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

Research Programme

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A green industrial future through research and innovation

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

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 CO₂ - 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

Green Finance

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 dioxide 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. CO₂Stored 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 CO₂ 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

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 9.5 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)

FF 1-1 High-efficiency green hydrogen production and compression for industrial decarbonisation

FF 1-5 Ammonium salts formation in impure CO₂ streams

FF 1-6 Visual intelligence and industrial decarbonisation in South Wales

FF 1-8 Novel chemical strategies for the conversion of industrial derived CO₂ to value chemicals

FF 1-9 Towards A Sustainable Phase Change Material (TASPCM)

FF 1-10 Global lessons on net zero: Harnessing best practices of industrial decarbonisation for UK clusters

FF 1-12 Synergistic process for carbon capture, waste heat recovery and hydrogen production

FF 2-1 The wider economy and competitiveness impacts of employing pre- and post-combustion carbon capture in UK industries (ECONCC)

FF 2-2 Determining optimum pyrolysis conditions for biochar to be used as metallurgical coal replacement – in support of deep decarbonisation of large UK industrial emitters based within the Humber cluster

FF 2-3 CapCon - conversion of captured carbon dioxide

FF 2-4 On site trail of OxyHyWater - a novel net zero wastewater treatment process

FF 2-6 Augmented engineering digital tools for cluster-based CCUS design (AECCS)

FF 2-7 Valorising Incineration Bottom Ash into Cement rich in Ternesite (VIBACT)

FF 3-2 Utilisation of industrial waste ammonia form steelmaking in solid oxide electrolysis cell technology for efficient and clean hydrogen production

FF 3-4 Comprehensive Assessment of Post-Combustion Capture Options (CAPCCO)

FF 3-11 Reducing blast furnace emissions with hyperspectral imaging

FF 3-15 Potential for microbially enhanced CO₂ sequestration in geological storage environments

FF 3-18 Investigating novel fluid injection approaches for CO₂ storage optimisation

FF 4-1 Assessing the feasibility of implementing CO₂ capture and utilisation in Quorn mycoprotein process

FF 4-2 Hydrogen: Industrial Furnace Fuel of the Future (HIFFF)

FF 4-5 CCUS Futures: Mobilising workforce imaginaries

FF 4-6 Assessing regional demand for geological H₂ storage: Building a strategic case for investment in the east coast cluster

FF 4-7 Establishing an inter-cluster batchwise carbon capture and storage network in the UK

FF 4-8 Biological activated aerosols for industrial decarbonisation

FF 4-10 Feasibility of ammonia-to-hydrogen network in the Humber Cluster

FF 4-13 SAFERCCS: Sustaining fluid-flow and Assessing Feldspar solubility Enhancement Reactions in CCS reservoirs

FF 4-14 Towards accurate measurement of supercritical CO₂ for the advancement of UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)

FF 4-15 Inspiring young minds: work skills readiness for decarbonisation in the Humber

FF 4-16 Enabling sustainable cooling and heating across the Tees Valley industrial cluster

IA 2.1 Decarbonising UK industrial clusters with a mobile thermal energy storage system

IA 3.1: Delivering a place-based just transition in industrial clusters

IA 4.1 AMICUS-AI: Analysis Methods for Improved Capture Using Solvents – Accelerating impact

IA 4.2 Accelerating the scale-up mechanism of e-chemicals

IA 4.3 Informing understanding and decision-making on jobs and skills in relation to the decarbonisation of UK industry clusters

IA 4.4 Where to locate new bioenergy with carbon capture and storage? A natural capital approach

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