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Greenhouse gas footprints of palm oil production in Indonesia over space and time by Lam, Wan Yee, Kulak, Michal, Sim, Sarah, King, Henry, Huijbregts, Mark A.J., Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca

“…Palm oil, the most widely used vegetable oil, is one of the largest drivers of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from global land use and land cover change. Here,…”
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Wing Sails: Numerical Analysis of High-Performance Propulsion Systems for a Racing Yacht by Kawecki, Bartosz, Kulak, Michal, Lipian, Michal

“…With the increasing popularity of yachting sports and races comes the need to develop a more advanced and efficient propulsion device. Significant improvement…”
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Drivers of variability in greenhouse gas footprints of crop production by Lam, Wan Yee, Sim, Sarah, Kulak, Michal, van Zelm, Rosalie, Schipper, Aafke M., Huijbregts, Mark A.J.

“…Identifying drivers of farm-level greenhouse gas (GHG) footprints of crop production can reveal opportunities to improve farming practices and enable more…”
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Life cycle assessment needs predictive spatial modelling for biodiversity and ecosystem services by Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca, Sim, Sarah, Hamel, Perrine, Bryant, Benjamin, Noe, Ryan, Mueller, Carina, Rigarlsford, Giles, Kulak, Michal, Kowal, Virginia, Sharp, Richard, Clavreul, Julie, Price, Edward, Polasky, Stephen, Ruckelshaus, Mary, Daily, Gretchen

“…International corporations in an increasingly globalized economy exert a major influence on the planet’s land use and resources through their product design…”
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Experimental Investigation of the Cooperation of Wind Turbines by Wiklak, Piotr, Kulak, Michal, Lipian, Michal, Obidowski, Damian

“…The article discusses the wind tunnel experimental investigation of two turbines (the downstream unit placed fully in the wake of the upstream one) at various…”
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CO2 fertilization effect may balance climate change impacts on oil palm cultivation by Beringer, Tim, Müller, Christoph, Chatterton, Julia, Kulak, Michal, Schaphoff, Sibyll, Jans, Yvonne

“…Oil palm cultivation has become one of the world’s most important drivers of land use change in the tropics causing biodiversity loss and greenhouse gas…”
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Fast Track Integration of Computational Methods with Experiments in Small Wind Turbine Development by Lipian, Michal, Kulak, Michal, Stepien, Malgorzata

“…In general, standard aerodynamic design is divided into two paths—numerical analysis and empirical tests. It is crucial to efficiently combine both approaches…”
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First process-based simulations of climate change impacts on global tea production indicate large effects in the World's major producer countries by Beringer, Tim, Kulak, Michal, Müller, Christoph, Schaphoff, Sibyll, Jans, Yvonne

“…Modeling of climate change impacts have mainly been focused on a small number of annual staple crops that provide most of the world's calories. Crop models…”
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Tracking current and forecasting future land-use impacts of agricultural value chains. 67th Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment, 3rd of November 2017, Zurich, Switzerland by Kulak, Michal, Sim, Sarah, King, Henry, Lam, Wan Yee, Marquardt, Sandra, Huijbregts, Mark

“…The 67th Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), organised by partners of the European project RELIEF (RELIability of product Environmental…”
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Potential management interventions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from tea cultivation by Rigarlsford, Giles, de Silva, Jacquie, Tuwei, Gabriel, Redfern, Sally, Kulak, Michal, Miah, Jamal H., Sim, Sarah

“…Previous studies have confirmed the agricultural stage as an important contributor to total tea life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We therefore focus…”
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Numerical and experimental analysis of rotating wheel in contact with the ground by Kulak, Michal, Karczewski, Maciej, Lesniewicz, Pawel, Olasek, Krzysztof, Hoogterp, Bas, Spolaore, Guillaume, Józwik, Krzysztof

“…Purpose This paper aims to provide the results of investigations concerning an influence of the tyre with longitudinal grooves on the car body aerodynamics. It…”
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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with urban agriculture: A Life Cycle Assessment perspective by Kulak, Michal, Graves, Anil, Chatterton, Julia

“…► Community farms can help to reduce greenhouse gas burdens from food. ► Reductions highly depend on the design of the cropping pattern. ► LCA can be used…”
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“Fast Track” Analysis of Small Wind Turbine Blade Performance by Stępień, Małgorzata, Kulak, Michał, Jóźwik, Krzysztof

“…Small wind turbines (SWTs) can be significantly sensitive to variances in the blade geometry shape when their operation in relatively low ranges of Reynolds…”
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Structural Response of a Single-Stage Centrifugal Compressor to Fluid-Induced Excitations at Low-Flow Operating Condition: Experimental and Numerical Study by Kabalyk, Kirill, Jaeschke, Andrzej, Liśkiewicz, Grzegorz, Kulak, Michał, Szydłowski, Tomasz, Pietruszewski, Robert

“…The article describes an assessment of possible changes in constant fatigue life of a medium flow-coefficient centrifugal compressor impeller subject to…”
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Unstable Flow Structures Present at Different Rotational Velocities of the Centrifugal Compressor by Liśkiewicz, Grzegorz, Kabalyk, Kirill, Jaeschke, Andrzej, Grapow, Filip, Kulak, Michał, Stajuda, Mateusz, Kryłłowicz, Władysław

“…Unstable flow structures cause inevitable energy losses in all power energy systems, including turbomachines. In this study, a set of analyses was conducted…”
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Eco-efficiency improvement by using integrative design and life cycle assessment. The case study of alternative bread supply chains in France by Kulak, Michal, Nemecek, Thomas, Frossard, Emmanuel, Gaillard, Gérard

“…LCA studies reveal emission hotspots along the whole product value chain allowing the researcher to identify opportunities for improvements. Its combination…”
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Investigation of performance of small wind turbine blades with winglets by Kulak, Michal, Lipian, Michal, Zawadzki, Karol

“…Purpose This paper aims to discuss the results of the performance study of wind turbine blades equipped with winglets. An investigation focusses on small wind…”
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Life cycle assessment of bread from several alternative food networks in Europe by Kulak, Michal, Nemecek, Thomas, Frossard, Emmanuel, Chable, Véronique, Gaillard, Gérard

“…In this study, we used LCA to test the influence of practicing low-input farming, on-farm processing and direct distribution on the environmental impact of…”
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CO 2 fertilization effect may balance climate change impacts on oil palm cultivation by Beringer, Tim, Müller, Christoph, Chatterton, Julia, Kulak, Michal, Schaphoff, Sibyll, Jans, Yvonne

“…Abstract Oil palm cultivation has become one of the world’s most important drivers of land use change in the tropics causing biodiversity loss and greenhouse…”
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Estimating greenhouse gas emissions from direct land use change due to crop production in multiple countries by Lam, Wan Yee, Chatterton, Julia, Sim, Sarah, Kulak, Michal, Mendoza Beltran, Angelica, Huijbregts, Mark A.J.

“…Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from direct land use change (LUC) in GHG footprint studies of crops are often estimated using national land use change…”
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