BEBlock: A carbon recycling, decentralised energy generation and waste-management system.

BEBlock：碳回收、分散能源生成和废物管理系统。

• 批准号: 10072997
• 金额: $ 6.37万
• 依托单位: BIOFUEL EVOLUTION LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10072997
• 关键词: BEBlock; carbon; recycling; decentralised; energy

Industry in the UK is responsible for the production of 41.1 million tonnes of waste every year, of which food and beverage manufacturing produces 1.3 million tonnes of food waste (DEFRA). Research has demonstrated that reducing levels of food waste is the fourth most effective solution in fighting climate change (ReFED). Additionally, in order to meet the UKGov's Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy and Net-Zero goals it is essential to fully decarbonise the emissions from the Food & Beverage (F&B) and other process industries by 2050\.Biofuel Evolution along with biochemical engineering and synthetic biology experts will work to explore the development an innovative, decentralised energy generation and waste management system, BEBlock.Our innovation will provide process industries in the UK with a localised solution to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption and their reliance on external fossil-derived energy sources.BEBlock uses novel engineering biology techniques to convert biogenic residues into biofuels and bioenergy for businesses, organisations, and communities on a decentralised scale. A Microbial Fuel Cell or Bio-electrochemical System will also be designed and integrated to treat BEBlock's effluent and create further value-added products that can be recycled back into the system. Thus, negating the depletion of natural resources and use of energy intensive biomass feedstock. This biochemical and bio-electrochemical concept with highly characterised microbes and electroactive bacteria will be a first of its kind.The outcome of this project will be an experimental proof of concept, BEBlock, that will enable the team from Biofuel Evolution to validate the technology and progress towards demonstrating BEBlock at a trial site contributing towards the UK's net-zero and Industrial Decarbonisation strategies.

英国工业每年产生4110万吨垃圾，其中食品和饮料制造业产生130万吨食物垃圾(DEFRA)。研究表明，减少食物浪费是应对气候变化(REED)的第四个最有效的解决方案。此外，为了实现英国政府的工业脱碳战略和净零排放目标，到2050年完全脱碳食品和饮料(F&B)和其他流程工业的排放是至关重要的。生物燃料进化与生化工程和合成生物学专家将努力探索开发一个创新的、分散的能源产生和废物管理系统BEBlock。我们的创新将为英国的流程工业提供本地化的解决方案，以减少温室气体排放、水消耗和对外部化石衍生能源的依赖。BEBlock使用新的工程生物技术将生物残留物以分散的规模转化为生物燃料和生物能源，供企业、组织和社区使用。还将设计和集成微生物燃料电池或生物电化学系统，以处理BEBlock的废水，并创造更多可以回收到系统中的增值产品。因此，消除了自然资源的枯竭和对能源密集型生物质原料的使用。这一具有高度特征的微生物和电活性细菌的生化和生物电化学概念将是此类概念中的第一个。该项目的结果将是概念的实验证明，BEBlock将使来自生物燃料进化的团队能够在一个试验点验证BEBlock的技术和进展，为英国的净零和工业脱碳战略做出贡献。