Low carbon jet fuel through integration of novel technologies for co-valorisation of CO2 and biomass

必须开发低碳航空燃料，以帮助英国过渡到低碳未来，同时满足能源供应的安全。这项多学科的提案联合了赫里奥特-瓦特大学、阿斯顿大学、牛津大学和爱丁堡大学的顶尖工程师和科学家，通过整合二氧化碳(CO2)和生物质的共价化新技术，实现了我们生产低碳喷气燃料的愿景。我们的项目旨在利用废弃的农林生物质和捕获的二氧化碳，利用可再生能源生产低碳合成航空喷气燃料。将采用化学(自下而上的方法来开发新型催化剂和电极)和工程(自上而下的方法来调整影响反应条件的热量和质量传输参数)相结合的方法来生产高选择性和高效的喷气燃料。流程整合和生命周期分析将通过将新开发的流程纳入更大的领域(例如各种碳源选择)来进行，并调查生物质和二氧化碳到喷气燃料增值链的社会/政治/经济价值。

Low-carbon aviation fuels must be developed to help the UK to transition to a low carbon future, whilst meeting security of energy supply. This multidisciplinary proposal unites leading engineers and scientists from the Universities of Heriot-Watt, Aston, Oxford and University of Edinburgh to realise our vision of production of low carbon jet fuels through the integration of novel technologies for co-valorisation of carbon dioxide (CO2) and biomass. Our project aims to produce low carbon synthetic aviation jet fuel using renewable energy from waste agricultural and forestry biomass and captured CO2. An integrated chemistry (bottom-up method to develop novel catalysts and electrodes) and engineering (top-down method to tailor heat and mass transport parameters influencing reaction conditions) approach will be implemented towards high selective and efficient jet fuel production. Process integration and life cycle analysis will be performed by incorporating the newly developed process into a greater domain (e.g. various options of carbon sources), and to investigate the social/political/economic valuation of the biomass and CO2 to jet fuel value added chain.