UKRI Interdisciplinary Centre for Circular Chemical Economy

2016年，英国化工行业年营业额超过320亿GB，直接就业9.9万人。该中心的愿景是将英国的化学工业转变为独立于化石、有利于气候和环境友好的循环化学经济。我们方案的总体新颖性是开发了一个具有深度循环干预的全部门解决方案，通过创建烯烃的循环资源流-所有有机化学品生产的70%的原材料。我们的整个系统方法将包括生产、运输/分销、炼油厂/下游、使用和废物回收等关键部门，以减少对化石的依赖，提高整个流程工业的生产率和可持续性。中心将建立一个跨学科平台，将科学/工程领域的协同创新与社会科学家结合起来，了解整个系统的工业共生和市场/政策/激励设计。核心研究方案围绕三个相互关联的主题组织：(1)关键技术，以实现从替代/再循环废物流中生产烯烃，并通过先进的催化工艺设计更多可重复使用的化学品；(2)过程集成、整个系统分析和价值链评估；以及(3)政策、社会和金融。通过对供应链上的技术解决方案进行详细的流程建模、经济分析和环境评估，将加快理解、提供机会和最佳解决方案，以实现烯烃衍生资源流动的循环。这些活动涉及所有受影响的群体，包括当地中小企业和下游用户，并将为政策制定者提供证据和数据。该中心将通过社会研究和有组织的活动与用户接触，并利用与化学系统有关的消费者/企业行为变化，以创新技术建立可持续的社区和社会。

The UK chemical sector has an annual turnover of over £32 billion with 99,000 direct jobs in 2016. The Centre's vision is to transform the UK's chemical industry into a fossil-independent, climate-positive and environmentally-friendly circular chemical economy. The overall novelty of our programme is the development of a sector-wide solution with deep circularity interventions, by creating a circular resources flow of olefin-the raw material for 70% of all organic chemical production. Our whole system approach will include key sectors of production, transportation/distribution, refinery/downstream, use and waste recycling, to reduce fossil reliance and improve productivity and sustainability of the whole process industry.The Centre will generate a cross-disciplinary platform combining synergistic innovations in science/engineering with social scientists to comprehend the whole system industrial symbiosis and market/policy/incentive design. The Core Research Programme is organised around three interconnected themes: (1) Key technologies to enable olefin production from alternative/recycling wastes streams and design more reusable chemicals via advanced catalytic processes; (2) Process integration, whole system analysis and value chain evaluation, and (3) Policy, society and finance. Through detailed process modelling, economic analysis and environmental assessment of technology solutions along the supply chain, accelerated understanding, opportunities and optimum solutions to achieve circularity of olefin-derived resources flow will be attained. These activities are embedded with stakeholders involving all affected groups, including local SMEs and downstream users, and will provide evidence and data for policymakers.The Centre will engage with users through social studies and organised events, and exploit consumer/business behavioural change related to chemical systems enabling a sustainable community and society with innovative technologies.