Efficient Power from Fossil Energy and Carbon Capture Technologies (EPFECCT)

拟议的EngD中心的目标是培养研究领导者，以应对未来15年在实施新发电厂方面面临的重大国家和国际挑战，以更有效地使用化石能源发电，接近零排放，包括成功示范二氧化碳捕获，以及减少煤炭利用（包括炼铁）的二氧化碳排放。这些领导者将成为新一代工程师的一部分，他们将精通尖端能源研究，能够在多学科团队中运作，涵盖一系列知识转移，部署和政策角色，并具有分析其项目整体经济背景的技能，并意识到社会和道德影响。这一建议涉及与发电部门的广泛磋商，发电部门表示，在未来十年内，英国大规模化石能源发电的重大发展所需的博士研究人员人数（包括效率提高和二氧化碳捕获）保守估计为150-200人。该中心将在满足这一需求方面发挥重要作用，向有关公司提供高度相关技术领域的培训，并为未来的研究领导者提供更广泛的技能组合。此外，斗山巴布科克、阿尔斯通、E.ON、罗尔斯罗伊斯、法国电力公司、莱茵集团、苏格兰和南方能源公司（SSE）、威尔士电力公司和德拉克斯电力公司都支持这一投标，并愿意从2009年起参与拟议的中心。此外，在减少煤炭利用（包括炼铁和无烟燃料）产生的二氧化碳排放方面，这吸引了其他工业伙伴，创新的培训计划涉及许多基于社会科学和与中国的活动的独特元素，旨在确保研究工程师不仅精通尖端能源研究，而且能够操作在多学科团队中，包括一系列知识转移，部署和政策角色，以及分析项目整体经济背景和意识到社会和道德影响的能力。学术团队借鉴了诺丁汉国际领先的化石能源项目，也借鉴了伯明翰和拉夫堡的同事在高温材料，植物生命监测和能源经济学方面的互补研究。鉴于几乎所有的研究项目都将受益于使用与MEC和我们的海外合作伙伴的先进分析能力相关的工业中试规模设备，以及每年同期开展的集团活动，该培训计划被认为比DTA项目和CASE奖项提供了相当大的附加值，正如在整个发电部门对拟建中心的极高工业兴趣所证明的那样，以及其他参与减少煤炭利用二氧化碳排放的行业。

The goal of the proposed EngD Centre is to produce research leaders to tackle the major national and international challenges over the next 15 years in implementing new power plant to generate electricity more efficiently using fossil energy with near zero emissions, involving the successful demonstration of CO2 capture, and also in reducing CO2 emissions generally from coal utilisation, including iron making. These leaders will be part of the new breed of engineers that will be thoroughly versed in cutting edge energy research and capable of operating in multi-disciplinary teams, covering a range of knowledge transfer, deployment and policy roles and with the skills to analyse the overall economic context of their projects and to be aware of the social and ethical implications. This proposal has involved wide consultation with the power generation sector which has indicated that the number of doctoral researchers required in the UK for the major developments in large-scale fossil energy power generation involving efficiency improvements and CO2 capture can be estimated conservatively as 150-200 over the next ten years. The Centre will play a vital role in meeting this demand by providing training in highly relevant technological areas to the companies concerned, as well as the broader portfolio of skills required for future research leaders. Further, Doosan Babcock, Alstom, E.ON, Rolls Royce, EDF, RWE, Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), Welsh Power and Drax Power all support this bid and are willing to participate in the proposed Centre from 2009 onwards. Further, in terms of reducing CO2 emissions generally from coal utilisation, including iron making and smokeless fuel, this has drawn in other industrial partners, Corus and CPL. The innovative training programme involves a number of unique elements based around the social sciences and activities with China and is designed to ensure that the research engineers are not only thoroughly versed in cutting edge energy research but capable of operating in multi-disciplinary teams covering a range of knowledge transfer, deployment and policy roles and the ability to analyse the overall economic context of projects and to be aware of the social and ethical implications. The academic team draws upon the internationally leading fossil energy programme at Nottingham but also on colleagues at Birmingham and Loughborough for their complementary research in high temperature materials, plant life monitoring and energy economics. Given that virtually all of the research projects will benefit from using pilot-scale equipment in industry linked to the advanced analytical capabilities in the MEC and our overseas partners, together with the Group activities undertaken by the yearly cohorts, the training programme is considered to offer considerable added value over DTA project and CASE awards, as testified by the extremely high level of industrial interest in the proposed Centre across the power generation section, together with other industries involved in reducing CO2 emissions from coal utilisation.