RECTIFI - Reducing Embedded Carbon through Transformation In Foundation Industries

英国每年生产约1100万吨废钢。其中约260万吨用于国内生产高性能钢铁产品，而其余的则大量出口，其中大部分用于低性能应用。然而，在国际上交易的标准等级的再生钢不符合英国优质钢铁制造商所要求的纯度或使用价值标准，因为他们开始通过提高废料添加率来降低产品的碳含量。当以最大产能运行时，目前英国钢铁生产设施可在国内使用多达600万吨的回收钢。该项目将为英国境内的多阶段供应链设计增值产品，在经济萧条地区提供经济和就业收益，同时使生产过程脱碳。水泥制造也提供了一个重要的机会，可以提高回收材料的利用率，减少二氧化碳排放和嵌入碳，并使材料供应链增值。通过使用从钢铁粉碎残渣中提取的高矿物质含量的替代原材料，除了与成本、供应链稳健性和减少垃圾填埋材料有关的其他好处外，还可以实现这些目标。该项目的其他积极影响将在英国面临政治挑战的关键领域产生，包括：净零碳和废物、英国的升级、清洁空气、基金会部门的增长、优质产品、英国脱欧和COVID-19后的供应链稳定性、国际材料监管和税收。与目前每年填埋高达300KT的材料和出口低价值黑色金属产品的商业规范相比，增值应用中材料使用的在岸也带来了好处。这些好处将在项目范围内获得，并通过将成果传播给英国的其他参与者来获得。脱碳是联盟成员的一个关键目标，通过他们明确的净零承诺，已经取得了进展。该项目使合作伙伴能够通过工业共生实现逐步改变的脱碳。与在知识产权保护的内部单个公司开发活动上的传统支出相比，可以更快、更大规模地取得进展。这个项目的高调将有助于改变公众对英国钢铁、回收和水泥行业的看法，通过展示这些行业对改善环境的承诺。站在这些行业创新前沿的机会，将吸引更多元化的新一代未来领导者。

The UK produces around 11MT of scrap steel per annum. Around 2.6MT of this is used domestically to make higher performance steel products, whilst the remainder is exported in bulk, much of it for use in lower performance applications. However, the standard grades of recycled steel that are traded internationally do not meet the purity or value in use criteria required by premium UK steel makers as they start to decarbonise their products by increasing scrap addition rates. When operating at maximum capacity, there is scope for up to 6MT of recycled steel to be used domestically by current UK steel production facilities. This project will engineer value added products for a multistage supply chain within the UK, providing economic and employment gains in depressed areas whilst simultaneously decarbonising the production process.Cement manufacture also offers a significant opportunity to increase the utilisation of recycled materials, decrease CO2 emissions and embedded carbon, and to valorise the material supply chain. By using high mineral content alternative raw materials, derived from steel shredding residue, these can be realised in addition to other benefits relating to cost, supply chain robustness, and reduction of landfill material.Other positive impacts of the project will be delivered in key areas of political challenge for the UK, including: net-zero carbon and waste, levelling up the UK, clean air, growth in foundation sectors, quality products, supply chain stability post Brexit and COVID-19, international materials regulation and taxation. Benefits also stem from onshoring of material usage in value-added applications, compared to current business norms of landfilling up to 300KT of material per year and exporting lower value ferrous products. These benefits will be gained both at scale within the project, and through dissemination of outcomes to other players in the UK.Decarbonisation is a key objective for consortium members, with progress already made via their clear net zero commitments. This project enables the partners to deliver step-change decarbonisation through industrial symbiosis. Progress can be achieved more quickly and at greater scale when compared to conventional spending on IP-protected in-house single company development activities.The high profile of this project will help to transform the public perception of the steel, recycling, and cement industries in the UK, through demonstrating the commitment of these sectors to improving the environment. The opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation in these industries, will attract a new, more diverse generation of future leaders.