching on the institutes Renewable Energy MSc programme the following modules:
•Low Carbon Energy Solutions (Module leader)
•Principles of Renewable Energy - Biomass and Bioenergy
•Research Issues in Environmental Management and Renewable Energy (Module leader)
He is a member of the Institute for Engineering and Technology and the British Computer Society.
Journal Article
Cleaning up metal contamination after decades of energy production and manufacturing: reviewing the value in use of biochars for a sustainable future
Priyanka, Wood, I., Al-Gailani, A., Kolosz, B. W., Cheah, K. W., Vashisht, D., Mehta, S., & Taylor, M. J. (2024). Cleaning up metal contamination after decades of energy production and manufacturing: reviewing the value in use of biochars for a sustainable future. Sustainability, 16(20), Article 8838. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16208838
Scalable mesoporous biochars from bagasse waste for Cu (II) removal: Process optimisation, kinetics and techno-economic analysis
Bongosia, J., Al-Gailani, A., Kolosz, B. W., Loy Chun Minh, A., Sow Mun Lock, S., Cheah, K. W., & Taylor, M. J. (2024). Scalable mesoporous biochars from bagasse waste for Cu (II) removal: Process optimisation, kinetics and techno-economic analysis. Journal of environmental management, 370, Article 122558. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122558
Green pathways for biomass transformation: A holistic evaluation of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) through life cycle and techno-economic assessment
Yiin, C. L., Lai, Z. Y., Chin, B. L. F., Lock, S. S. M., Cheah, K. W., Taylor, M. J., Al-Gailani, A., Kolosz, B. W., & Chan, Y. H. (2024). Green pathways for biomass transformation: A holistic evaluation of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) through life cycle and techno-economic assessment. Journal of cleaner production, 470, Article 143248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.143248
Specialty grand challenge: renaming our section to "Carbon Dioxide Removal"
Renforth, P., Bellamy, R., Beerling, D., Boettcher, M., Bonalumi, D., Brandão, M., Fridahl, M., Fuss, S., Hansson, A., Heyward, C., Kolosz, B., Lamers, P., McLaren, D., Pomi, R., Sanchez, D. L., Shayegh, S., Sick, V., Van der Spek, M., Vishal, V., & Wilcox, J. (2023). Specialty grand challenge: renaming our section to “Carbon Dioxide Removal”. Frontiers in Climate, 5, Article 1279109. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2023.1279109
A stakeholders' participatory approach to multi-criteria assessment of sustainable aviation fuels production pathways
Ahmad, S., Ouenniche, J., Kolosz, B. W., Greening, P., Andresen, J. M., Maroto-Valer, M. M., & Xu, B. (2021). A stakeholders’ participatory approach to multi-criteria assessment of sustainable aviation fuels production pathways. International journal of production economics, 238, Article 108156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108156