Developing a Battery Impact Calculator ‘MineBIT’ to deeply decarbonise battery products required for low carbon economies.

开发电池影响计算器“MineBIT”，以深度实现低碳经济所需的电池产品脱碳。

• 批准号: 93105
• 金额: $ 39.38万
• 依托单位: MINVIRO LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=93105
• 关键词: Developing; Battery; Impact; Calculator; MineBIT

The transition to a low-carbon economy is well underway and accelerating. However, low-emission energy and transportation systems, such as Electric Vehicles (EVs) or solar panels, are more mineral-intensive compared to fossil fuel equivalents. As such, mineral extraction is projected to rise by 965% for lithium, 585% for cobalt, 383% for graphite and 241% for indium by 2050 \[World Bank, 2019\] increasing associated environmental stresses.To deeply decarbonise supply-chains, downstream users of minerals (such as OEMs assembling EVs), need to be able to understand the environmental performance of their supply chains to ensure the technologies they build are not offset by poor environmental performance at mine-sites. To build sustainable, low-impact products, they also need to optimise manufacturing processes, chemical selection and build using circular economy principles (enabling high-grade recycling when products reach end-of-life) whilst still producing premier, competitive battery products.Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provides a method to systematically measure impacts of supply chains and dynamically redesign battery compositions (aka low impact _and_ high-performing chemicals) whilst responding to shifts in commodity markets to reduce the carbon footprint of projects. Yet LCA requires excellent data to accurately quantify different impacts for raw material extraction, processing and refining at a mine-site by mine-site level. However, datasets built by the mining community to feed into LCA are often meagre/non-existent undermining their integrity.**Minviro Ltd** is a UK SME pioneering world-leading LCA tools to enable the mineral value-chain to radically improve their environmental credentials. The company is a spin-out from the world-class Camborne School of Mines, comprising of mineralogists, mining-engineers and LCA specialists and is currently working with some of the largest diversified mining companies in the world and downstream end-users to ensure raw materials used for the low-carbon economy are sourced at minimal environmental cost.Minviro's strategic research partner, from the **Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing Group at WMG, University of Warwick**, are specialists in modelling dynamic supply-chains; sustainable materials/manufacturing systems; digital lifecycle management; battery system engineering; new product development; and advanced propulsion systems.This fusion of experts, will translate amazing British science into a world-beating innovation, building novel and licensable battery impact calculator 'MineBIT', underpinned by data-driven (peer-reviewed) and temporal LCA. This highly novel 'off-the-shelf' tool will fully comply with international standards ISO14040 and ISO14044 and enable non LCA experts across global supply-chains (including OEM's, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers and investors) to source chemicals and dynamically build products with minimal environmental cost.

向低碳经济的转型正在顺利进行，而且正在加速。然而，与化石燃料的同类产品相比，电动汽车(EVS)或太阳能电池板等低排放能源和交通系统的矿物密集度更高。因此，预计到2050年，锂、钴、石墨和铟的矿物开采量将分别增长965%、585%、383%和241%，这将增加相关的环境压力。为了深度脱碳供应链，矿产的下游用户(如组装电动汽车的原始设备制造商)需要能够了解其供应链的环境绩效，以确保他们建立的技术不会被矿场糟糕的环境绩效所抵消。为了制造可持续、低影响的产品，他们还需要优化制造流程、化学品选择，并利用循环经济原则(在产品达到使用寿命结束时实现高等级回收)，同时仍生产优质、有竞争力的电池产品。生命周期评估(LCA)提供了一种方法，可系统地衡量供应链的影响，并动态重新设计电池成分(即低影响和高性能化学品)，同时响应大宗商品市场的变化，以减少项目的碳足迹。然而，生命周期评价需要优秀的数据，以准确量化不同矿场水平对原材料提取、加工和精炼的不同影响。然而，采矿业建立的用于LCA的数据集往往很少/根本不存在，这破坏了它们的完整性。**Minviro Ltd**是一家英国中小企业，开创了世界领先的LCA工具，使矿产价值链能够从根本上改善他们的环境资质。该公司是从世界一流的坎伯恩矿业学院剥离出来的，由矿物学家、采矿工程师和生命周期评价专家组成，目前正与世界上一些最大的多元化采矿公司和下游最终用户合作，以确保以最低的环境成本采购用于低碳经济的原材料。Minviro的战略研究合作伙伴来自华威大学WMG的**可持续材料和制造小组**，他们是动态供应链建模、可持续材料/制造系统、数字生命周期管理、电池系统工程、新产品开发；和先进的推进系统。这种专家的融合，将把令人惊叹的英国科学转化为世界一流的创新，建立以数据驱动(同行审查)和时间生命周期分析为基础的新颖且可许可的电池冲击计算器MineBIT。这种非常新颖的“现成”工具将完全符合国际标准ISO14040和ISO14044，并使全球供应链上的非LCA专家(包括OEM、一级和二级供应商和投资者)能够以最低的环境成本采购化学品和动态制造产品。