Carbon Utilisation in the South Wales Industrial Cluster

南威尔士产业集群的碳利用

• 批准号: 2751222
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2751222
• 关键词: Carbon; Utilisation; South; Wales; Industrial

Research into industrial decarbonisation is essential to asset the growing mix of low-carbon technologies that will dominate in the Net Zero future. This research focuses on identifying business-case carbon capture utilisation (CCU) applications across South Wales Industrial Cluster (SWIC). CCU is a recognised (and commercialised) method of industrial decarbonisation and sustainable waste management. Utilisation of waste-CO2 reduces a process' carbon footprint by avoiding emissions from conventionally fossil-derived inputs. In some cases CCU can permanently store CO2 in products i.e., mineralisation in construction materials. Furthermore, utilisation of waste-CO2 as a feedstock enables local circularity, and reduces resource consumption by adding value to waste, helping decarbonisation of traditionally hard to abate sectors (e.g., sustainable aviation fuel generation from waste-CO2).Although CCU is a viable decarbonisation method, particularly in dispersed industrial sites, it is not as well researched nor applied as other low-carbon technologies. This is mainly due to insufficient carbon pricing, technology immaturity with energy penalties and lack of CCU awareness. Thus, the following research aims to hurdle such challenges by applying circularity and green-industrial symbiosis concepts with CCU by sharing low-carbon infrastructure and locally reusing waste-CO2. We hope to identify what CO2 utilisation pathways best suit SWIC; and where CO2 derived products can be incorporated locally. Hence research objectives are to simulate relevant CCU plants within the a SWIC landscape case-by-case. This will be done using chemical/system engineering software Aspen Plus. Currently, renewable methanol synthesis from waste-CO2 emissions was found to have relevancy, thus a model is being developed to evaluate its potential in SWIC.

对工业脱碳的研究对于资产不断增长的低碳技术组合至关重要，这些技术将在净零未来占据主导地位。这项研究的重点是确定商业案例碳捕获利用（CCU）在南威尔士工业集群（SWIC）的应用。CCU是一种公认的（和商业化的）工业脱碳和可持续废物管理方法。利用废物-CO2通过避免传统化石来源的投入物的排放来减少过程的碳足迹。在某些情况下，CCU可以将CO2永久储存在产品中，即，建筑材料中的矿化。此外，利用废物-CO2作为原料可以实现当地循环，并通过增加废物的价值来减少资源消耗，帮助传统上难以减少的行业（例如，虽然CCU是一种可行的脱碳方法，特别是在分散的工业场所，但它的研究和应用不如其他低碳技术。这主要是由于碳定价不足，技术不成熟，能源惩罚以及缺乏CCU意识。因此，以下研究旨在通过共享低碳基础设施和本地再利用废物-CO2，将循环和绿色工业共生概念与CCU相结合，以克服这些挑战。我们希望确定哪些CO2利用途径最适合SWIC;以及CO2衍生产品可以在当地合并。因此，研究目标是模拟相关CCU植物在一个SWIC景观的情况下。这将使用化学/系统工程软件白杨Plus完成。目前，从废物CO2排放中合成可再生甲醇被发现具有相关性，因此正在开发一个模型来评估其在SWIC中的潜力。