EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Carbon Capture and Storage and Cleaner Fossil Energy

这一提议的动机是，随着亚洲经济体的快速增长和发达国家页岩气的重大发现，全球对化石燃料的依赖将增加。IDC的战略愿景是建立一个世界领先的工业博士培训中心，重点培养具有广泛经济、社会和背景意识、具有强大技术技能并能够在多学科团队中运作的研究领导者和下一代创新者。涵盖一系列知识转移、部署和政策角色。他们将能够分析项目的总体经济背景，并了解其社会和道德影响。这些技能将使他们能够为刺激英国工业开发下一代技术做出贡献，以减少化石燃料的温室气体排放，并最终通过增加就业和出口来改善英国在全球的地位。该中心将涉及50多名碳捕获和储存（CCS）和清洁化石能源领域的知名学者，为70名博士生提供跨主题的综合监督能力。它将提供与我们的工业伙伴合作共同创建的创新培训计划，以满足他们的高级技能需求。工业界的支持信表明，在进行研究和培养博士学位方面，对拟议中心的需求非常强烈，有10家新公司愿意加入拟议中心，包括EDF Energy，Siemens，BOC Linde和Caterpillar，以及ANSYS等软件公司，参与发电厂和CCS模拟。我们目前的合作伙伴包括斗山巴布科克公司、阿尔斯通电力公司、空气产品公司、能源技术研究所（ETI）、塔塔钢铁公司、上证所、莱茵npower公司、约翰逊万丰公司、意昂公司、CPL工业公司、清洁煤炭有限公司和Innospec公司，以及生物质和化石燃料研究联盟（BF 2 RA），这是一个由电力行业的公司组成的集团。此外，我们还与包括CMCL Innovation、2Co Energy、PSE和C-Capture在内的中小企业合作，这些企业最近获得了能源和气候变化部（DECC）/技术战略委员会（TSB）/ETI/EC对CCS项目的支持。公司积极参与研究项目，使IDC成为最有效的CDT形式，直接有助于英国在化石能源发电和相关行业保持强大的研发基础，并实现DECC CCS路线图的目标，使行业能够定义符合其研发优先事项的项目。我们的行业合作伙伴确定的未来10-20年的主要技术挑战是：（i）实施新的、更灵活和更高效的化石燃料发电厂，以满足《能源法案》中电力市场改革激励措施所认可的高峰需求，提高效率涉及材料挑战，并在燃煤发电厂中最大限度地使用生物质;（ii）在接近零排放的发电厂采用商业规模的CCS，并开发降低成本的技术，包括改善第一代溶剂-基于捕获过程，开发下一代捕获过程，并了解杂质对CO2运输和储存的影响;（ii）最大限度地发挥非传统天然气的潜力，包括页岩气、“致密”天然气和煤炭地下气化产生的合成气;以及（iii）开发技术，大幅减少其他工业部门的二氧化碳排放量：钢铁制造、水泥、炼油厂、家用燃料和小型柴油发电站，这些挑战与EPSRC的“CCS和清洁化石能源”优先领域中定义的挑战密切相关。此外，它们涵盖了生物能源优先领域中定义的传统工厂的生物质燃烧，其中具体问题涉及侵蚀，腐蚀，结渣，结垢和整体供应链经济学。

The motivation for this proposal is that the global reliance on fossil fuels is set to increase with the rapid growth of Asian economies and major discoveries of shale gas in developed nations. The strategic vision of the IDC is to develop a world-leading Centre for Industrial Doctoral Training focussed on delivering research leaders and next-generation innovators with broad economic, societal and contextual awareness, having strong technical skills and capable of operating in multi-disciplinary teams covering a range of knowledge transfer, deployment and policy roles. They will be able to analyse the overall economic context of projects and be aware of their social and ethical implications. These skills will enable them to contribute to stimulating UK-based industry to develop next-generation technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and ultimately improve the UK's position globally through increased jobs and exports. The Centre will involve over 50 recognised academics in carbon capture & storage (CCS) and cleaner fossil energy to provide comprehensive supervisory capacity across the theme for 70 doctoral students. It will provide an innovative training programme co-created in collaboration with our industrial partners to meet their advanced skills needs. The industrial letters of support demonstrate a strong need for the proposed Centre in terms of research to be conducted and PhDs that will be produced, with 10 new companies willing to join the proposed Centre including EDF Energy, Siemens, BOC Linde and Caterpillar, together with software companies, such as ANSYS, involved with power plant and CCS simulation. We maintain strong support from our current partners that include Doosan Babcock, Alstom Power, Air Products, the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), Tata Steel, SSE, RWE npower, Johnson Matthey, E.ON, CPL Industries, Clean Coal Ltd and Innospec, together with the Biomass & Fossil Fuels Research Alliance (BF2RA), a grouping of companies across the power sector. Further, we have engaged SMEs, including CMCL Innovation, 2Co Energy, PSE and C-Capture, that have recently received Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)/Technology Strategy Board (TSB)/ETI/EC support for CCS projects. The active involvement companies have in the research projects, make an IDC the most effective form of CDT to directly contribute to the UK maintaining a strong R&D base across the fossil energy power and allied sectors and to meet the aims of the DECC CCS Roadmap in enabling industry to define projects fitting their R&D priorities.The major technical challenges over the next 10-20 years identified by our industrial partners are: (i) implementing new, more flexible and efficient fossil fuel power plant to meet peak demand as recognised by electricity market reform incentives in the Energy Bill, with efficiency improvements involving materials challenges and maximising biomass use in coal-fired plant;(ii) deploying CCS at commercial scale for near-zero emission power plant and developing cost reduction technologies which involves improving first-generation solvent-based capture processes, developing next-generation capture processes, and understanding the impact of impurities on CO2 transport and storage; (iimaximising the potential of unconventional gas, including shale gas, 'tight' gas and syngas produced from underground coal gasification; and (iii) developing technologies for vastly reduced CO2 emissions in other industrial sectors: iron and steel making, cement, refineries, domestic fuels and small-scale diesel power generatort andThese challenges match closely those defined in EPSRC's Priority Area of 'CCS and cleaner fossil energy'. Further, they cover biomass firing in conventional plant defined in the Bioenergy Priority Area, where specific issues concern erosion, corrosion, slagging, fouling and overall supply chain economics.