Biomass Biorefinery Network (BBNet)

今天的工业经济在很大程度上是建立在石油化工工业的基础上的，石油化工工业为我们提供了我们所消费的燃料、化学品和材料。石油化工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，它是不可持续的。全球承诺在本世纪中叶实现碳中和经济，这意味着我们需要找到可持续的资源来取代石油。非粮食生物质，如作物残茬和食物垃圾，可以提供一种可再生的碳中性资源，可以提供提供燃料、化学品和材料所需的富含能量的碳化学物质。生物质生物炼制网络（BBNet）将作为一个焦点，建立和维持一个充满活力的工业和学术从业者社区，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将把对生物可再生产品感兴趣的科学家和企业聚集在一起，并提供小规模的研究资金，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的方式，鼓励早期职业科学家参与生物炼制领域。BBNet将成为推动英国生物基行业发展的焦点，并帮助英国成为国际公司开发技术以支撑新工业部门的最具吸引力的地方。该网络将委托编写报告，提供有关生物炼制领域新机会的信息和情报。BBNet将为商业和学术部门发声，并与政府决策者密切合作，确保他们了解碳中性生物可再生产品在经济和环境方面的潜在好处。我们将委托对相关的英国和国际公司进行调查，以了解哪些因素可以促进行业发展，并使英国成为一个更具吸引力的地方，以发展他们在生物可再生能源领域的业务。将科学知识转化为商业过程需要有能力扩大过程规模并证明其技术经济可行性。英国正在通过BioPilots UK开发一个支持能力的网络，该网络包括威尔士、约克、提赛德和苏格兰的区域开放生物炼制设施。BBNet将与Biopilots UK密切合作，并开展资助竞赛，允许工业相关的创新过程进行大规模测试，以帮助建立商业机会。

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.