Supergen Bioenergy Hub

Supergen生物能源中心

基本信息

批准号：
EP/J017302/1
负责人：
Elizabeth Thornley
金额：
$ 454.56万
依托单位：
University of Manchester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FJ017302%2F1
关键词：
Supergen Bioenergy Hub

项目摘要

Bioenergy provides a significant proportion of the UK's low carbon energy supply for heat, transport fuel and electricity. There is scope for bioenergy to provide much higher levels of low carbon energy in future, but this requires appropriate development of key enabling technologies and strategic management to make the best use of the valuable, but finite, biomass resource. It must also be acknowledged that there have been significant concerns raised about the long term sustainability of bioenergy systems, including the wider social and economic impacts of biomass production. This project will create a Supergen Bioenergy hub for the UK which will bring together industry, academia and other stakeholders to focus on the research and knowledge challenges associated with increasing the contribution of UK bioenergy to meet strategic environmental targets in a coherent, sustainable and cost-effective manner. It will do this by taking a "whole systems" approach to bioenergy, so that we focus on the benefits that new technologies can bring within the context of the whole production and utilisation chain. In order to ensure focused research with rapid dissemination and deployment this will be done in close collaboration with industrial partners and other stakeholders, including government agencies. The hub will also take an expressly interdisciplinary approach to bioenergy, ensuring that we address important issues, such as the impacts of land-use change not just as scientific quantification exercises, but taking due account of the social and economic impacts. The hub will carry out leading edge research to address the engineering challenges associated with bioenergy deployment, with a particular focus on enabling flexible energy vectors. Therefore we will carry out core research to address existing problems, for example increasing scientific understanding of biomass combustion to improve environmental emissions and developing torrefaction (heating the feedstock), which could improve the logistics (and therefore costs) of using biomass. However, we will also work on more strategic, long term options; using academic expertise to help industry resolve the engineering problems experienced to date with some advanced technologies like gasification and assessing the prospects for biomass-derived synthetic natural gas as a low carbon alternative to diminishing natural gas supplies and developing new technologies to produce more sustainable transport fuels from biomass. The project will progress many different bioenergy options for the UK, which have many different costs and benefits. Therefore we will particularly focus on evaluating the ecological, economic and social aspects of the bioenergy chains being developed. That will allow us to provide appropriate scientific evidence and information to government and other stakeholders to facilitate development of the most sustainable bioenergy systems for the UK.

生物能源提供了英国低碳能供应的大部分用于热量，运输燃料和电力。生物能源在将来提供了更高水平的低碳能量，但这需要适当开发关键的启用技术和战略管理，以充分利用有价值但有用的生物质资源。还必须承认，人们对生物能源系统的长期可持续性（包括生物质生产的更广泛的社会和经济影响）引起了重大关注。该项目将为英国创建一个超级生物能源枢纽，该项目将汇集行业，学术界和其他利益相关者，专注于与增加英国生物能源以相干，可持续性，可持续性和成本效益的方式达到战略环境目标的研究和知识挑战。它将通过采用“整体系统”的生物能源方法来实现这一目标，以便我们专注于新技术可以在整个生产和利用链中带来的好处。为了确保快速传播和部署的重点研究，这将与工业伙伴和其他利益相关者（包括政府机构）密切合作。该枢纽还将采用一种明确的跨学科方法来进行生物能源，以确保我们解决重要的问题，例如土地利用的影响不仅是科学量化练习，而且还应适当考虑社会和经济影响。该枢纽将进行领先的研究，以应对与生物能源部署相关的工程挑战，特别着眼于启用灵活的能量向量。因此，我们将进行核心研究以解决现有问题，例如增加对生物质燃烧的科学理解，以改善环境排放和发展摩托车（加热原料），从而可以改善使用生物量的物流（以及成本）。但是，我们还将致力于更具战略性的长期选择。利用学术专业知识来帮助行业解决迄今为止使用一些先进技术（例如气化）以及评估生物质衍生合成天然气的前景的工程问题，作为低碳替代品，可减少天然气供应并开发新技术，以生产来自生物量的更可持续的运输燃料。该项目将为英国提供许多不同的生物能源选择，这些选择具有许多不同的成本和收益。因此，我们将特别专注于评估开发生物能源链的生态，经济和社会方面。这将使我们能够向政府和其他利益相关者提供适当的科学证据和信息，以促进英国最可持续的生物能源系统的开发。