Combustion analysis and holistic system modelling utilising hydrogen and carbon capture - towards the application of low-carbon fuels in the glass man

脱碳和能源弹性将是英国未来30年应对全球气候变化的“绿色工业革命”的重要组成部分。玻璃行业有潜力在循环经济概念和脱碳方面发挥主导作用，到2050年及以后实现净零碳排放。然而，零碳燃料在高温熔融过程中的燃烧性能会有所不同，目前还没有得到充分的了解。必须评估长期原料可用性、脱碳影响和成本，这需要对供应链和技术可行性有详细的了解。这个跨学科的博士项目旨在提供对炉内清洁燃烧传热的新认识，并开发一个整体系统模型，以解决玻璃制造中嵌入低碳燃料和碳捕获技术的集成低碳能源系统，提供对新技术的环境-经济-社会影响的新的深刻理解，以帮助实现玻璃行业到2050年的净零碳排放。本研究的目标包括燃烧理论研究、系统设计、环境经济评估和供应链研究。

Decarbonisation and energy resilience will be a huge part of the UK's 'green industrial revolution' in the next 30 years to tackle global climate change. The glass sector has the potential to play a leading role in the circular economy concept and decarbonisation to achieve net-zero carbon emission by 2050 and beyond. However, the combustion performance of zero-carbon fuels in high-temperature melting process will be different and yet to be fully understood. The long-term feedstocks availability, decarbonising impact and costs must be assessed, requiring detailed understanding on supply chains and technical viability. This cross-disciplinary PhD project aims to provide new understanding of heat transfers of clean combustion in furnace and develop a holistic system model to address integrated low-carbon energy systems embedded with low-carbon fuels and carbon capture technologies in the glass manufacturing, providing a new and deep understanding on the environmental-economic-societal impact of the new technologies to help deliver net-zero carbon emission in the glass sector by 2050. The objectives of this study include theoretical combustion study, system design, environmental-economic evaluations, and supply chains study.