Pre-commercial technology validation of a clean cold renewable syngas production plant.

英国国内石油和天然气产量正在下降，水力压裂技术在英国的部署也陷入停滞。因此，英国需要新的增强清洁能源。2014年，英国出口了260万吨垃圾衍生燃料（RDF）， 1470万吨合适的输入材料被填埋（来源：Defra）。同年，工业能源消耗为2400万吨油当量（Mtoe），其中800万吨油当量为天然气消耗（包括高炉、焦炉、城镇和天然气）。（资料来源：DECC -英国能源消耗（2015））。并不是所有的化石气体燃烧行业都使用热量来产生蒸汽，许多工业客户直接在他们的过程中使用气体，并且与他们的产品接触，因此要求气体是清洁的，以避免污染他们的产品。这些工业应用的一些例子有：石灰制造（窑）、砖瓦制造（窑）、陶器/陶器（窑）、谷物烘干、甜菜烘干。为了使这些行业蓬勃发展，英国需要一种低碳清洁的替代品。传统的RDF热解和气化产生一种热合成气，在气流中含有焦油和油。这些焦油和油阻止合成气被用于许多应用。这项新技术产生了一种清洁的合成气，将减少与国外RDF运输相关的排放；以清洁可再生合成气替代化石气体碳释放；化石气体的碳排放与将电力传输回英国的电网损失有关。2014年，英国以RDF形式出口的垃圾数量为260万吨。假设净平均电势为每吨0.6 MWh (RDF， CV约为10 MJ/kg)，则输出的潜在电能估计为1,560 GWh。在热量方面，假设热容量为每吨1.2兆瓦时，这将估计来自英国的潜在热源损失为3,120吉瓦时（来源：CIWM）。全尺寸集成原型热解和相关合成气净化系统的开发证明了生产清洁无污染物合成气的概念。通过为期12个月的试验，该项目旨在利用迄今为止取得的技术发展，并展示合成气的稳健、可重复和一致的生产，并证实其对财务模型的投入；达到筹资、规划和许可机构的技术评估人员所要求的准确程度；该项目的成功交付将使该技术实现商业化，从而使其成为能源三难解决方案的一部分。尽管还有其他大型气化工厂，但该开发项目的独特卖点之一是，该专利（原料输入到气体生成）小型模块化系统可以与天然气客户一起建造。

Domestic oil and gas production is declining and the deployment of fracking within the UK has stalled. Therefore the UK needs new enhanced sources of clean energy. In 2014, 2.6 million tonnes (Mt) of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) was exported from the UK and 14.7Mt of suitable input material was landfilled (source: Defra). In the same year, industrial energy consumption was 24Mt of oil equivalent (Mtoe), of this 8Mtoe was gas consumption (including blast furnace, coke oven, town and natural gas). (source: DECC - Energy consumption in the UK (2015)). Not all fossil gas burning industry uses the heat to generate steam, many industrial customers use the gas directly in their processes, and in contact with their product, and thus require the gas to be clean to avoid contaminating their product. Examples of some of these industrial applications would be; lime manufacture (kilns), brickwork manufacture (kilns), earthenware / potteries (kilns), grain drying and sugar beet drying. To enable these industries to prosper, a UK sourced low carbon clean alternative is needed. Conventional pyrolysis and gasification of RDF produces a hot syngas that has tars and oils contained within the gas stream. These tars and oils prevent the syngas being used for many applications. This new technology produces a clean syngas which will reduce: emissions associated with the transportation of RDF abroad; the fossil gas carbon release with the substitution of the clean renewable syngas; the fossil gas carbon emissions associated with electrical network losses in transmitting the power generated back to the UK. The amount of waste exported from UK as RDF in 2014 was 2.6Mt. Assuming a net average electrical potential of 0.6 MWh per tonne (RDF with a CV around 10 MJ/kg) provides an estimate of 1,560 GWh of potential electrical energy exported. In heat terms, assuming a thermal capacity of 1.2 MWh per tonne, this would estimate a loss of potential heat source from England of 3,120 GWh (source: CIWM). The development of the full scale integrated prototype pyrolysis and associated syngas clean-up system has demonstrated the concept of producing a clean contaminant free syngas. Through a 12 mth trial this project aims to exploit the technology development achieved to-date, and to demonstrate the robust, repeatable, and consistent production of syngas and substantiate the inputs to a financial model; to a degree of accuracy that technical assessors for funding, planning and permitting bodies will require; successful delivery of the project will enable the technology's commercialisation which will enable it to be part of the energy trilemma solution. Although there are other large gasification plants, one of the unique selling points of this development is that this patented (feed input to gas generation) small scale modular system can be built alongside the gas customer.