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Yvonne van der Meer
Netherlands
Maastricht University
University
Life Cycle Assessment, Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD), Sustainable chemical processes, Sustainability assessment
Topic 2 – Targeting secondary sources to enhance access to raw materials
We are looking to collaborate with academic and industrial partners developing innovative solutions for the efficient and sustainable use of raw materials in product design and manufacturing. Our expertise includes Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD), sustainable chemistry, resource-efficient processes, eco-design, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and circularity assessment. We are interested in contributing to the development, optimisation and demonstration of circular products and production processes that reduce raw material consumption, improve resource efficiency, and enhance sustainability across industrial value chains.
The Sustainability of Materials Research Group investigates the sustainability of materials over their entire life cycle. The mission of the team is to provide suitable methods, metrics, tools, and accurate sustainability assessments of materials to guide the transition from a fossil-based economy to a biobased economy and from a linear to a circular economy.
Research
Consistent and full sustainability assessments are needed to evaluate and enhance the sustainability performance of materials. It is important to address multiple sustainability issues at the same time over the full life cycle of a material, to avoid shifting (instead of improving) sustainability impacts. The multidisciplinary research team uses and advances environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), LCA-derived methodologies and other quantitative approaches to investigate the environmental, economic and social impact of materials. The applied LCA methodologies include attributional and consequential LCA, Life Cycle Costing, Social LCA, and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment.
The projects of the team focus on different parts of the materials value chain, from the resources and their supply chain, to the production of materials, different applications and end-of-life scenarios. The main areas of research are:
Materials made from renewable resources: biobased materials
Greener production routes for manufacturing of materials and chemical intermediates
Sustainable materials applications
Materials with improved end-of-life scenarios to prevent waste generation: circular materials
More info: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/research/aachen-maastricht-institute-biobased-materials/research/sustainability-chemicals-and
Research
Consistent and full sustainability assessments are needed to evaluate and enhance the sustainability performance of materials. It is important to address multiple sustainability issues at the same time over the full life cycle of a material, to avoid shifting (instead of improving) sustainability impacts. The multidisciplinary research team uses and advances environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), LCA-derived methodologies and other quantitative approaches to investigate the environmental, economic and social impact of materials. The applied LCA methodologies include attributional and consequential LCA, Life Cycle Costing, Social LCA, and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment.
The projects of the team focus on different parts of the materials value chain, from the resources and their supply chain, to the production of materials, different applications and end-of-life scenarios. The main areas of research are:
Materials made from renewable resources: biobased materials
Greener production routes for manufacturing of materials and chemical intermediates
Sustainable materials applications
Materials with improved end-of-life scenarios to prevent waste generation: circular materials
More info: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/research/aachen-maastricht-institute-biobased-materials/research/sustainability-chemicals-and