Doing the hard yards: Tackling the hard to abate sectors for net zero | Martin Wood and Adrian La Porta

This means modifications can be made to the design to improve it, reducing the likelihood of post-completion changes and the associated material usage..

food, drink, paper, fabric and agriculture.There is a huge effort ongoing to find replacement sources for aircraft fuel (SAF).

A small amount of this could be diverted to the much more commercially valuable (margin-wise) supply of high purity solvents..Waste recycling within plants is something many manufacturers are looking to increase.This does not come without quality and technical challenges.

Local recycling, which is directly discouraged by some regulations, can increase batch-to-batch cross contamination.Recycling can concentrate impurities, an issue that requires monitoring and can drive the need for further processing.

The technical issues are primarily around ensuring solvent waste is neither mixed with other solvents nor with other water-based waste streams.

In fact, the segregation of waste streams in manufacturing is a very significant first step as this opens the possibility of multiple approaches to extraction, recycling and treatment..The Roadmap goes beyond MMC and DfMA, looking at a holistic approach to delivering differently, not just in terms of platform construction and the kit-of-parts, but also the processes that come with it..

The broader impact of TIP 2021.The Roadmap to 2030 discusses the wider implications of the change.

It talks about disaggregated supply chains, and therefore how we might engage SMEs, or how we might lower the barrier to entry.It talks about the strong link between digital and physical, in that, once you have these components, it unlocks configurators and the potential for a digital marketplace.