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

英国工业每年产生4110万吨废物，其中食品和饮料制造业产生130万吨食物废物（DEFRA）。研究表明，减少食物浪费是应对气候变化的第四大最有效的解决方案。此外，为了实现英国政府的工业脱碳战略和净零目标，必须在2050年之前完全脱碳食品和饮料（F&B）和其他加工行业的排放。生物燃料进化沿着生物化学工程和合成生物学专家将努力探索开发一种创新的、分散的能源生产和废物管理系统，BEBlock。我们的创新将为英国的加工行业提供本地化的解决方案，以减少其温室气体排放，水消耗和对外部化石能源的依赖。BEBlock使用新型工程生物技术将生物残留物转化为生物燃料和生物能源，为企业，组织和社区提供分散的规模。微生物燃料电池或生物电化学系统也将被设计和集成，以处理BEBlock的污水，并创造进一步的增值产品，可以回收回系统。因此，否定了自然资源的耗尽和能源密集型生物质原料的使用。这一具有高度特征化的微生物和电活性细菌的生物化学和生物电化学概念将是同类项目中的第一个。该项目的成果将是一个实验性的概念验证，BEBlock，这将使生物燃料进化的团队能够在一个试验现场验证BEBlock的技术和进展，为英国的净零排放和工业脱碳战略做出贡献。

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.