Supergen Bioenergy Hub 2018

生物质是在其生长过程中通过光合作用从大气中吸收CO2的植物或木质材料。当生物质用于生产生物能源时，它会重新释放到大气中，与生长期间隔离的二氧化碳量相同。因此，只要生物量增长的时间段接近释放，就不会对长期大气CO2浓度产生净增加。然而，处理和使用生物质的某些方面可能会产生额外的温室气体排放，需要考虑，鉴于英国正在努力减少所有碳排放，重要的是我们通过最大限度地生产和使用真正可持续的资源并开发有效的预处理和转化技术来有效利用我们的生物质资源。同样重要的是，我们要最好地利用可持续的生物质资源，并充分了解实施的更广泛影响和成本。该项目汇集了英国领先的生物能源研究小组，以开发可持续的生物能源系统，支持英国向负担得起的，有弹性的低碳能源未来过渡。我们将综合以前在土地和原料可用性方面的工作，以评估英国生物能源的现实潜在资源，并研究通过提供生态系统效益和生物质资源来支持英国农业的新作物。我们将测试不同原料在高效转化方案中的性能，并开发新技术，以提高生物能源系统的资源效率，特别是在小规模下。我们将评估使用生物质作为热能、电力、运输燃料或化学品的影响，以提供独立、权威的信息，指导工业家和政策制定者的决策。我们将评估生物能源在英国未来可持续能源结构中所占比例的潜力，同时考虑到这些过程对环境、经济和社会的影响。我们将与工业家和政策制定者合作，确保我们的工作与他们的需求相关，并反映可实现的实施标准。我们将与行业和政策界广泛分享我们的研究工作成果，并通过我们的网站，通过特别出版物，在传统和社交媒体上以及为公众参与量身定制的活动，向社会利益相关者提供。

Biomass is plant or woody material that during its growth has absorbed CO2 from the atmosphere through photosynthesis . When the biomass is used to produce bioenergy it re-releases to atmosphere the same amount of CO2 as was sequestered during growth. Therefore, as long as biomass growth is close in time period to release there is no net addition to the long term atmospheric CO2 concentration. However, some aspects of processing and using the biomass may generate additional greenhouse gas emissions that need to be accounted for and, given that the UK is trying to decrease all carbon emissions it is important that we make efficient use of our biomass resource by maximizing the production and use of truly sustainable resource and developing efficient pre-treatment and conversion technologies. It is also important that we make the best use of the sustainable biomass resource and fully understand the wider impact and costs of implementation. This project brings together leading UK bioenergy research groups to develop sustainable bioenergy systems that support the UK's transition to an affordable, resilient, low-carbon energy future. We will synthesize previous work on land and feedstock availability to assess the realistic potential resource for UK bioenergy and examine new crops that could support UK farming by delivering ecosystem benefits as well as biomass resource. We will test the performance of different feedstocks in high efficiency conversion options and develop new techniques which will improve resource efficiency in bioenergy systems, especially at small scale. We will evaluate the impact of using biomass for heat, electricity, transport fuels or chemicals to provide independent, authoritative information to guide decision making by industrialists and policy makers. We will assess the potential for bioenergy to contribute a proportion of the UK's future sustainable energy mix, taking into account the environmental, economic and social impacts of the processes.We will work with industrialists and policy makers to ensure that our work is relevant to their needs and reflects achievable implementation standards. We will share our findings in our research work widely with the industry and policy communities and make it accessible to societal stakeholders on our website, via special publications, in the conventional and on social media and with tailored events for public engagement.