Biomass and organic waste reprocessing - SCWO for sustainable recovery of inorganic materials, emissions reduction and organic pollutant neutralisation

联合国通过其2020-2030年“十年行动”强调迫切需要1）减少大气中的二氧化碳水平，以避免对气候的严重影响，2）提高社会各领域材料的可持续性和再利用。有机材料（生物和合成）和废物在应对这一挑战方面具有巨大的潜力。结合碳和无机材料的有机材料（例如，磷酸盐）对全球供应链至关重要，从我们吃的食物，我们服用的药物，到工业化学品和燃料。而这些材料对全球经济至关重要。这些材料中的许多是短暂的，其废物导致全球排放量的约10%，并且诸如营养物和药物副产品的成分导致环境污染水平的增加（例如，合成激素和富营养化磷酸盐造成的水污染）。随着全球人口的持续增长，对这些材料的需求只会增加，相关的环境影响也会增加。同样重要的是确保有效生产这些材料所需的原料供应，如磷酸盐，磷酸盐对生产化肥至关重要，由于密集使用，这是一种超过峰值供应的全球枯竭资源。一个重要的机会已经出现，使用智能设计将这些残留物和废物与工业所需投入的可持续生产联系起来。要做到这一点，需要新的技术来处理这种潜在的污染材料，以回收有价值的无机成分，并防止它们成为污染物，例如磷酸盐是一种全球枯竭的资源，是化肥生产的关键。DCT技术可以将有机废物和其他材料，加工它们以回收有价值的工业材料，同时执行同样重要的任务，减轻相关的环境污染和排放。DTC技术有可能成为满足这一新兴需求的有力工具，因为它能够将有机废物分解为最基本的元素和有价值的部分，同时产生自己的能量。这种可持续的过程可以中和几乎所有的有机污染物，并将有机材料转化为可回收的无机元素，如磷和氨。为了充分发挥该技术的潜力，DTC将与克兰菲尔德大学合作，利用最新知识进行详细的工艺建模、技术经济分析和设计审查。这对于优化工艺性能和开发用于现场试验的商业设施的CAPEX至关重要。

The UN through its 2020-2030 "decade of action" has highlighted desperate need to 1) reduce levels of CO2 in the atmosphere to avoid serious impacts on climate, 2) improve sustainability and reuse of materials across all areas of society. Organic materials (biological and synthetic) and wastes have a huge potential to support with dealing with this challenge. Organic materials combining carbon and inorganic materials (e.g., phosphates) are vital for global supply chains from the food we eat, medicines we take, through to industrial chemicals and fuels.While these materials are vital to the global economy. Many of these materials are short lived, the wastes of which led to ~10% of global emissions and components such as nutrients and pharmaceutical by-products causing increasing levels of environmental pollution (e.g., water pollution from synthetic hormones and eutrophication phosphates). As the global population continues to grow the need for these materials will only increase as will the associated environmental impacts. Also vital is to secure the supply of feedstocks required to efficiently produce these materials such as phosphates which are vital for the production of fertilisers, which due to intensive use is a globally depleted resource past peek supply.An important opportunity has arisen to use smart design to link these residues and wastes to the sustainable production of the inputs required by industry. To do this requires new technologies to process this mounting of potentially polluting material to recover the valuable inorganic components and prevent them becoming pollutants, for example phosphates are a globally depleted resource key to the production of fertilisers.DCTs technology can take organic wastes and other materials, processing them to recover the valuable materials for industry, while carrying out the equally important task of mitigating the associated environmental pollution and emissions.DTC technology has the potential to be a powerful tool for this emerging need, through its ability to render down organic wastes to their most basic elements and valuable fractions, while generating its own energy. This sustainable process can neutralise almost any organic pollutants and convert organic materials into recyclable inorganic elements such as phosphorus and ammonia. In order to fully realise the potential of the technology DTC will work with Cranfield university to carry out detailed process modelling, and techno-economic analysis and design reviews using the latest knowledge. This is vital to optimise process performance and CAPEX a head of developing a commercial facility for field trials.