Research into char derived from mixed waste feedstocks, offering exciting carbon removal benefits to industry

新千年见证了废物管理领域的一场革命，90%的垃圾填埋场已经消失，导致了重大的碳排放问题。数百万吨的剩余废物现在进入回收和焚烧（燃烧）替代品。虽然这无疑是一个好消息，但该行业报告了一个巨大的产能缺口，需要更多的废物设施能源（并非没有自己的问题，例如燃烧塑料废物产生的排放量几乎与燃烧煤炭一样多）。英国要实现巴黎气候变化协议设定的净零排放目标，需要采用多种新方法来增加新的产能，包括使用新的除碳技术，以环保的方式释放废物中储存的能量，减少对新化石燃料的需求。标准天然气公司使用获得专利的先进热处理工艺来处理不可回收的家庭、商业和工业废物。我们的SG技术提供清洁能源、沼气、绿色制氢、碳去除炭和从大气中去除碳。该项目涉及碳负极炭材料，这是我们工艺的产物。全世界公认的方法是将其掩埋或将其用作土壤调理剂。这当然是一种选择，但在本项目中，我们将对各种原料产生的焦炭进行评估，以确定每个样品的特性。我们将评估焦炭的不同用途，进行市场研究和商业案例评估，我们将焦炭与沥青和混凝土混合。将进行碳捕获分析，以确认这些方法的环境效益。我们得到了行业合作伙伴的大力支持，他们将参与项目的评估。这项研究可以大大加强我们令人兴奋的技术的经济性，从而加速采用。

The new millennium has witnessed a revolution in the waste management sector, which has moved away from 90% landfill, resulting in major carbon emissions problems. Millions of tonnes of residual waste now go into recycling and incineration (burnt) alternatives. While this is undoubtedly a good-news story, the industry reports a large capacity gap, needing more energy from waste facilities, (not without their own issues, for example burning plastic waste creates almost as much emissions as burning coal). For the UK to hit the net zero targets set by the Paris climate change agreement, multiple new approaches are required to add new capacity including using new carbon removal technology and releasing the stored energy in waste in an environmentally positive way, reducing the need for new fossil fuels.Standard Gas use a patented advanced thermal process to treat non-recyclable household, commercial and industrial waste. Our SG technology offers clean power, biogas, green hydrogen generation, carbon removal char and carbon removed from the atmosphere.This project relates to the carbon negative char material which is an output from our process. The accepted approach around the world is to bury it or use it as a soil conditioner. This is certainly one option, however in this project we will conduct evaluation of the char produced from a variety of feedstock materials to ascertain each sample's characteristics. We will evaluate different uses for the char, conducting market research and business case evaluation for applications where we blend the chars with asphalt, and concrete. Carbon capture analysis will be carried out to confirm the environmental benefits from these approaches. We have strong support from industry partners who will be involved in evaluations in the project. This research could dramatically strengthen the economics of our exciting technology, and so accelerate adoption.