Minimising whole life carbon emissions in a multi-site utility

最大限度地减少多站点公用事业的整个生命周期碳排放

• 批准号: 2603737
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2603737
• 关键词: Minimising; whole; life; carbon; emissions

The overarching aim of the project is to develop a methodology for measuring and reporting all GHG emissions from operations, capital projects and the supply chain which is (or can be) embedded within NWL's corporate systems/processes. The project needs to consider and map out the complexity of water infrastructure, including investments cycles and resilient infrastructure systems, using whole systems thinking and therefore it covers a breadth of academic topics, including civil engineering, process engineering and environmental economics. The planned outputs of the PhD are: * A whole life model for operational and embodied emissions which meets/exceeds current standards IS014064/PAS2080 etc. * Improved/validated emissions factors for process emissions from NWL sites, based on new measurements or academic information. * Develop risk matrix for capital programme and the resilient infrastructure systems * Determine emissions factors for operational consumables (such as chemicals) which better represent unique sources/suppliers based on new commercial/academic information. * Improved/validated emissions factors for embodied carbon attributable to NWL's capital programme. * At least 2 research papers in high impact journals e.g. Industrial Ecology, Water Resources or Science of the Total Environment * Data collection and measurement systems to allow short interval control of operational emissions Ultimately NWL wishes to incorporate this whole life model into its decision-making processes in order to ensure resilient operations and long-term planning by correctly considering the climate change mitigation and adaptation impacts of its operations and investments and this PhD study will support this ambition.

该项目的总体目的是开发一种方法，用于测量和报告运营，资本项目和供应链中的所有温室气体排放，该排放链（或可以）嵌入NWL的公司系统/流程中。该项目需要使用整个系统思考，需要考虑并绘制水基础设施的复杂性，包括投资周期和弹性基础设施系统，因此涵盖了包括土木工程，工程工程和环境经济学在内的学术主题的广度。博士学位的计划成果是： *一个符合/超过当前标准的运营和具体排放的整个寿命模型，它根据新的测量或学术信息，改进/验证了NWL站点的工艺排放的排放因素。 *开发资本计划和弹性基础设施系统的风险矩阵 *确定运营消耗品（例如化学物质）的排放因素，这些因素更好地代表基于新的商业/学术信息的独特来源/供应商。 *改进/验证的排放因素，用于归因于NWL资本计划的体现碳。 *至少有2份高影响期刊的研究论文，例如整个环境的工业生态，水资源或科学 *数据收集和测量系统，以允许对运营排放的短期控制NWL最终希望将该整个终生模型纳入其决策过程中，以确保弹性的运营和长期计划，通过正确地考虑降低气候变化和适应其操作和投资的影响，并将这项抗议性的研究对此表示支持。