Multi-site cement industry low carbon fuel implementation and supply chain assessment

水泥和混凝土行业在加拿大的基础设施和绿色建筑雄心中发挥着越来越重要的作用。虽然该行业是不断增长的清洁经济的强大和创新贡献者，但该行业也是二氧化碳的主要排放者。该项目的总体目标是开发新的燃料途径（考虑到整个供应链），以降低水泥行业的碳足迹。这包括通过测量全规模商业操作下燃烧时的碳排放和其他空气排放来确认环境效益，通过了解流体动力学来优化燃烧过程，为区域可行的低碳燃料制定燃烧指南，并进行生命周期评估和情景分析，以确保燃料途径以高效和低成本的方式实现环境效益，在一系列未来政策和市场条件下的有效途径。该项目的目标是到2020年在拉法基设施中实现30%的低碳燃料共燃，然后确定技术途径，使其能够实现与水泥生产相关的更低的碳足迹。高素质的人员将在国际层面上对数值建模，燃烧科学，生命周期评估和能源系统评估领域做出原创性贡献。他们将接受最新研究方法的培训，并获得数据收集和技术评估方面的技能，同时开发经验真实的世界，使用建模软件的实践研究项目，创建软件工具，以及统计和政策分析。

The cement and concrete industries play an important and growing role in Canada's infrastructure and green building ambitions. While the industry is a strong and innovative contributor to a growing clean economy, the industry is also a large emitter of carbon dioxide. The overall objective of this project is the development of new fuel pathways (considering the full supply chain) to lower the carbon footprint of the cement industry. This includes confirmation of the environmental benefits by measuring emissions of carbon, and other air emissions at combustion under full scale commercial operations, optimizing the process of combustion by understanding the fluid dynamics, developing a combustion guide for regionally viable low carbon fuels as well as life cycleassessment and scenario analysis to ensure that the fuel pathways deliver the environmental benefits in efficient and cost-effective ways under a range of future policy and market conditions. This project is aimed at reaching 30% co-fire at the Lafarge facilities with lower carbon fuels by 2020 and then identifying technology pathways that will make it possible to achieve even lower carbon footprints associated with cement production. Highly Qualified Personnel will make original contributions to the field of numerical modelling, combustion science, life cycle assessment and energy system assessment at an international level. They will be trained in the latest research methods, and acquire skills in data collection and technology assessment, while developing experience real world, hands-on research projects using modelling software, creating software tools, and statistical and policy analysis.