Sustainable Glass Industry with Fuel-Flexible Technology (GIFFT)

欧洲在玻璃制造方面处于世界领先地位，这是一个排放大量二氧化碳的高能源密集型行业。在过去的一个世纪里，生产工艺得到了改进，但现在它们正在接近极限。Gifft的目标是开发一种可持续、混合和生物燃料的灵活热生产技术和工艺，通过有效利用等离子辅助燃烧和气化系统，将其整合到工业玻璃制造中。将利用生物质/废物和过剩或廉价的可再生电力生产合成气，开发一种用于玻璃制造的综合热生产技术和工艺，这将有助于欧洲在将生物能源整合到工业环境中的进步和领先地位。Gifft随后将在工业相关环境中开发和验证具有新型电子气化功能的燃料柔性气流床气化炉(EFG)和用于玻璃熔窑混合操作的新型等离子辅助燃料柔性气体燃烧器。这将有助于使原料多样化，改善生物能源的技术性能，降低成本，确保更好的循环性和更多地使用可再生能源。还将对该技术的技术经济可行性和环境影响进行评估，以确认Gifft有助于提高生物质燃烧和气化以及生物能源价值链的可持续性，同时减少排放。

Europe is the world leader in glass making, a highly energy-intensive industry that emits high amounts of CO2. The past century has seen improvements in the production process, but they are now approaching their limits. The objective of GIFFT is to develop a sustainable, hybrid, and biofuel flexible heat production technology and process that can be integrated into industrial glass manufacturing through efficient use of plasma-assisted combustion and gasification systems. An integrated heat production technology and process for glass manufacturing will be developed utilising biomass/waste and excess or cheap renewable electricity for syngas production, what will contribute to Europe’s progress and leadership for bioenergy integration into industrial settings. GIFFT will then develop and validate in an industrially relevant environment a fuel flexible entrained flow gasifier (EFG) with a novel e-gasification function and a new plasma-assisted fuel flexible gas burner for hybrid operation in glass furnaces. This will help diversify feedstock and improve the technological performance as well as cost reduction of bioenergy, ensuring a better circularity and increased use of renewables. The techno-economic feasibility and environmental impact of the technology will also be assessed to confirm that GIFFT contributes to an increased sustainability of biomass combustion and gasification and bioenergy value chains while reducing emissions