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Issaka, Eliasu and Adams, Mabruk and Baffoe, Josephine and Danso-Boateng, Eric and Melville, Lynsey and Fazal, Adnan (2024) Covalent organic frameworks: a review of synthesis methods, properties and applications for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances removal. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. ISSN 1618-954X

Paul, Roshni and Melville, Lynsey and Bature, Aminu and Sulu, Michael and Suhartini, Sri (2024) Techno-economic feasibility study of macroalgae for anaerobic digestion. Bioresource Technology Reports, 28. p. 101984. ISSN 2589-014X

Suhartini, Sri and Pangestuti, Martasari Beti and Elviliana and Rohma, Novita Ainur and Junaidi, Mochammad Agus and Paul, Roshni and Nurika, Irnia and Rahmah, Nur Lailatul and Melville, Lynsey (2024) Valorisation of macroalgae for biofuels in Indonesia: an integrated biorefinery approach. Environmental Technology Reviews, 13 (1). pp. 269-304. ISSN 2162-2515

Rahman, Khondokar M. and Melville, Lynsey (2023) An Investigation into the Conversion of Non-Hazardous Medical Wastes into Biogas—A Case Study from the Health and Family Planning Sector in Bangladesh. Processes, 11 (5). p. 1494. ISSN 2227-9717

Paul, Roshni and Silkina, Alla and Melville, Lynsey and Suhartini, Sri and Sulu, Michael (2023) Optimisation of Ultrasound Pretreatment of Microalgal Biomass for Effective Biogas Production through Anaerobic Digestion Process. Energies, 16 (1). p. 553. ISSN 1996-1073

Suhartini, Sri and Rohma, Novita Ainur and Elviliana and Santoso, Imam and Paul, Roshni and Listiningrum, Prischa and Melville, Lynsey (2022) Food waste to bioenergy: Current status and role in future circular economies in Indonesia. Energy, Ecology and Environment. ISSN 2363-7692

Suhartini, Sri and Indah, Salsabila Harisma and Rahman, Farid Abdul and Rohma, Novita Ainur and Rahmah, Nur Lailatul and Nurika, Irnia and Hidayat, Nur and Melville, Lynsey (2022) Enhancing anaerobic digestion of wild seaweed Gracilaria verrucosa by co-digestion with tofu dregs and washing pre-treatment. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. ISSN 2190-6815

Suhartini, Sri and Rohma, Novita Ainur and Mardawati, Efri and Kasbawati and Hidayat, Nur and Melville, L. (2021) Biorefining of oil palm empty fruit bunches for bioethanol and xylitol production in Indonesia: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 154. p. 111817. ISSN 1364-0321

Suhartini, S and Nurika, I and Paul, Roshni and Melville, L. (2020) Estimation of Biogas Production and the Emission Savings from Anaerobic Digestion of Fruit-based Agro-industrial Waste and Agricultural crops residues. BioEnergy Research. ISSN 1939-1234

Suhartini, S and Sihaloho, R and Rahmah, N L and Nurika, I and Junaidi, M A and Paul, R. and Melville, L. (2020) Effect of pre-treatment on anaerobic biodegradability of Gracilaria verrucosa. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 475 (1). 012064. ISSN 1755-1315

Suhartini, S and Nurika, I and Rahmah, N L and Paul, Roshni and Melville, L. (2020) Potential of Gracilaria sp. as single-or co-digestion feedstock for biogas production. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 460 (1). 012032. ISSN 1755-1315

Rahman, K.M. and Melville, L. and Edwards, D.J. and Fulford, David and Thwala, WD (2019) Determination of the Potential Impact of Domestic Anaerobic Digester Systems: A Community Based Research Initiative in Rural Bangladesh. Processes, 7 (8). p. 512. ISSN 2227-9717

Rahman, K.M. and Edwards, D.J. and Melville, L. and El-Gohary, H. (2019) Implementation of Bioenergy Systems towards Achieving United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in Rural Bangladesh. Sustainability, 11 (14). p. 3814. ISSN 2071-1050

Stiles, William A.V. and Styles, David and Chapman, Stephen P. and Esteves, Sandra and Bywater, Angela and Melville, L. and Silkina, Alla and Lupatsch, Ingrid and Grunewald, Claudio Fuentes and Lovitt, Robert and Chaloner, Tom and Bull, Andy and Morris, Chris and Llewellyn, Carole A. (2018) Using microalgae in the circular economy to valorise anaerobic digestate: challenges and opportunities. Bioresource Technology. ISSN 0960-8524

Farazi, Mohammad Feroz and Chapman, C. and Raju, P. and Melville, L. (2017) Ontology-based faceted semantic search with automatic sense disambiguation for bioenergy domain. International Journal of Big Data Intelligence, 5 (1/2). ISSN 2053-1389

Rahman, K.M. and Melville, L. and Fulford, David and Imamul Huq, S M (2017) Green-house gas mitigation capacity of a small scale rural biogas plant calculations for Bangladesh through a general Life Cycle Assessment approach. Waste Management & Research, 35 (10). pp. 1023-1033. ISSN 0734-242X

Rahman, K.M. and Fulford, David and Melville, L. (2017) Evaluating the Potential of Rice Straw as a Co-digestion Feedstock for Biogas Production in Bangladesh. Journal of Advanced Catalysis Science & Technology, 4. pp. 8-14. ISSN 2408-9834/17

Suhartini, S. and Melville, L. and Amato, T. (2017) Pre-treatment of Thickened Activated Sludge (TWAS) for enhanced biogas production via the application of a novel radial horn sonication technology. Journal of Water Science and Technology, 75 (10). pp. 2179-2193. ISSN 0273-1223

Paul, R. and Melville, L. and Sulu, M. (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, 7 (9). pp. 646-650. ISSN 20100264

Rahman, K.M. and Melville, L. and Huq, S.M.I. and Khoda, S.K. (2016) Understanding bioenergy production and optimisation at the nanoscale - a review. Journal of Experimental Nanoscience, 11 (10). pp. 762-775. ISSN 17458080 (ISSN)

Sapkota, Krishna and Raju, Pathmeswaran and Chapman, Craig and Byrne, William and Melville, L. (2015) Bioenergy Ontology for Automatic Pathway Generation. International Journal of Knowledge Engineering-IACSIT, 1 (1). pp. 1-8. ISSN 23826185

Book Section

Rahman, K.M. and Melville, L. (2016) Anaerobic Digestion Systems. In: National Renewable Energy Expo. Energine, Institute of Energy, Dhaka University, pp. 99-102.

Farazi, Mohammad Feroz and Chapman, C. and Raju, P. and Melville, L. (2016) WordNet Powered Faceted Semantic Search With Automatic Sense Disambiguation For Bioenergy Domain. In: Proceedings of IEEE Tenth International Conference on Semantic Computing. IEEE. ISBN 978-1-5090-0661-8

Melville, L. and Weger, A. and Wiesgickl, S. and Franke, M. (2014) Anaerobic Digestion. In: Transformation of Biomass: Theory to Practice. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 31-59. ISBN 9781118693643 (ISBN); 9781119973270 (ISBN)

Conference or Workshop Item

Bature, Aminu and Akhtar, Jahangir and Melville, L. and Rahman, K.M. and Aulak, Poonam (2018) The Effects of Risk Management on Bioenergy Projects. In: ICREN 2018 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Renewable Energy, APRIL 25-27, 2018, BARCELONA.

Paul, R. and Suhartini, S. and Sulu, M. and Melville, L. (2017) Feasibility of seaweed and agricultural crop waste resiudes as co-digestion feedstock. In: 15th IWA World Conference on Anaerobic Digestion (AD-15), 17th-20th October 2017, Beijing, China.

Melville, L. and Raju, P. and Byrne, W. and Farazi, Mohammad Feroz and Rahman, K.M. (2017) Challenges of Mapping and Managing Bioresources for Energy in North West Europe. In: International Materials Research Conference (IMRC), August 2017, Mexico.

Melville, L. and Flynn, K. and Higson, A. and Raju, P. (2017) Exploring the potential of Algae to provide sustainable and commercially viable energy in North West Europe. Findings from the EnAlgae project. In: International Algal Biomass Organisation conference, October (2017), Utah, US.

Paul, R. and Suhartini, S. and Sulu, M. and Melville, L. (2017) Feasibility of cultivated S. latissimi as a novel co-digestion feedstock. In: BBSRC AD Net 3rd Early Career Research Conference, July, (2017), Birmingham.

Rahman, K.M. and Lloyd, C. and Leyland, Laura and Wall, R. and Singh, M. and Uddin, S. and Balliger, B. and Stevens, D. and Melville, L. (2017) Jute the sustainability composites: Future Fibre. In: RESCON 2015 conference, Birmingham City University.

Rahman, K.M. and Melville, L. (2017) Promoting bioenergy production in developing countries through understanding the socio cultural impacts on domestic internal air pollution and health. In: The AD Network (BBSRC NIBB) Early Career Researcher Event, July 2016, Birmingham.

Rahman, K.M. and Melville, L. (2016) An Assessment of Rice Straw as a Potential feedstock for Anaerobic Digestion. In: The AD Network (BBSRC NIBB) Early Career Researcher Event, July 2016, Birmingham.

Melville, L. (2015) Developing Decision Support for BioenNW, Bioenergy Networks and Biomass potential – Valorising European Biomass. In: International Conference, Sept 2015, Brussels.

Melville, L. (2015) The EnAlgae knowledge based decision support tool. In: EnAlgae Closeout Conference, Sept 2015, Brussels.

Rahman, K.M. and Melville, L. (2015) How bioenergy can empower rural communities in developing countries: What NWE can learn? In: RESCON 2015 conference, Birmingham City University.

Rahman, K.M. and Melville, L. and Khoda, S K (2015) Role of nanoparticles on bioenergy research. In: Advances in Nanotechnology, 9th -10th June 2015, Birmingham City University.

Melville, L. (2015) Sustainable Energy Provision. In: Sustainable Futures Forum, December 2015, Birmingham, UK.

Paul, R. and Melville, L. and Sulu, S. (2014) Anaerobic Digestion of Algae biomass: Comparative study of the influence of different pre-treatment methods on microalgae. In: International Conference on Biomass, May 5-7th 2014, Florence Italy.

Melville, L. (2014) Capturing and Representing Knowledge in decision support tools. In: EnAlgae Pilot Symposium, 2014, Kortjik, Belgium.

Byrne, W. and Melville, L. and Scott, J. and Wright, D. (2014) An Ontology based model of the bioenergy project development domain. In: RCUK International Bioenergy Conference, 2014.

Sapkota, K. and Byrne, W. and Raju, P. and Chapman, C. and Melville, L. and Wright, D. and Scott, J. (2014) Ontology-based pathways generation for biomass to bioenergy conversion. In: 11th IEEE International Conference on E-Business Engineering, 5 November 2014 through 7 November 2014;, Guangzhou; China.

James, T. and Melville, L. (2014) Opportunities for integration of bioremediation and biomass processes in the brewing industry. In: RCUK International Bioenergy Conference, 2014.

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

Melville, L. (2013) Towards Sustainable Bioenergy, European Programme for Sustainable ICT. In: Academic Education (EPSIAE) Annual Conference, 2013, Birmingham, UK.

Solanki, M. and Chapman, C. and Melville, L. (2012) Conformance to Standards (Decision Support in EnAlgae Project). In: ISWC 11th international the semantic web conference, Boston, US.

Paul, R. and Melville, L. (2012) Energy from Algae - A Biorefinery Concept. In: 2nd International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development 2012.

Melville, L. (2012) Keynote - Developing a low carbon research agenda. In: Faculty Research Conference, 2012, BCU.

Solanki, M. and Chapman, C. and Melville, L. (2012) Reactive processes (Decision Support in EnAlgae Project). In: ISWC 11th international the semantic web conference, Boston, US.

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

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

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

Book

Yousef, Abu and Melville, L. (2023) Biogas to Biomethane: Engineering, Production, Sustainability. Applied Biotechnology Reviews . Elsevier. ISBN 9780443184796

Thesis

Paul, R. (2018) Anaerobic Digestion of Saccharina Latissima. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Other

Rahman, K.M. and Melville, L. (2017) Desk based evaluation of biomass potential for Anaerobic (AD) - Commercial food waste, pruning from horticultural waste and municipal green waste, A Report for the Brighton & Hove Energy Services Co-operative Limited (BHESCo). BHESCo.