Paper, Ash and Resin: Valorisation of Foundation Industry Waste Streams

造纸、陶瓷和金属制造、乙醇生产和能源生产每年产生数百万吨的副产品废物（总计约1200万吨）。工业界一直在努力处理这些废物流（例如，在水泥中加入灰，使用蒸馏器和糖加工残余物作为动物饲料，或者在发电站燃烧的废纸），但这些材料的很大一部分仍然会被填埋。但如果我们可以用这些废物来制造更昂贵或更好的产品呢？更好地利用这些废物可以取代使用稀缺或昂贵的原始资源，减少我们的碳足迹，改善英国的环境。更有效地利用废物资源的最大障碍之一是成本。成本通常与将废物流转化为有用材料所需的技术有关。高昂的工艺和技术成本导致创新变革失败，并无法维持现有的环境破坏和高碳制造工艺。Sappi和Cambond开发了不同的方法来处理废物流，并以合理的价格将其转化为有价值的产品。生物复合材料中心在测量不同材料的环境和可持续性优势方面拥有专业知识，以确保可以选择最环保的方法。我们的项目汇集了英国的创新技术和专业知识，将其集中在一个强大的计划中，以推动新低碳材料技术的商业开发，循环废物流，并可能为英国的材料制造业提供重大发展。造纸厂废物，粉煤灰和树脂可以结合起来，为英国的建筑和陶瓷行业提供一系列材料。这些材料为开发和制造改进型、低碳、可持续产品提供了具有商业吸引力的机会：建筑用耐火板陶瓷型饰面装饰板和瓷砖陶瓷型材料，可制成多种产品我们将把环境问题转化为宝贵的商业机会，大幅减少英国制造业的碳足迹，并采用体现循环经济原则的材料技术该项目使用来自几个基础行业的废物，生产创新的制造平台，以提高英国的生产力和竞争力。利用多种废物流的创新将具有商业竞争力，并有助于应对重大挑战之一-清洁增长。

Making paper, manufacturing ceramics and metals, producing ethanol and generating energy produces millions of tonnes of by-products waste a year (some 12 Million Tonnes in total).Industry has worked hard to deal with these waste streams (e.g adding ash to cement, using distillers and sugar processing residues as animal feeds, or paper waste to burn in power stations) but a substantial portion of this material still goes to landfill.But what if we could use these wastes to make more expensive or better products?Better use of these wastes could replace the use of scarce or expensive virgin resources, reduce our carbon footprint and improve the environment of the UK.One of the biggest barriers to more effective use of waste resources is cost. The cost is often linked to the technology needed to transform waste streams into useful materials.High process and technology cost leads to a failure of innovative change and the maintenance of existing environmentally damaging and high carbon manufacturing processes.Sappi and Cambond have developed different approaches to dealing with waste streams and transforming them into valuable products at a sensible price. The Biocomposites Centre has expertise in measuring the environmental and sustainability advantages of different materials to ensure the most planet friendly approaches can be chosen.Our project brings together innovative UK technology and expertise to focus them in a robust plan to drive the commercial development of a new low carbon materials technology which up-cycles waste streams and could provide a significant development in materials manufacturing in the UK.Paper mill wastes, fly ash and resins can be combined to provide a range of materials for the construction and ceramics sectors in the UK. These materials offer commercially attractive opportunities to develop and manufacture _improved_, low carbon, sustainable, products:Fire resistant boards for constructionDecorative panels and tiles with ceramic-type finishesCeramic type materials which can be moulded into many types of productWe will turn environmental problems into valuable commercial opportunities producing large reductions in the carbon footprint of UK manufacturing and a materials technology which embodies circular economy principlesThis project uses waste from several foundation industries to produce an innovative manufacturing platform to enhance UK productivity and competitiveness. Innovation in the use of multiple waste streams will be commercially competitive and help meet one of the Grand Challenges -- Clean Growth.