Lynsey Melville

Director of the Centre for Low Carbon Research and Lead of the Bioenergy Research Group, Senior Researcher

School of Engineering and the Built Environment

Current activity:

Lynsey actively participates in regional and national debate surrounding the low carbon agenda, and is a member of a number of scientific forums, including The New Optimists. She has generated over £1.7 million in research income through EU, UK and commercial funded research. Lynsey is currently leading the Bioenergy research group, whose focus is on accelerating the adoption of environmentally sustainable and commercially viable energy from biomass. This includes supervision of both post-doctoral and PhD researchers.

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Area of expertise:

Low Carbon Technologies
Bioenergy
Bioremediation
Biorefining
Environmental Sustainability

Biography:

Lynsey Melville is currently professor of Environmental Engineering in the Centre for Resilient Environments. She leads the Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology research groups whose focus is on supporting and accelerating the development of a sustainable Bio economy. As a transdisciplinary researcher her works spans across a variety of areas including bio-resource mapping and management, biochemical conversion of biomass and bioremediation/ waste water treatment.

She has working with multinational companies such as Doosan Enpure she has expertise in process assessment, optimisation and market diversification from pilot-scale to full-scale. Lynsey is currently leading the Bioenergy research group, whose focus is on accelerating the adoption of environmentally sustainable and commercially viable energy from biomass.

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Publications

Rahman, K., Melville, L. (2016) An Assessment of Rice Straw as a Potential Feedstock for Anaerobic Digestion, Early Career Researcher Event, Birmingham, UK

Rahman, K., Melville, L. (2016) Understanding Bioenergy Production and Optimisation at the Nanoscale – A Review, Journal of Experimental Nanoscience

Farazi, F., Melville, L. (2016) WordNet Powered Faceted Semantic Search with Automatic Sense Disambiguation for Bioenergy Domain, IEEE Tenth International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC)

Paul, R., Sulu, M., Melville, L. (2016) Anaerobic Digestion of Micro and Macro Algae, Pre-treatment and Co-Digestion-Biomass — A Review for a Better Practice, International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, Volume Seven.

Melville, L. (2015) Sustainable Energy Provision, Sustainable Futures, Birmingham, UK

Melville, L. (2015) Capturing and representing knowledge from the EnAlgae project - Developing Decision Support Tools, Final EnAlgae Conference and Exhibition, Brussels, Belgium

Melville, L. (2015) BioenNW Final Conference - Developing Decision Support for Bioenergy Stakholders, BioenNWE – Final Conference, Brussels, Belgium

Rahman, K., Khoda, S., Melville, L. (2015) Role of nanoparticles on bioenergy research, Conference: Advances in Nanotechnology 2015

Saptoka, K., Raju, P., Chapman, C., Melville, L. (2015) Bioenergy Ontology for Automatic Pathway Generation

Saptoka, K., Byrne, W., Raju, P., Melville, L. (2015) Ontology-Based Pathways Generation for Biomass to Bioenergy Conversion, IEEE International Conference on eBusiness Engineering (ICEBE)

Melville, L. Weger, A. (2014) Anaerobic Digestion

Scott, J., Wright, D., Byrne, W., Melville, L. (2014) Progress towards a decision support tool for small scale novel energy from waste and bioenergy project development, Conference: Bioenergy 2014, Manchester, UK

Melville, L. (2013) Towards Sustainable Bioenergy, European Programme for Sustainable ICT in Academic Education EPSIAE, Birmingham, UK

Solanki, M., Chapman, C., Melville, L. (2012) Conformance to Standard –Accepted – ISWC 11th international the semantic web conference, Boston, US

Solanki, M., Chapman, C., Melville, L. (2012) Reactive processes - Accepted – ISWC 11th international the semantic web conference, Boston, US

Paul. R, Melville, L. (2012) Energy From Algae - A Biorefinery Concept. 2nd International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development 2012 (EESD2012), Feb 27-29, 2012 Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan.

Melville, L. (2010) Developments in Alternative Fuels - 4th Advanced Powertrain Control Symposium, Birmingham, UK, 2010.

Melville, L. (2010) Advances in Biofuels – Renewable Energy Workshop, Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Birmingham UK, 2010

Melville, L. (2010) Development of a decision support tool for an integrated algal bioenergy support system- International Symposium on Flexible Automation (ISFA) Tokyo, 2010.

Melville, L. (2009) Biogas for Heat Power and Transport-Future Vision (Bioenergy Special Interest Group -West Midlands, UK, 2009

Melville, L. (2008) Achieving a low carbon future – developments in environmental technologies, Climate change solutions NEC Birmingham UK April 2008

Melville, L. (2007) Developments in Water Treatment & Supply 2nd Conference of the Network on Potable Water Treatment and Supply presented paper on use of RSSCTs for prediction of pesticide removal from GAC. UK, 2007

Melville, L. (2007) 2nd National CIWEM Conference –Rapid Small Scale Column Testing (RSSCTs) UK, 2007

Kaur K., Campbell A., Melville L. and Williams C. (2007) Comparing the service life of field spent GAC using Rapid Small Scale Column Tests (RSSCTs). Developments in Water Treatment & Supply 2nd Conference of the Network on Potable Water Treatment and Supply, 3-4 July 2007, The Assembly Rooms, Bath UK.

Perry*, L., Essex. D., Geiss, P., Graham, N.J.G., Lambert, S., Spencer, C. (2005) Improving the performance of Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) via pre-regeneration acid treatment. Journal of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management. Vol 19. No.3 pp159-`166

Kaur K., Perry L., Hale C. & Pitt S., (2005) Use of Rapid Small Scale Column Tests (RSSCTs) For Investigating the Service Life of Field Spent GAC. CIWEM Third National Conference, Wakefield, Sept. 2005, Vol. 1

Perry L., Essex D., Giess P., Graham N., Kaur K., Lambert S. & Spencer C. (2004) Modifying Adsorption Characteristics of Field-spent GAC using Pre-Regeneration Acid Treatment. In Proceedings of the 2nd National CIWEM Conference, Sept., 2004 vol. 2, Wakefield, UK, p97.

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