Supergen Bioenergy Hub 2018

生物质是一种植物或木质材料，在其生长过程中通过光合作用从大气中吸收二氧化碳。当生物质被用来生产生物能源时，它会向大气中释放与生长过程中所吸收的相同数量的二氧化碳。因此，只要生物量生长在接近释放的时间段内，就不会有长期大气CO2浓度的净增加。然而，处理和使用生物质的某些方面可能会产生额外的温室气体排放，这需要考虑到，鉴于英国正在努力减少所有的碳排放，我们必须通过最大化生产和使用真正可持续的资源以及开发有效的预处理和转换技术来有效利用我们的生物质资源。同样重要的是，我们要充分利用可持续生物质资源，并充分了解实施的更广泛影响和成本。该项目汇集了英国领先的生物能源研究小组，开发可持续的生物能源系统，支持英国向可负担、有弹性、低碳能源的未来过渡。我们将综合之前关于土地和原料可用性的工作，以评估英国生物能源的现实潜在资源，并研究可以通过提供生态系统效益和生物质资源来支持英国农业的新作物。我们将在高效转换选项中测试不同原料的性能，并开发新技术，以提高生物能源系统的资源效率，特别是在小规模中。我们将评估利用生物质供热、发电、运输燃料或化学品的影响，为实业家和政策制定者提供独立、权威的信息来指导决策。我们将评估生物能源在英国未来可持续能源结构中所占比例的潜力，同时考虑到这一过程对环境、经济和社会的影响。我们将与实业家和决策者合作，确保我们的工作符合他们的需求，并反映可实现的执行标准。我们将与行业和政策团体广泛分享我们的研究成果，并通过我们的网站、特别出版物、传统媒体和社交媒体，以及为公众参与量身定制的活动，使社会利益相关者能够访问我们的研究成果。

Biomass is plant or woody material that during its growth has absorbed CO2 from the atmosphere through photosynthesis . When the biomass is used to produce bioenergy it re-releases to atmosphere the same amount of CO2 as was sequestered during growth. Therefore, as long as biomass growth is close in time period to release there is no net addition to the long term atmospheric CO2 concentration. However, some aspects of processing and using the biomass may generate additional greenhouse gas emissions that need to be accounted for and, given that the UK is trying to decrease all carbon emissions it is important that we make efficient use of our biomass resource by maximizing the production and use of truly sustainable resource and developing efficient pre-treatment and conversion technologies. It is also important that we make the best use of the sustainable biomass resource and fully understand the wider impact and costs of implementation. This project brings together leading UK bioenergy research groups to develop sustainable bioenergy systems that support the UK's transition to an affordable, resilient, low-carbon energy future. We will synthesize previous work on land and feedstock availability to assess the realistic potential resource for UK bioenergy and examine new crops that could support UK farming by delivering ecosystem benefits as well as biomass resource. We will test the performance of different feedstocks in high efficiency conversion options and develop new techniques which will improve resource efficiency in bioenergy systems, especially at small scale. We will evaluate the impact of using biomass for heat, electricity, transport fuels or chemicals to provide independent, authoritative information to guide decision making by industrialists and policy makers. We will assess the potential for bioenergy to contribute a proportion of the UK's future sustainable energy mix, taking into account the environmental, economic and social impacts of the processes.We will work with industrialists and policy makers to ensure that our work is relevant to their needs and reflects achievable implementation standards. We will share our findings in our research work widely with the industry and policy communities and make it accessible to societal stakeholders on our website, via special publications, in the conventional and on social media and with tailored events for public engagement.