Biomass Biorefinery Network (BBNet)

当今的工业经济主要建立在石化工业的基础上，为我们提供消耗的燃料、化学品和材料。石化行业每年为英国经济带来约 500 亿英镑的价值，但由于净碳排放对环境的影响，该行业不可持续。全球承诺在本世纪中叶转向碳中和经济，这意味着我们需要寻找可持续资源来替代石油。非粮食生物质，例如农作物残留物和食物垃圾，可以提供可再生的碳中性资源，可以提供燃料、化学品和材料所需的丰富能源碳化学物质。生物质生物精炼网络（BBNet）将作为一个焦点，建立和维持一个由工业和学术从业者组成的充满活力的社区，共同开发将非食品生物质转化为可持续燃料、化学品和材料的新工艺。 BBNet 将汇集对生物可再生产品感兴趣的科学家和企业，并提供小规模研究资金，以帮助启动新的合作和推动新的研究领域。 BBNet 将通过资助竞赛和研讨会鼓励处于职业生涯早期的科学家参与生物炼制领域。BBNet 将作为推动英国生物基行业发展的焦点，并帮助英国成为最吸引国际公司开发支持新工业领域技术的地方。该网络将委托编写报告，提供有关生物精炼行业新机遇领域的信息和情报。 BBNet 将充当商界和学术界的代言人，并与政府政策制定者密切合作，以确保他们了解碳中和生物可再生产品在经济和环境方面带来的潜在好处。我们将委托相关英国和国际公司进行一项调查，看看哪些因素可以促进行业发展，并使英国成为生物可再生能源行业更有吸引力的业务发展地。将科学知识转化为商业流程需要具备扩大流程规模并证明其技术经济可行性的能力。英国正在通过 BioPilots UK 开发一个支持能力网络，其中包括威尔士、约克、蒂赛德和苏格兰的区域开放生物精炼设施。 BBNet 将与英国 Biopilots 密切合作，开展资助竞赛，以便对工业相关的创新流程进行大规模测试，以帮助创造商机。

Today's industrial economy is built largely on the petrochemical industries that provide us with the fuels, chemicals and materials that we consume. The petrochemicals sector is worth around £50b to the UK economy each year, but is unsustainable due to the impacts of net carbon emissions on the environment. Global commitments to move to a carbon-neutral economy by the middle of the century mean that we need to find sustainable resources to replace petroleum. Non-food biomass, such as crop residues and food waste, can provide a renewable carbon-neutral resource that can provide the energy rich carbon chemistries needed for the provision of fuels, chemicals and materials. The Biomass Biorefinery Network (BBNet) will serve as a focal point to build and sustain a dynamic community of industrial and academic practitioners working together to develop new processes for the conversion of non-food biomass into sustainable fuels, chemicals and materials. BBNet will bring together scientists and businesses with interests in biorenewable products and provide small scale research funding to help initiate new collaborations and pump-prime new research areas. BBNet will encourage early-career scientists to get involved in the biorefinery sector through funding competitions and workshops.BBNet will serve as a focal point to drive forward the UK's bio-based sector and help make the UK the most attractive place for international companies to develop the technologies to underpin the new industrial sector. The network will commission reports that will provide information and intelligence on new areas of opportunity in the biorefinery sector. BBNet will serve as a voice for the business and academic sectors and engage closely with government policy makers to ensure they understand the potential benefits offered by carbon-neutral biorenewable products in both economic and environmental terms. We will commission a survey of relevant UK and international companies to see what factors would enable sector development and make the UK a more attractive place to develop their businesses in the biorenewables sector. The translation of scientific knowledge into commercial processes requires the ability to up-scale processes and demonstrate their techno-economic viability. The UK is developing a network of enabling capability through the BioPilots UK, which encompasses regional open-access biorefinery facilities in Wales, York, Teesside and Scotland. BBNet will work closely with Biopilots UK and develop funding competitions that allow industrially relevant innovative processes to be tested at scale to help build business opportunities.