Carbon-neutral pathways of recycling marine plastic waste

回收海洋塑料废物的碳中和途径

• 批准号: EP/X039617/1
• 负责人: Nan Zhang
• 金额: $ 14.14万
• 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: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX039617%2F1
• 关键词: Carbon; neutral; pathways; recycling; marine

Plastic pollution in the ocean causes severe damage to marine life and raises growing global environmental concerns. The harm to marine life and pollution to the ecosystem is devastating our oceans and is causing negative connections to human health. According to EU Legislation Research, an estimated 9 to 23 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans every year, and the associated cost is between 485 million Euro and 1,259 million Euro. The recent Covid-19 pandemic has led to a significant increase in demand for single-use plastic, aggravating the long-lasting marine waste problem with an estimated 1.56 billion face masks have entered oceans in 2020 and even more in 2021. This project aims to develop sustainable, scalable, and profitable waste management processes for marine plastics. The automated plastic waste management and product innovation processes aim for environmental sustainability. Extensive training and knowledge exchange activities will be carried out among the world-leading scientist group through a total of 160person-months of structured staff exchanges between 15 research institutes.The scientists in this group share the common objective to develop the CUPOLA processes for marine plastic waste recycling. Thermal and thermochemical conversion technologies will be applied to produce high-value marketable products. Full process modelling, techno-economic and life cycle analysis will be carried out to provide vital information about the feasibility of the novel process.CUPOLA will create a multi-disciplinary consortium consisting of process engineers, chemists, environmental scientists, and process modellers, and develop the innovative and economic waste-to-product process, closing the gap in the circular economy. It will produce multiple avenues for career development, cross-sectorial experience, and academic training in a multi-cultural, interdisciplinary and intersectoral environment, and lead to achieving SDGs 3, 12 and 14.

海洋中的塑料污染会严重破坏海洋生物，并引起日益增长的全球环境问题。对海洋生物和对生态系统污染的危害正在毁灭我们的海洋，并引起与人类健康的负面联系。根据欧盟立法研究，估计每年有9至2300万吨塑料进入海洋，相关成本在4.85亿欧元和12.59亿欧元之间。最近的COVID-19大流行导致对一次性塑料的需求大幅增加，加剧了持久的海洋废物问题，估计有15.6亿个面具在2020年进入海洋，甚至在2021年进一步进入海洋。该项目的目的是旨在为海洋塑料开发可持续，可扩展和有利可图的废物管理过程。自动化的塑料废物管理和产品创新过程旨在使环境可持续性。全球领先的科学家小组中将通过160个年度的15个研究机构之间的结构化员工交流。废物回收。热化学转换技术将应用于生产可销售的高价值产品。将进行完整的流程建模，技术经济和生命周期分析，以提供有关新过程可行性的重要信息。Cupola将创建一个由过程工程师，化学家，环境科学家和过程模块以及过程建模者以及过程建模的多学科财团以及发展创新和经济废物到产品的过程，缩小循环经济的差距。它将在多元文化，跨学科和部门环境中为职业发展，跨部门经验以及学术培训提供多种途径，并导致实现可持续发展目标3、12和14。