UK National Clean Maritime Research Hub

从燃料生产和供应、零部件制造、船舶建造到港口和船舶运营等上游流程的良好价值链，2017年英国国内和国际航运分别产生5.9公吨二氧化碳和13.8公吨二氧化碳，占英国温室气体排放总量的3.4%。该部门排放氮氧化物、二氧化硫和颗粒物，严重危害人类健康和环境，特别是沿海地区的环境，大大加剧了空气污染的挑战。到2050年，全球海洋减排技术的年市场规模可能达到150亿美元。这为英国提供了大量的经济机会。交通部的清洁海运计划提供了基础设施、经济、监管和创新方面的行动路线图，涵盖高技术准备水平(TRL 3-7)。我们有真正的机会探索基础研究，超越传统的海洋工程和海军建筑，并利用英国在流体动力学、燃料、燃烧、电机和电力电子、电池和燃料电池、能源系统、数字化、管理、金融、物流、安全工程等方面的世界领先的跨部门基础研究专业知识。拟议的UK-Mares Hub是一个多学科研究联合体，将进行跨学科研究，专注于提供颠覆性解决方案，这些解决方案具有改变现有做法的切实潜力，并在2050年实现零碳未来。英国海事活动面临的挑战及其解决方案通常是常见的，但当在当地部署时，由于港口的具体情况、所支持的船只及其对供应链的依赖，这些挑战是定制的。执行工作将在很大程度上取决于当地社区、现有基础设施，以及与替代燃料的供应、分配、储存和加油、港口装卸设施脱碳和冷熨烫、整合可再生能源、减少空气污染、土地利用、提高能力和能力以及当地技能发展有关的机会和限制。通过英国港口处理的船只和货物的类型各不相同，并与几个因素有关，如地理位置、区域工商业活动和更广泛的交通联系。因此，英国马匹中心的目标是融入清洁的海洋战略，该战略能够适应基于地点的挑战，并通过新的联合创新方法提供有针对性的技术和社会经济干预。这将使研究探索主题/工作包和响应性研究基金项目活动集中在以港口为中心的情景，并评估到2030年、2040年和2050年创新和减少温室气体排放的可能性，分享整个海洋生态系统的最佳实践。一个多样化、包容性的清洁海洋网络+将确保更广泛的传播和知识吸收，以在英国港口和其他海洋活动中产生更大影响。Network+将在西南、南部、伦敦、约克郡和林肯郡、中部地区、西北、东北部、苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰协调区域活动。已经建立的清洁海洋研究伙伴关系拥有来自英国各地的充满活力的学术界、工业界和公民利益相关者成员。英国-Mares Hub将成立一个清洁海事政策股，提供专家建议和量化证据，以实现海事部门的快速脱碳。它将确保英国-马匹中心在中心活动的所有阶段与政策制定者接触。

Along the well-to-wake value chain from upstream processes associated with fuels production and supply, components manufacture, and ships construction to the operation of ports and vessels, the UK domestic and international shipping produced 5.9 Mt CO2eq and 13.8 Mt CO2eq, respectively in 2017, totalling 3.4% of the UK's overall greenhouse gas emissions. The sector contributes significantly to air pollution challenges with emissions of nitrogen oxide, sulphur dioxide and particulate matters, harming human health and the environment particularly in coastal areas. The annual global market for maritime emission reduction technologies could reach $15 billion by 2050. This provides substantial economic opportunities for the UK. The Department for Transport's Clean Maritime Plan provides a route map for action on infrastructure, economics, regulation, and innovation that covers high technology readiness level (TRL 3-7). There is a genuine opportunity to explore fundamental research and go beyond conventional marine engineering and naval architecture and exploit the UK's world-leading cross-sectoral fundamental research expertise on hydrodynamics, fuels, combustion, electric machines and power electronics, batteries and fuel cells, energy systems, digitization, management, finance, logistics, safety engineering, etc. The proposed UK-MaRes Hub is a multidisciplinary research consortium and will conduct interdisciplinary research focussed on delivering disruptive solutions which have tangible potential to transform existing practice and reach a zero-carbon future by 2050. The challenges faced by UK maritime activity and their solutions are generally common but when deployed locally, they are bespoke due to the specifics of the port, the vessels they support, and the dependencies on their supply chains. Implementation will be heavily dependent on the local community, existing infrastructure, as well as opportunities and constraints related to the supply, distribution, storage and bunkering of alternative fuels, in decarbonising port handling facilities and cold-ironing, with the integration of renewable energy, reducing air pollution, to land-use and increased capacity and capability, and the local development of skills. The types of vessels and the cargoes handled through UK ports varies and are related to several factors, such as geographical location, regional industrial and business activity and wider transport links. Therefore, UK-MaRes Hub aims to feed into a clean maritime strategy that can adapt to place-based challenges and provide targeted technical and socio-economic interventions through a novel Co-innovation Methodology. This will bring together Research Exploration themes/work packages and Responsive Research Fund project activity into focus on port-centric scenarios and assess possibilities to innovate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, 2040 and 2050 timeframes, sharing best practice across the whole maritime ecosystem.A diverse, and inclusive Clean Maritime Network+ will ensure wider dissemination and knowledge take-up to achieve greater impact across UK ports and other maritime activity. The Network+ will have coordinated regional activity in South-West, Southern, London, Yorkshire & Lincolnshire, Midlands, North-West, North-East, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. An already established Clean Maritime Research Partnership has vibrant academic, industrial, and civic stakeholder members from across the UK. UK-MaRes Hub will establish a Clean Maritime Policy Unit to provide expert advice and quantitative evidence to enable rapid decarbonisation of the maritime sector. It will ensure that the UK-MaRes Hub is engaging with policymakers at all stages of the hub activities.