SAVVIER: Silicates & Aluminosilicates: Visibility for Value-chain Innovation & Environmental Responsibility

该项目旨在通过帮助英国材料和制造组织在高效和合作的供应链中合作，提高它们的竞争力，适应未来。在我们对未来的展望中，供应链中一个工业合作伙伴的废物或副产品成为另一个合作伙伴的材料投入。这些“二次材料”被重复使用，作为原始原材料的替代品(例如，从开采地球资源中获得)。材料使用者看到了好处，因为他们不必采购和进口原始材料，而材料供应商则避免了处理他们的废物或副产品的问题。这种被称为工业共生的协作方法也提供了一个很好的机会来减少温室气体排放和废物造成的环境污染，因为资源的使用时间更长。更精明的项目合作伙伴旨在展示使用数字平台和供应链映射和评估方法的可行性，以帮助建立协作的英国供应链，用于供应、加工和使用废物衍生材料。该项目将专注于硅酸盐和铝硅酸盐材料。硅酸盐(即含有金属离子、硅和氧的材料)和铝硅酸盐(另外还含有铝离子)是重要的无机材料，可用于多种应用，包括洗涤剂、纸张和卡片、粘合剂、水泥、轮胎、干燥剂(包括猫砂)和许多工业过程的催化剂。该项目将使用真正的工业挑战(在干洗粉中替代硅酸盐和硅酸铝)作为该项目的重点。

The SAVVIER project aims to help UK materials and manufacturing organisations become more competitive and fit for the future by helping them work together in efficient and cooperative supply chains. In our vision for the future, the wastes or by-products of one industrial partner in a supply chain become the material inputs for another partner. These 'secondary materials' are reused as replacements for virgin raw materials (e.g. sourced from the extraction of earth resources). Material users see benefits as they do not have to source and import virgin materials, while material suppliers avoid the problem of disposing of their wastes or by-products. This collaborative approach -- known as Industrial Symbiosis -- also provides a great opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and environmental pollution from wastes, as resources are maintained in use for longer.The SAVVIER project partners aim to show the feasibility of using a digital platform and supply chain mapping and assessment methods to help establish collaborative UK supply chains for the supply, processing and use of waste-derived materials. The project will focus on silicate and aluminosilicate materials. Silicates (i.e. materials that contain a metal ion, silicon and oxygen) and aluminosilicates (that additionally contain aluminium ions) are important inorganic materials used in multiple applications, including laundry detergents, paper and card, adhesives, cements, tyres, desiccants (including cat litter) and as catalysts for many industrial processes.The project will use a real industrial challenge (replacement of silicates and aluminosilicates in dry laundry powers) as a focus for the project.