Optimising Energy Management in Industry - 'OPTEMIN'

英国政府、欧盟和整个国际社会都有减少温室气体排放和全球变暖的宏伟目标。尽管英国有可能实现到2020年的减排目标，但如果不对能源生产、分配和利用方面的政策和技术方法进行重大改革，到2050年和2100年的长期目标就不太可能实现。 在全球范围内，工业能源使用占温室气体排放量的33%。在英国，工业排放近年来有所减少，目前估计占总排放量的20-25%。工业部门大约70%的能源需求是用于供热。所有的加热过程都会产生大量的废热，在某些情况下高达50%，并且被广泛认为存在巨大的热回收潜力，以今天的能源价格计算，估计在18-40 TWh/年或1.8 - 4亿英镑/年之间。到目前为止，由于技术、经济和组织因素，大部分潜力尚未开发。能源效率和脱碳的其他机会包括优化占工业能源使用量35%的蒸汽系统，使用生物能源，特别是现场产生的有机废物和其他废物，以及整个工业现场的能源整合和优化。 为了利用能源效率、热回收和在较高或较低温度下转换为电能或热能所提供的潜力，并利用废物能源转换和能源整合所提供的机会，需要解决一些重大挑战。其中包括：i）足够高粒度的数据采集技术的开发和应用，以便能够在组件、过程和系统级别上进行详细的性能分析，ii）用于技术的最佳设计的方法，以便在实施阶段对其性能提供信心，iii）用于真实的时间的性能分析和控制优化的工具，iv）在场地层面建立能源流动模型，以根据能源、环境和经济考虑优化能源管理;（iv）调查和开发商业模式，克服障碍，鼓励采用新的节能和减少需求技术。 在OPTEMIN项目中，我们的目标是通过与我们的主要行业合作伙伴密切合作来应对这些挑战：i）了解与获取和分析大型能源数据相关的主要技术，运营和经济问题，ii）使用数据深入了解复杂的能源网络，它们在大型工业制造设施中的相互作用和影响，iii）使用来自示范装置的数据批判性地评估新的创新能源需求减少和能源转换技术的性能，iv）调查可以促进其全面开发和商业化的驱动因素和商业模式，v）开发优化单个过程设计的方法和工具，整个场地的能源整合和管理，并在政府政策和2050年脱碳路线图的背景下评估其脱碳潜力。总体目标是通过研究计划和由综合数据集支持的充分记录的案例研究，展示实现能源需求和碳排放减少超过15%的潜力。

The UK Government the EU and the international community in general have ambitious targets for reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) and Global Warming. Even though emission reduction targets to 2020 are likely to be met by the UK, longer term targets to 2050 and 2100 are unlikely to be met without substantial changes to policy and technological approaches in the generation, distribution and utilisation of energy. Globally, industrial energy use is responsible for 33% of greenhouse gas emissions. In the UK, industrial emissions have reduced in recent years and are now estimated to contribute between 20-25% of total emissions. Approximately 70% of the energy demand of the industrial sector is for heat. All heating processes result in significant quantities of waste heat, up to 50% in some cases, and is widely acknowledged that there is significant potential for heat recovery, estimated at between 18-40 TWh/yr or £0.18-0.4 billion per year at today's energy prices. As yet, most of this potential has remained unexploited due to technical, economic and organisational factors. Other opportunities for energy efficiency and decarbonisation include the optimisation of steam systems that are responsible for 35% of industrial energy use, the use of bioenergy, particularly from organic and other wastes generated on site, and whole industrial site energy integration and optimisation. To exploit the potential offered by energy efficiency, heat recovery and conversion to electrical or thermal energy at a higher or lower temperature and utilise the opportunities offered by waste to energy conversion and energy integration a number of major challenges need to be addressed. These include: i) development and application of technologies for data acquisition at high enough granularity to enable detailed analysis of performance at component, process and system level, ii) methodologies for the optimal design of technologies to provide confidence in their performance at implementation stage, iii) tools for performance analysis and control optimisation in real time, iv) modelling of energy flows at site level to provide optimisation of energy management based on energy, environmental and economic considerations, and iv) investigation and development of business models that overcome barriers and encourage the adoption of new energy efficient and demand reduction technologies. In the OPTEMIN project we aim to address these challenges by working very closely with our key industrial collaborators to: i) understand the major technical, operational and economic issues associated with the acquisition and analysis of large energy data, ii) use the data to gain insights into the complex energy networks, their interactions and impacts in large industrial manufacturing facilities, iii) critically evaluate the performance of new innovative energy demand reduction and energy conversion technologies using data from demonstration installations, iv) investigate drivers and business models that can facilitate their full development and commercialisation, v) develop methodologies and tools to optimise individual process design, whole site energy integration and management and evaluate their decarbonisation potential within the context of Government policies and decarbonisation roadmaps to 2050. The overall objective is to demonstrate through the research programme and fully documented case studies supported by comprehensive data sets, the potential to achieve energy demand and carbon emission reductions in excess of 15%.