UKCCSRC - The United Kingdom Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre

UKCCSRC是英国国家碳捕集与封存研究中心，主要有三个优先事项：提供研究影响，发展领导者，塑造能力战略- UKCCSRC将为英国学术CCS研究带来战略，以支持政府目标。影响——将通过为CCS研发提供一个国家焦点来最大化，将用户社区和学者聚集在一起分析问题、设计和实施世界领先的研究并分享交付。一个关键的优先事项将是通过推动一项综合研究计划来帮助重建英国经济，该计划的重点是最大限度地提高碳排放对英国低碳能源系统的贡献。研究将与以下途径联系起来，以影响CCS部署的未来阶段：a)最大限度地从DECC CCS示范项目中学习，以降低后续CCS项目的成本和风险。b)开发一个知识库，作为2020年代英国电力部门脱碳的一部分，包括CCS基础设施的使用寿命，直到2050年及以后。)为CCS的广泛部署做好准备，以实现英国2050年的目标，包括工业CCS，化石燃料CCS的极低残留排放和使用CCS的生物质负排放。领导者——UKCCSRC将跨越机构和学科界限，汇集有远见的领导者，他们能够制定研究议程，充分结合交叉领域的知识，以最大限度地发挥CCS的潜力，为复杂的长期研究项目提供鼓舞人心的团队领导者，并将为职业生涯早期和中期的研究人员提供领导力发展机会。能力——英国CCS研究中心将为CCS研究人员提供空间、支持和机会，以培养创造力，并使他们能够在当前或未来国家需要的CCS领域进行最高质量的长期研究。UKCCSRC的活动将由一个广泛的独立委员会监督，向RCUK和其他资助者报告。一个由首席研究员/主任和八名联合调查员加上一个秘书处组成的管理小组将负责中心的运作。另外九个研究领域冠军也将帮助涵盖实施CCS系统所涉及的广泛的不同专业知识领域。现有的英国CCS社区网络将由该中心运营，为英国CCS利益相关者提供一个全面包容的论坛，并为所有英国学者提供与UKCCSRC接触的途径。UKCCSRC的初始资金支持一项核心研究计划（300万英镑），该计划涵盖了现有研究中的一些明显空白，还包括可能具有战略重要性的领域的范围研究。它还资助共享的国家设施（200万英镑加上来自DECC的290万英镑）。另外还有150万英镑作为灵活的种子基金，在竞争的基础上分配给新兴的战略研究需求。学术受益人描述谁将从研究中受益[不超过4000字符]。中心将通过以下途径扩展：a)将邀请现有和新的CCS项目的学术研究人员将这些项目与中心联系起来。b)与中心相关项目的非学术合作伙伴可能成为UKCCSRC附属机构。UKCCSRC研究项目的额外资金将从RCUK和其他英国和国际政府资助的来源以及工业界寻求。研究和影响交付途径（RAPID） UKCCSRC未来扩展的关键总体战略是从一开始就将研究与影响结合起来。拟议的研究必须与可行的路线联系起来，才能对CCS的部署产生积极影响。快速过程将贯穿UKCCSRC的整个过程，其结果总结在快速手册中，每年更新一次。

The UKCCSRC is a national UK research hub for Carbon Capture and Storage with three main priorities:Delivering Research Impact Developing Leaders Shaping CapabilityStrategy - The UKCCSRC will bring strategy to UK academic CCS research in support of government targets.Impact - will be maximised by providing a national focal point for CCS R&D to bring together the user community andacademics to analyse problems, devise and carry out world-leading research and share delivery. A key priority will be tohelp rebuild the UK economy by driving an integrated research programme focused on maximising the contribution of CCSto a low-carbon energy system for UK.Research will be linked to the following pathways to impact in future stages of CCS deployment:a) Maximise the learning from the DECC CCS demonstration programme to reduce costs and risks for subsequent CCSprojects to.b) Develop a knowledge base for rollout of CCS as part of UK electricity sector decarbonisation in the 2020s, including forthe life of this CCS infrastructure until 2050 and beyond.c) Prepare for extensive deployment of CCS to meet UK 2050 targets, including CCS on industry, very low residualemissions from CCS on fossil fuels and negative emissions from biomass with CCS.Leaders - The UKCCSRC will cross institutional and disciplinary boundaries to bring together visionary leaders able to setresearch agendas that fully combine the intersecting fields of knowledge required to maximise the potential of CCS,inspirational team leaders for complex, long-term research programmes, and will also provide leadership developmentopportunities for early- and mid-career researchers.Capability - The UK CCS Research Centre will provide CCS researchers with the space, support and opportunities to fostercreativity and to empower them to deliver the highest quality long-term research in CCS areas where there is current orfuture national need.The activities of the UKCCSRC will be overseen by a broadly-based independent Board, reporting to RCUK and otherfunders. A Management Team made up of the Principal Investigator/Director and eight Co-Investigators plus a Secretariatwill be responsible for running the Centre. Nine additional Research Area Champions will also help cover the wide range ofdifferent specialised knowledge fields involved in implementing CCS systems.The existing UK CCS Community Network will be operated by the Centre, giving a fully inclusive forum for UK CCSstakeholders and a route for all UK academics to engage with the UKCCSRC.The UKCCSRC initial funding supports a core research programme (£3M) that covers a number of evident gaps in existingresearch and also includes scoping research in areas likely to be of strategic importance. It also funds shared nationalfacilities (£2M plus £2.9M from DECC). A further £1.5M has been set aside for flexible seed funding to be allocated on acompetitive basis for emerging strategic research needs.Academic BeneficiariesDescribe who will benefit from the research [up to 4000 chars].The Centre will be expanded by a number of routes:a) Academic researchers on existing and new CCS projects will be invited to link these to the Centre.b) Non-academic partners in projects that are linked to the Centre may become UKCCSRC Affiliatesc) Additional funding for UKCCSRC research programmes will be sought from RCUK and other UK and internationalgovernment-funded sources and also from industry.Research and Pathways to Impact Delivery (RAPID)The key overall strategy for future UKCCSRC expansion is to couple research with impact from the outset. Proposedresearch will have to be linked to plausible routes to deliver a positive impact for CCS deployment. The RAPID process willrun throughout the course of the UKCCSRC with results summarised in a RAPID Handbook, updated yearly.