Sustainable Biological and Synthetic Pathways for the Production of Future Automotive Energy Storage Media

该项目的目的是扩大对当前和未来替代燃料市场的了解，并在此过程中引导捷豹路虎（JLR）未来的储能技术路线图。一个不断增长的市场正在为可持续燃料发展，随着寻找化石产品替代品的需求增长，新的工艺和产品正在开发中。因此，该项目的目标是将未来的长期推进技术与理想的能源供应途径相结合，并提供识别和排除不可持续或低效的技术所需的情报。生物燃料的使用现在以纯净和稀释的形式广泛使用，该行业的增长已经证明了一些陷阱，如可扩展性，水的使用和对食物链的负面影响。任何潜在的未来燃料的目标都是复杂的，必须满足多种技术、经济、环境和社会标准。该项目将分析当前和未来的生物和合成工艺，并从基本燃料质量、全球变暖潜势和其他标准认可的生命周期评估（LCA）类别的角度评估最终候选燃料及其工艺。从而代表了整体的环境责任。它将提供产品和工艺的排名，并提供支持性的主观评价。该项目将分为以下目标：-制定燃料和工艺的目录，总结每个关键标准。对商定数量的这些燃料和工艺进行简化的归因LCA。使用LCA数据确定支持可持续未来产品的关键原料和途径。研究上一阶段确定的更有前途的过程或过程组，重点关注更全面的LCA和最终使用场景。审查选定的流程以及国家和国际范围内的地理位置如何影响整体可持续性绩效和成本权衡。创建可用于各种JLR模型的相关数据，以预测全球不同生物，合成和常规燃料使用场景的LCA影响。对最有希望的选择的更广泛影响进行相应的LCA。了解所选候选产品对规定的汽车最终用途的适用性，如内燃机、涡轮机、重整器和燃料电池用途。

The aim of this project is to expand knowledge of the current and future alternative fuels market, and in doing so steer the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) future energy storage technology roadmap. A growing market is developing for sustainable fuels, and as the need grows to find replacements for fossil based products, new processes and products are being developed. The objective of the project is therefore to align long-term future propulsion technologies with ideal energy supply pathways, and to provide intelligence required to identify and dismiss unsustainable or inefficient ones.Biofuel use is now widespread in both pure and dilute form, and the growth of this industry has demonstrated some of the pitfalls such as scalability, water use, and negative impact on the food chain. The goals for any potential future fuels are complex, and must satisfy multiple technical, economic, environmental and social criteria.This project will analyse current and future biological and synthetic processes, and evaluate the end candidates and their processes from perspectives of fundamental fuel quality, global warming potential and other standard recognised Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) categories, and thus a representation of the overall environmental responsibility. It will deliver a ranking of products and processes, with supporting subjective evaluation.The project will break down into the following objectives:- Develop a catalogue of fuels and processes, summarising key criteria for each.- Undertake streamlined attributional LCA on an agreed number of these fuels and processes.- Using the LCA data identify key feed-stocks and pathways that support sustainable future products.- Study the more promising processes or groups of processes identified during the previous phase, focusing on fuller LCA and end use scenarios.- Review a selection of processes and how geographical location on a national and international scale can affect overall sustainability performance and cost trade-off.- Create relevant data that can be used in various JLR models to predict the LCA impact of different worldwide bio, synthetic and conventional fuel use scenarios.- Undertake consequential LCA of the wider impact of the most promising options.- Understand the suitability of selected candidates for prescribed automotive end use scenarios such as Internal Combustion Engine, Turbine, Reformers and Fuel Cells use.