UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Community Network+ (UKCCSRC 2022)

英国的CCS活动正出现前所未有的增长，计划到2030年将从目前的零增加到每年捕获和储存1000万吨二氧化碳，然后是20年，每年平均增长10-15%，到2050年每年提供约1亿吨二氧化碳，以支持英国的净零目标。UKCCS研究中心作为一个包容和开放的虚拟国家中心，其网络帮助启动了工业脱碳（2012年）和CCS集群（2016年）的主流英国计划，并在整个COVID疫情期间通过创新的在线活动和重点支持继续发展。该提案将为英国CCS社区提供这些服务的无缝连续性和扩展，该社区目前拥有600多名学术成员（包括ECR）和1000多个更广泛的网络链接，这些网络链接必须迅速扩展和多样化，以实现2030年的目标，并将有助于发展英国应对未来几十年同样巨大挑战的能力。我们的总体目标是保持英国在CCS领域的科学领先地位，仅次于规模更大的美国和中国，自2009年以来，EPSRC支持的包容性CCS网络的存在有助于建立，并确保通过与成功的CCS行业建立强大而专注的网络，将这一领先地位转化为英国的财富创造和商业优势。原则和规划是成功建立网络的关键。UKCCSRC 2022交付团队带来了多样化的人才和背景，包容性，开放性，科学卓越，辛勤工作和友好参与的严谨精神，并包括多年来如何规划和提供网络计划的丰富经验，活动和服务是教育，在最广泛的意义上，Network+计划将帮助英国从其世界领先的CCS和更广泛的学术界获得最大价值，将研究生产者和研究用户联系起来，主要任务有四个：1）支持英国计划在实现净零排放所需的CCS活动的全方位部署的快速增长（即从所有来源和所有形式的安全、长期储存中获取，和商业就绪状态的全部范围）使用现有的最佳科学。2）开发新的科学，以支持英国具有战略需求或优势的CCS领域的未来改进和成本降低，并帮助将其转化为财富-3）提高人员、基础设施和机构的能力，以满足CCS到2050年及以后所需的持续长期扩张。4）设计和提供开放获取的快速通道研究项目。支持实现这些目标的发展包括：a）学术成员至少增加一倍，从300人增加到600人，B）工业-由于越来越多的公司参与CCS，预计至少有100家工业参与者。政府和监管参与-继续作为值得信赖的独立专家，通过专业知识转移来支持这一关键的利益相关者群体。d）早期职业研究人员-将现有的>300名ECR计划增加一倍，e）与世界各地的CCS伙伴组织建立国际联系，f）在已建立的网络联系（1600多个）的基础上，将定期会议方案从每次会议约150个增加到约300个。g）通过媒体提高学术CCS研究的知名度，随着国家对CCS的兴趣的增长，知识共享和增强的网络存在。h）100万英镑的预算，用于为快速通道项目提供灵活的资金，公开呼吁遵循完善的程序，包括独立管理和高标准

The UK is seeing an unprecedented rise in CCS activity, with deployment planned to go from currently nothing to 10 million tonnes of CO2 captured and stored per year by 2030, followed by two decades with average growth of 10-15% per year to deliver around 100 MtCO2/yr by 2050 to underpin the UK's net-zero target. Networking by the UKCCS Research Centre, as an inclusive and open virtual national hub, has helped to start now-mainstream UK initiatives on industrial decarbonisation (2012) and CCS clusters (2016) and has continued to grow with innovative on-line activities and focused support throughout the COVID epidemic. This proposal will deliver seamless continuity and expansion of these services to a UK CCS community currently with over 600 academic members (including ECRs) and over 1000 wider network links that has to expand and diversify rapidly to deliver the 2030 targets and will also help to develop UK capacity to meet the equally-great challenges of the following decades. Our overall aim is to maintain a UK scientific lead in CCS, behind only the much larger USA and China, that the existence of an inclusive EPSRC-supported CCS network since 2009 has helped to establish, and to ensure that this lead is translated into wealth creation and commercial advantages for the UK via strong and focused networking with a successful CCS industry sector.People, principles and planning are the keys to successful networking. The UKCCSRC 2022 delivery team brings a diverse set of talents and backgrounds, a rigorous ethos of inclusivity, openness, scientific excellence, hard work and friendly engagement, and includes solid experience, over many years, of how to plan and deliver a networking programme, with activities and services that are educational, in the broadest sense, and also enjoyable and exciting.The Network+ programme will help the UK get the most value from its world-leading CCS, and wider, academic community by linking research producers and research users, with four main tasks:1) To support the rapid growth planned in UK deployment across the full range of CCS activities required for delivering net-zero (i.e. capture from all sources and all forms of secure, long-term storage, and the full range of states of commercial readiness) using the best science available.2) To develop the new science to underpin future improvements and cost reduction in areas of CCS where the UK has a strategic need or advantage and help translate this into a wealth-creating UK industry sector.3) To grow the capacity in people, infrastructure and institutions to meet the sustained long-term expansion required in CCS out to 2050 and beyond.4) To devise and deliver open-access fast-track research projects.Developments to underpin the achievement of these objectives include:a) To at least double academic membership from about 300 to 600, including many more specialists in related fields.b) Industry - because of a much wider range of companies getting engaged with CCS this is expected to rise to at least 100 industry participants.c) Government and regulation engagement - continue as trusted independent experts, with specialised knowledge transfer to support this key group of stakeholders.d) Early Career Researchers - grow existing programme of >300 ECRs to double this number, with welcoming and inclusive knowledge exchange and networks in CCS for new arrivals.e) International links with CCS partner organisations worldwide, facilitate networking and help build collaborative research activities.f) Build on established network contacts (1600+) to grow regular conference programme from ~150 per meeting to ~300.g) Higher profile for academic CCS research through media, knowledge sharing and enhanced Web presence as national interest in CCS grows.h) A £1M budget for flexible funding of fast-track projects, with open calls following well-established procedures, including independent administration and a high standar