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Informed by a whole-systems approach, IDRIC’s research programme addresses key cross-cutting challenges of industrial decarbonisation.

Research Programme

IDRIC’s research projects have been grouped into nine Multidisciplinary Integrated Programmes (MIPs), each addressing a key challenge or pathway for industrial decarbonisation.

IDRIC’s Research Approach
IA 3.1: Delivering a place-based just transition in industrial clusters
MIP 1.1 An integrated energy system planning tool for net zero industrial clusters
MIP 1.1 An integrated energy system planning tool for net zero industrial clusters
MIP 1.2 Industrial clusters: evaluating carbon dioxide underground in bunter closures (ICECUBE)
MIP 1.2 Industrial clusters: evaluating carbon dioxide underground in bunter closures (ICECUBE)
MIP 1.3 Life cycle analysis framework for industrial decarbonisation
MIP 1.3 Life cycle analysis framework for industrial decarbonisation
MIP 1.4 Smart policy and governance for industrial decarbonisation
MIP 1.4 Smart policy and governance for industrial decarbonisation
MIP 1.5 Understanding public responses to industrial decarbonisation in insecure times
MIP 1.5 Understanding public responses to industrial decarbonisation in insecure times
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MIP 1.6 Unintended consequences? Life cycle comparison of UK industrial decarbonisation pathways
MIP 1.7 An integrated framework for levelled up & low carbon industrial clusters
MIP 2.1 Development of an open-source toolkit to design and evaluate the performance of low carbon infrastructure for industrial clusters
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MIP 2.2 Carbon dioxide - ports to pipelines
MIP 2.3 Systems, infrastructure and technologies for providing low-carbon fuels
MIP 2.3 Systems, infrastructure and technologies for providing low-carbon fuels
Stakeholders
MIP 2.4 Just transitions for industrial decarbonisation in the UK
MIP 2.5 A new seismic hazard model to support decarbonisation in offshore regions around the United Kingdom
MIP 2.6 Integrated Assessment of BECCS in context: environmental, policy, regulatory and social factors
MIP 3.1 A Smart Decision Modelling (SDM) tool for industrial cluster decarbonisation
MIP 3.1 A Smart Decision Modelling (SDM) tool for industrial cluster decarbonisation
MIP 3.2 Hydrogen storage and transport networks for net-zero industrial clusters
MIP 3.2 Hydrogen storage and transport networks for net-zero industrial clusters
MIP 3.3 Risk in decarbonisation finance
MIP 3.3 Risk in decarbonisation finance
MIP 3.4: Net zero sense of place
MIP 3.4: Net zero sense of place
MIP 3.5 Good plant design for measurement of CO2‚ in carbon capture and storage applications
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MIP 3.6 Opportunities in Financing the Green Transition
MIP 4.1 Mobile energy stored as heat
MIP 4.1 Mobile energy stored as heat
MIP 4.2 A flexibly integrated solution for gas compression and industrial thermal processing decarbonisation
MIP 4.2 A flexibly integrated solution for gas compression and industrial thermal processing decarbonisation
MIP 4.3 The politics of industrial decarbonisation policy
MIP 4.3 The politics of industrial decarbonisation policy
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MIP 4.4 Quantification of the UK CO2 storage export potential to drive down the cost of CCS
MIP 4.5 CPD module development on Industrial heating and cooling
MIP 5.1 Ammonia and hydrogen use for industrial heat & power generation
MIP 5.2 Volatile Fatty Acids (VFA) Factory for Decarbonisation of Wastes
MIP 5.2 Volatile Fatty Acids (VFA) Factory for Decarbonisation of Wastes
MIP 5.3 Solid Oxide Electrolysis (SOE) for carbon dioxide utilisation
MIP 5.3 Solid Oxide Electrolysis (SOE) for carbon dioxide utilisation
MIP 5.4 Sustainable Electro-Synthesis of Chemical Energy Vectors in Industrial Clusters
MIP 5.4 Sustainable Electro-Synthesis of Chemical Energy Vectors in Industrial Clusters
MIP 5.5 The political economy of Sunset vs. Sunrise industry strategies
MIP 5.6 VFA to PHA: Decarbonisation - A Route to Sustainable Plastics
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MIP 5.7 Accelerating the Scale-up of Next-Generation Fuels from CO2
MIP 6.1. Accelerating the deployment of cost-competitive advanced carbon capture technologies for industrial decarbonisation
MIP 6.2 Thermodynamic models for application in industrial decarbonisation
MIP 6.2 Thermodynamic models for application in industrial decarbonisation
MIP 6.3. Advanced multitemporal modelling and optimisation of carbon dioxode transport and storage networks
MIP 6.3. Advanced multitemporal modelling and optimisation of carbon dioxode transport and storage networks
MIP 6.4. Carbon Dioxide Stored 2.0 - Next generation of the UK’s carbon dioxide storage database
MIP 6.4. Carbon Dioxide Stored 2.0 - Next generation of the UK’s carbon dioxide storage database
Research Programmes
MIP 6.5 Protective space and social licence to operate industrial decarbonisation
MIP 6.6 Process Intensification of CO2 Capture with Bioenergy Using Rotating Packed Bed
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MIP 6.7 Algae-based carbon capture and utilisation for UK cluster decarbonisation
MIP 6.8 AMICUS: Analysis Methods for Improved Capture Using Solvents
MIP 7.2. Electrolysis for green hydrogen and co-produced chemicals at scale
MIP 7.1. Large-scale deployment of a hydrogen energy system
MIP 7.2. Electrolysis for green hydrogen and co-produced chemicals at scale
MIP 7.2. Electrolysis for green hydrogen and co-produced chemicals at scale
MIP 7.3 Integration of co-produced oxygen from electrolysis to enable deep decarbonisation
MIP 7.3 Integration of co-produced oxygen from electrolysis to enable deep decarbonisation
MIP 7.4. Enabling hydrogen storage near industrial clusters
MIP 7.4. Enabling hydrogen storage near industrial clusters
MIP 7.5 Reducing CO2 emissions with improved hydrogen recovery processes
MIP 7.5 Reducing carbon dioxide emissions with improved hydrogen recovery processes
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MIP 7.6 Low-carbon reorientation in steel, oil refining and chemical industries
MIP 7.7 Enabling low carbon fuel technology deployment for power and high-temperature heat across the clusters
MIP 7.8 Enabling hydrogen storage near industrial clusters (Phase 2): enhancing confidence in porous rock storage
MIP 8.1 To transform bio CCU from low volume conversion to speciality products into a Mtonne process
MIP 8.1 To transform bio CCU from low volume conversion to speciality products into a Mtonne process
MIP 8.2 Industrial NETs using alkaline materials
MIP 8.2 Industrial NETs using alkaline materials
MIP 8.3 BECCS-to-sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)
MIP 8.4 Where to locate new bioenergy with carbon capture & storage? A natural capital approach
MIP 8.4 Where to locate new bioenergy with carbon capture and storage? A natural capital approach
MIP 8.5 Bio-Balance
MIP 8.5 Bio-Balance
MIP 8.6 Integrated design and optimisation for nationwide deployment of direct air capture units
MIP 8.7 Up-scaling on-site CO2 utilisation for decarbonisation of dispersed cement sector: a novel route to reliable net-zero concretes
Equality Diversity & Inclusion
MIP 8.8 Creating a Carbon Framework for a decarbonised circular economy
MIP 9.1 Learning from international experience in decarbonising industrial clusters
MIP 9.1 Learning from international experience in decarbonising industrial clusters
MIP 9.2 Industrial clusters and whole energy system modelling
MIP 9.2 Industrial clusters and whole energy system modelling
MIP 9.3 Knowledge transfer and innovation diffusion
MIP 9.3 Knowledge transfer and innovation diffusion
MIP 9.4 Development of competence, skills and training for the transition to hydrogen
MIP 9.5 Enabling Skills for the Industrial Decarbonisation Supply Chain
MIP 9.6 Diversity to Decarbonise: Promoting EDI in the future workforce
MIP 9.7 Labour market and other wider economy challenges in decarbonising the UK’s industry clusters (LAB CLUSTER)

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