Life cycle engineering of production, use and recovery of self-chilling beverage cans.The chill-on-demand system is a new technology to provide rapid cooling on demand. This paper considers its application to chilling a canned beverage, i.e. to cool it to the desired temperature at the point of consumption. This technology could have the potential to disrupt the beverage market: for instance, it might be possible to reduce or even eliminate chilled storage with a consequent revolution in the whole supply chain of beverages. Thus the chill-on-demand system could possibly make a significant contribution to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), particularly if it displaces inefficient and poorly maintained refrigerated beverage storage cabinets or dispensers. These are common in low-income countries, frequently utilized in middle-income countries and encountered under some circumstances even in wealthy countries (Calm, 2002). This work was undertaken to explore these possibilities