Decarbonising The Acrylic Value Chain Via Resource Circularity

英国在亚克力技术方面长期处于世界领先地位。英国在丙烯酸技术方面的创新始于20世纪30年代世界上第一个商业化生产过程。丙烯酸材料最早的主要应用是在第二次世界大战期间英国战斗机上用丙烯酸玻璃代替玻璃，从而减轻了重量，并显著提高了飞行员被弹片打伤时的生存能力。Lucite在英国的业务包括威尔顿研究中心屡获殊荣的技术开发能力，以及比灵厄姆和牛顿艾克里夫的世界级制造资产。作为耐用材料，丙烯酸聚合物具有许多优点，包括优异的光学性能、耐风化性、赋予表面涂层高性能、生物相容性以及通过解聚回收的机会。市场规模的增加是由于对丙烯酸玻璃的需求增加和新应用数量的扩大。鉴于pMMA的多功能性，到2025年，年度市场将超过80亿美元，以每年8-9%的速度增长。随着需求的持续增长，提高可持续性和进一步减少废物的需求是至关重要的。2012年，国际能源署（International Energy Agency）将甲基丙烯酸指定为可持续制造bbb设计的一个值得注意的目标。因此，通过英国在全球舞台上的技术领先地位，存在着一个非凡的机会，可以使这条价值链脱碳。繁荣伙伴关系的两个主要研究挑战是：(1)通过资源循环使丙烯酸树脂价值链脱碳。(2)通过英格兰东北部21世纪的卓越制造业，保持并扩大英国在该领域的技术和制造业领导地位。英国在丙烯酸技术方面的这些进步将具有国家和全球部署能力，代表了散装化学品行业通过资源循环实现脱碳的一流示范。考虑到预期的全球碳强度降低符合(1)英国到2050年实现净零碳排放的立法，(2)英国的清洁增长大挑战，(3)UKRI的工业战略政策促进脱碳，通过资源循环和使用可持续聚合物催化增长，这一繁荣伙伴关系将框架和催化进一步的知识交流。

The UK has long held a world-leading capability in acrylic technology. UK innovation in acrylic technology started with the world's first commercial production process in the 1930s. The earliest major application of acrylic materials was the substitution of glass with acrylic glazing in British World War II fighter planes, resulting in lighter weight and a significant improvement to pilot survivability when wounded by shrapnel. Lucite's UK presence includes an award-winning technology development capability at the Wilton Research Centre, and world scale manufacturing assets at Billingham and Newton Aycliffe. As durable materials, acrylic polymers have numerous advantageous properties, including excellent optical properties, resistance to weathering, imparting high performance to surface coatings, bio-compatibility, and the opportunity of recycling via depolymerisation. The increasing market size is due to both the heightened demand for acrylic glass and the expanding number of new applications. Given pMMA's versatility, the annual market will exceed $8 billion US dollars by 2025, growing at a rate of 8-9% per year. As demand continues to grow, the need for increased sustainability and fur-ther waste reductions is paramount. In 2012, the International Energy Agency designated meth-acrylic acid as a noteworthy target for the design of sustainable manufacturing [5]. Therefore, an extraordinary opportunity exists to decarbonise this value chain though UK technology leadership spanning the global stage. The two principal research challenges of the Prosperity Partnership are:(1) Decarbonise the acrylics value chain through resource circularity. (2) Maintain and extend the UK's technical and manufacturing leadership in this sector through 21st century manufacturing excellence in the North East of England. These UK advances in acrylic technology will have both national and global deployment capability, representing a first in class demonstration of decarbonisation through resource circularity in the bulk chemicals sector. This Prosperity Partnership will frame and catalyse further knowledge exchange, given that the anticipated global reduction in carbon intensity aligns with (1) UK legislation on attaining net zero carbon emissions by 2050, (2) the UK's Clean Growth grand challenge and (3) UKRI's Industrial Strategy policy of promoting decarbonisation, catalysing growth via resource circularity and the use of sustainable polymers.