IUCRC Planning Grant University of Colorado Boulder: Center for Decarbonizing Chemical Manufacturing Using Sustainable Electrification (DC-MUSE)

IUCRC 规划拨款科罗拉多大学博尔德分校：利用可持续电气化实现化学制造脱碳中心 (DC-MUSE)

• 批准号: 2231617
• 负责人: Wilson Smith
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-02-01 至 2024-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2231617&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUCRC; Planning; Grant; University; Colorado

Electrifying and decarbonizing chemical manufacturing could improve global environmental health and support the economic security and prosperity of the US chemical industry. This industry currently impacts 25% (~$5T) of the US GDP and 4.4 million American jobs while producing 14% of all the world’s chemicals used in 96% of all manufactured goods (lifesaving drugs, personal care products, agricultural fertilizers and pesticides, textiles, etc.). Global trends and social pressures to curb climate change are a looming threat to the US chemical industry because current US manufacturing practices are not compliant with international CO2 emission policies and impending carbon taxing, trading, pricing, and penalties. For example, Europe requires a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of 95% of 1990 levels by 2050, and China has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2060. Such policies place 12% of all US exports (~$220B) in jeopardy if the US chemical industry is not timely decarbonized, underpinning the importance of the proposed IUCRC. Diversification into renewable electricity sources is critical to ensure US leadership in climate change action in future chemical manufacturing. The proposed Center for Decarbonizing Chemical Manufacturing Using Sustainable Electrification (DC-MUSE) could enable this industry transformation by providing foundational cross-industry tools for the deployment of electrochemical and plasma processes powered either by on-site clean energy resources (e.g., renewables or hydrogen) and/or by electricity supply from the decarbonized power grid, and a trained workforce to implement them. This planning grant supports investigation of a new IUCRC (DC-MUSE) comprised of two sites - New York University (NYU) as the lead site and University of Colorado at Boulder (CUBoulder) as a partner site - that have complementary research strengths. CUBoulder brings unique capabilities in the use of cutting-edge tools for electrochemical systems modeling, which is crucial for process/plant design and grid integration. The sites will work collaboratively to develop technology foundations for scalable electrified chemical manufacturing systems that can enable new chemical transformations and help to decarbonize the chemical industry. Through this research, new knowledge and technologies will fill critical scientific and industrial gaps in (1)the pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals sectors, whose primary need is the development of stable and flexible electrochemical reactors that can be leveraged to produce high-value chemical compounds commonly produced on medium-to-low scales and (2) the chemical commodities sector whose primary need is the development of scalable reactor concepts and prototypes to produce large-scale petrochemical products (e.g., light olefins and their derivatives) and their integration with on-site power systems and the electricity grid. Based on these goals, DC-MUSE has proposed an initial portfolio of pre-competitive projects to support these industry needs: Thrust 1. (NYU-Lead) Electrocatalytic Materials; Thrust 2. (NYU-Lead) Electrochemical Reactor Design and Reaction Optimization; Thrust 3. (CUBoulder-Lead) Electrochemical Systems Modeling and Grid Integration. This grant will support customer discovery and planning activities, including an industry workshop, that will enable further refinement of the overall DC-MUSE research agenda as well as the specific initial set of projects for a potential Phase I IUCRC.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

振动和脱碳化学制造可以使环境健康和美国化学工业的经济安全和繁荣影响。全部何处是何处，何处，在所有制造商品中使用的全世界化学品在全世界的化学物质中使用（救生药物，个人护理产品，农业肥料和农药）。等等。）全球趋势和遏制气候的压力是一个迫在眉睫的行业，因为当前的美国制造业惯例不是国际二氧化碳排放政策和即将来临的碳税，交易和罚款。到2050年，1990年水平的95％的气体排放量，到2060年中国已承诺成为中性的碳中性。如果主题行业不是及时脱碳的IUCRC，此类政策将在危险中占所有出口的12％（〜220B）。可再生电源的多样化对于确保我们在未来化学制造中的气候变化行动中的领导地位至关重要。和/或通过电力电力电网电网，他的计划赠款支持对两个网站组成的新IUCRC（DC -Muse）的调查-New York University（NYU），作为Boulder（Cobauder）的主要地点（Cobauder）作为A合作伙伴网站。在（1）中，药物和特种化学品部门的主要需求是稳定且柔性的Eloctration s的发展，可以利用这些稳定和柔性的化学物质，以产生通常在中低尺度上产生的高价值化学化合物，并且（2）化学共同点其主要需求是开发可扩展的概念和原型，以产生尺度的石化产品（例如GHT烯烃及其衍生物），以及它们与现场动力系统和基于这些目标的集成。 Anitial投资组合;整体DC-Muse研究议程以及潜在阶段IUCRC的特定初始项目的完善。该奖项反映了NSF值得使用Toundation IT和更广泛影响的评论标准的NSF的支持。