EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Carbon Capture and Storage and Cleaner Fossil Energy

这一提议的动机是，随着亚洲经济的快速增长和发达国家页岩气的重大发现，全球对化石燃料的依赖将会增加。国际数据中心的战略愿景是发展一个世界领先的工业博士培训中心，专注于培养具有广泛的经济、社会和背景意识、具有强大的技术技能并能够在涵盖一系列知识转让、部署和政策角色的多学科团队中运作的研究领导者和下一代创新者。他们将能够分析项目的总体经济背景，并了解其社会和道德影响。这些技能将使他们能够为刺激英国行业开发下一代技术做出贡献，以减少化石燃料的温室气体排放，并最终通过增加就业和出口来改善英国的全球地位。该中心将有50多名在碳捕获和封存(CCS)和更清洁的化石能源领域的知名学者参与，为70名博士生提供这一主题的全面监督能力。它将提供一个创新的培训计划，与我们的行业合作伙伴共同创建，以满足他们的高级技能需求。工业界的支持函表明，在将要进行的研究和将产生的博士学位方面，对拟建中心的需求很大，有10家新公司愿意加入拟建中心，包括EDF Energy、西门子、中国银行林德和卡特彼勒，以及参与发电厂和CCS模拟的软件公司，如Ansys。我们目前的合作伙伴包括斗山巴布科克公司、阿尔斯通电力公司、Air Products公司、能源技术研究所(ETI)、塔塔钢铁公司、上交所、莱茵电力公司、强生马泰公司、E.ON公司、CPL工业公司、清洁煤炭有限公司和InnoSpec公司，以及电力行业的生物质和化石燃料研究联盟(BF2RA)，我们一直保持着强有力的支持。此外，我们还与最近获得能源和气候变化部(DECC)/技术战略委员会(TSB)/ETI/EC支持的CCS项目的中小企业接洽，包括CMCL Innovation、2Co Energy、PSE和C-Capture。公司积极参与研究项目，使IDC成为最有效的CDT形式，直接为英国在化石能源电力及相关行业维持强大的研发基础做出贡献，并实现DECC CCS路线图的目标，使行业能够定义符合其研发重点的项目。我们的行业合作伙伴确定的未来10-20年的主要技术挑战是：(I)实施新的、更灵活和更高效的化石燃料发电厂，以满足能源法案中电力市场改革激励措施所确认的高峰需求，包括涉及材料挑战的效率改进和最大限度地利用燃煤电厂的生物质；(Ii)为近零排放的发电厂部署商业规模的CCS，并开发降低成本的技术，包括改进第一代基于溶剂的捕获工艺，开发下一代捕获工艺，并了解杂质对二氧化碳运输和储存的影响；(I)最大限度地挖掘非常规天然气的潜力，包括页岩气、“致密”气和煤炭地下气化产生的合成气；以及(Iii)开发其他行业大幅减少二氧化碳排放的技术：钢铁制造、水泥、炼油厂、家用燃料和小型柴油发电，这些挑战与EPSRC的“CCS和更清洁的化石能源”优先领域中定义的挑战非常接近。此外，它们还涉及生物能源优先领域中定义的常规工厂的生物质燃烧，其中具体问题涉及侵蚀、腐蚀、结渣、结垢和整体供应链经济。

The motivation for this proposal is that the global reliance on fossil fuels is set to increase with the rapid growth of Asian economies and major discoveries of shale gas in developed nations. The strategic vision of the IDC is to develop a world-leading Centre for Industrial Doctoral Training focussed on delivering research leaders and next-generation innovators with broad economic, societal and contextual awareness, having strong technical skills and capable of operating in multi-disciplinary teams covering a range of knowledge transfer, deployment and policy roles. They will be able to analyse the overall economic context of projects and be aware of their social and ethical implications. These skills will enable them to contribute to stimulating UK-based industry to develop next-generation technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and ultimately improve the UK's position globally through increased jobs and exports. The Centre will involve over 50 recognised academics in carbon capture & storage (CCS) and cleaner fossil energy to provide comprehensive supervisory capacity across the theme for 70 doctoral students. It will provide an innovative training programme co-created in collaboration with our industrial partners to meet their advanced skills needs. The industrial letters of support demonstrate a strong need for the proposed Centre in terms of research to be conducted and PhDs that will be produced, with 10 new companies willing to join the proposed Centre including EDF Energy, Siemens, BOC Linde and Caterpillar, together with software companies, such as ANSYS, involved with power plant and CCS simulation. We maintain strong support from our current partners that include Doosan Babcock, Alstom Power, Air Products, the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), Tata Steel, SSE, RWE npower, Johnson Matthey, E.ON, CPL Industries, Clean Coal Ltd and Innospec, together with the Biomass & Fossil Fuels Research Alliance (BF2RA), a grouping of companies across the power sector. Further, we have engaged SMEs, including CMCL Innovation, 2Co Energy, PSE and C-Capture, that have recently received Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)/Technology Strategy Board (TSB)/ETI/EC support for CCS projects. The active involvement companies have in the research projects, make an IDC the most effective form of CDT to directly contribute to the UK maintaining a strong R&D base across the fossil energy power and allied sectors and to meet the aims of the DECC CCS Roadmap in enabling industry to define projects fitting their R&D priorities.The major technical challenges over the next 10-20 years identified by our industrial partners are: (i) implementing new, more flexible and efficient fossil fuel power plant to meet peak demand as recognised by electricity market reform incentives in the Energy Bill, with efficiency improvements involving materials challenges and maximising biomass use in coal-fired plant;(ii) deploying CCS at commercial scale for near-zero emission power plant and developing cost reduction technologies which involves improving first-generation solvent-based capture processes, developing next-generation capture processes, and understanding the impact of impurities on CO2 transport and storage; (iimaximising the potential of unconventional gas, including shale gas, 'tight' gas and syngas produced from underground coal gasification; and (iii) developing technologies for vastly reduced CO2 emissions in other industrial sectors: iron and steel making, cement, refineries, domestic fuels and small-scale diesel power generatort andThese challenges match closely those defined in EPSRC's Priority Area of 'CCS and cleaner fossil energy'. Further, they cover biomass firing in conventional plant defined in the Bioenergy Priority Area, where specific issues concern erosion, corrosion, slagging, fouling and overall supply chain economics.