Dr Phil Longhurst
Senior Lecturer
Location: Building 40, Cranfield campus
E: p.j.longhurst@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 754953
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
Dr Phil Longhurst is research active across the areas of waste management and resource management. He is a network collaborator on the SUSTAIN Network between UK academic,Tonji University in Shanghai, China and ARUP [UK] on the development of Dongtan sustainable city. He is principal researcher on contracts with Waste Recycling Group and Boeing, and co-investigator on Grantscape-funded research into the mechanical-biological treatment (MBT) of solid waste is highlighting the policy and technological challenges of delivering this set of technologies to the market, with the associated production of solid recovered fuel (SRF). Cranfield’s Centre for Energy and Resource Management have become leading contributors to the field of bioaerosol research and the risk assessment of wastes, including animal carcasses (Defra) and anaerobic digestion residues (WRAP).
Clients
- Anglian Water
- Association for London Government
- Biffa Waste Management
- Boeing
- British Sugar
- Defence Evaluation Research Agency
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (England)
- Department for Trade and Industry (England))
- East of England Development Agency
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Environment Agency of England and Wales
- European Union
- Government Office for London
- Grantscape (Shanks First, EB Nationwide Ltd.)
- Greater London Authority
- IMP-Net
- Lafarge
- London Remade
- MJ Carter Associates
- Northumbrian Water
- Royal Society for Nature Conservation
- Severn Trent Water
- Shanks Waste Services Ltd.
- South West Water
- Thames Waste Management
- Thames Water
- UK Water Industry Research
- United Utilities
- Waste Recycling Group
- Waste Resources Action Programme (UK)
- Yorkshire Water.
Background
Dr Phil Longhurst is Deputy Head of the Centre for Energy and Resource Management and a Senior Lecturer in Waste Strategy. The Centre has an international portfolio of research, postgraduate training and consultancy in waste management and resource efficiency. Having obtained his PhD in Innovation and Technology Assessment from Cranfield University, Phil completed a series of studies to assess the amenity impact of landfill and waste management before developing analyses of material flow and mass balance for a series of waste streams and technology options.
His professional interests include resource flow of materials, mass balance and resource trading, technology assessment, amenity impact and odour measurement. His expertise covers the management of wastes as resources and the analysis of spatial distribution of materials and processing potential. Phil is an editor for the Journal - 'Waste Management Research' and has prepared evidence and acted as expert witness for planning enquiries on the amenity impact of waste management processes.
He has international research collaborations with the Universities of ENS des Mines, Saint Etienne, Tonji University in China and and Kitakyushu (Japan).
