Sustainable Chemicals Innovations Enabling Net Carbon Emissions (SCIENCE)

英国最近在清洁增长方面迈出了大胆的一步，咨询建议到2035年停止销售传统的柴油和汽油乘用车，到2050年实现零排放车队。这些雄心确实是大胆的，但它们给汽车行业及其供应链带来了额外的压力，要求他们创新，并突出了对现有汽车车队未来环境可行性的担忧。抛开实现大规模电气化必须克服的明显的科学、环境和技术障碍（假设电气化是被采用的，并且对环境的影响最小），这些雄心勃勃的目标激发了人们减少传统内燃机（ICE）对各种规模交通运输影响的意识。迫切需要提高效率，同时减少车辆的综合终身碳足迹，这促使人们对燃油效率、维护频率以及所有与内燃机相关的消耗品的影响进行审查。迄今为止，路博润的产品为所有内燃机平台提供了大量的燃油和发动机油添加剂，直接促进了发动机效率的显著提高，将典型的MPG提高了20%，从而节省了燃油消耗和二氧化碳排放。为了继续在嵌入碳和产品性能方面实现逐年节约，在小分子、增材设计方面，以及在制造和配方方面进行创新，显然迫切需要更加努力。此外，路博润的化学业务不仅涉及内燃机运输，还涉及汽车电气化和更广泛的终端市场，包括家庭和个人护理、工业和生命科学。事实上，化学是大多数产品的核心，据估计，超过96%的制成品含有化学工业成分，使该行业成为英国经济的主要贡献者，并通过创新成为变革的关键推动者。这项繁荣伙伴关系提案建立在与诺丁汉大学和华威大学现有的战略关系基础上，旨在解决一系列独特的商业主导的研究挑战，这些挑战被认为是路博润技术的“关键路径”，只有由来自学术界的专家组成一个多学科研究团队才能解决。这种伙伴关系将提供一个综合的愿景，以设计更智能的分子，使用更好的化学物质和能量弹性过程。我们的愿景是尽可能使用连续加工技术来改变路博润及其他地区的化学品生产方式。我们的目标是尽量减少构建复杂分子所需的化学品，溶剂和处理步骤的数量。我们将通过利用原子高效催化来促进更具体的化学转化和更清洁的过程来实现这一目标。通过将连续热化学和环境可接受的溶剂结合起来，我们将创建一个工具箱，该工具包具有将添加剂合成的各个方面从最初的发现转变为高价值分子的化学制造的能力。

The UK has recently taken a bold step towards clean growth, consulting on ending the sale of conventional diesel and petrol passenger cars by 2035 and to realise a zero-emissions vehicle fleet by 2050. These ambitions are indeed bold however they place additional pressures on the automotive industry and its supply chain to innovate and highlight concerns about the onwards environmental viability of the existing automotive fleet. Placing aside the obvious scientific, environmental and technical hurdles that must be overcome to deliver mass electrification (assuming that is what is adopted and is the lowest environmental impact), these ambitions stimulate an awareness to reduce the impact of traditional internal combustion engines (ICE) in transportation across all scales. There is a pressing need to raise efficiencies, while reducing the integrated, life-long carbon footprint of the vehicle which prompts scrutiny on fuel efficiency, maintenance frequency, and indeed the impact of all ICE related consumables. To date Lubrizol products, which deliver a significant proportion of the fuel and engine oil additives that are used across all ICE platforms, have directly contributed to and help enable technology which gives notable increases in engine efficiency, in the order of 20% increase in typical MPG, which delivers savings in terms fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. To continue to deliver year-on-year savings in terms of embedded carbon and product performance there is a clear and urgent need to drive harder, in terms of small-molecule, additive design and to innovate in terms of manufacturing and formulation. Furthermore, Lubrizol chemistry reaches beyond ICE transportation and feeds into vehicle electrification and wider end markets, including home and personal care, industrial, and Life Sciences. Indeed, chemistry is at the heart of most products and it is estimated that over 96% of all manufactured goods have chemical industry content, making the industry a major contributor to the UK economy and a key facilitator of change through innovation. This Prosperity Partnership proposal builds on existing strategic relationships with University of Nottingham and University of Warwick to tackle a distinct series of business-led research challenges that are considered "critical path" in terms of Lubrizol technologies, which can only be addressed by assembling a multidisciplinary research team with experts drawn from academia. This partnership will deliver an integrated vision to design Smarter Molecules, using Better Chemistries, and Energy Resilient Processes. Our vision is to use, whenever possible, continuous processing to transform how chemicals are manufactured in Lubrizol and beyond. We aim to minimize the amount of chemicals, solvents and processing steps needed to construct complex molecules. We will achieve this by exploiting atom efficient catalysis to promote more specific chemical transformations and cleaner processes. By linking continuous thermal chemistry and environmentally acceptable solvents, we will create a toolkit with the power to transform all aspects of additive synthesis from initial discovery through to chemical manufacturing of high-value molecules.