Enzymatic Biofuel Cells for Renewable Energy Generation in Wastewater Treatment

**问题**气候变化威胁英国和世界生态系统和经济，带来大规模干旱、饥荒、大规模灭绝和大规模贫困等后果。迫切需要防止全球平均气温比工业化前水平上升1.5摄氏度以上。这导致了政府支持的战略，即到2030年减少45%的温室气体排放，到2050年实现碳中和。由于气候变化，威尔士尤其面临洪水泛滥的风险，并且比大多数英国人采取了更雄心勃勃的净零排放目标。英国有超过7000家水处理厂，它们平均每年消耗2800GWh的能源，导致170万吨二氧化碳当量排放。水务公司需要大幅减少第2类排放，以实现脱碳目标。现有的可再生能源技术，如厌氧消化器和风力涡轮机，价格昂贵，难以维护，而且需要大片土地。此外，当前的可再生能源解决方案，即使是组合在一起，通常也无助于实现对从电网购买的基于化石燃料的能源的20%-50%以上的独立性。这意味着需要新的、经济的可再生能源解决方案来帮助废水处理公司和其他公司实现能源自给自足。**解决方案*管道有机设备有限公司与这笔赠款相关的项目是一个原型可再生能源设备，用于向客户演示。我们的原型代表了一种新的产品类别，它可以从液体有机废物中发电，例如在废水处理过程中可以找到。**由于简单、可扩展的制造方法，该产品可以快速生产和部署。它是一种微创、即插即用的解决方案，很容易安装在现有的基础设施中，而且不需要其他类别的可再生能源的大量土地和财务投资。它在设计和应用方面都是创新的，可以适应许多操作环境，包括啤酒厂、乳制品和软饮料。作为该项目的结果，废水处理操作原型的展示将使管道有机公司获得行业信心，并寻求进一步的资金，以扩大可再生能源解决方案的生产和部署。我们预计，这一研发项目将导致技术准备级别5的早期运营原型，并将导致大型废水处理公司的试点项目。我们的目标是利用我们的成功来获得废水行业的倡导者和运营数据，之后我们的产品范围和应用可以扩展到更多的目标行业。

**The Problem**Climate change threatens UK and world ecosystems and economies with consequences such as large-scale drought, famine, mass extinction and mass poverty. There is an urgent need to prevent average global temperatures from rising more than 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels. This has led to government-backed strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050\. Wales is especially at risk of flooding due to climate change and has adopted more ambitious Net Zero targets than most of the UK.Over 7000 water treatment plants exist in the UK, which consume on average 2800 GWh of energy per year, resulting in 1.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions. Water companies need to significantly reduce their Scope 2 emissions to achieve decarbonisation goals. Existing renewable energy technologies such as anaerobic digesters and wind turbines are expensive, difficult to maintain, and require large plots of land. Moreover, current renewables solutions, even in combination, usually do not help achieve more than 20-50% independence from fossil fuel-based energy purchased from the grid. This means that new, economical renewable energy solutions are required to help wastewater and other companies achieve energy self-sufficiency.**The Solution****Pipeline Organics Ltd's project relative to this grant is a prototype renewable energy device for demonstration to customers. Our prototype represents a new class of product which generates electricity from liquid organic waste, such as can be found in the wastewater treatment process.** The product can be rapidly produced and deployed due to simple, scalable manufacturing methods. It is a minimally invasive, plug-and-play solution that is easy to install in existing infrastructure, and does not require the large land and financial investments of other classes of renewables. It is innovative in its design and application, and can be adapted to many operational environments, including brewery, dairy and soft drinks. Demonstration of the operational prototype in wastewater treatment as a result of this project will allow Pipeline Organics to gain industry confidence and seek further funding to scale up renewable energy solution production and deployment. We envision that this R&D project to lead to an early operational prototype at Technological Readiness Level 5 will lead to pilot projects with large wastewater treatment companies. Our ambition is to use our success to gain advocates and operational data in the wastewater industry, after which our product's scope and application can be expanded to additional target industries.