Roadmapping for the Foundation Industries –

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Roadmapping for the Foundation Industries – Outcomes from Workshop TFI Network+ held its first virtual workshop, bringing the foundation industries together to discuss roadmapping to net zero. The workshop included an overview of the recent UKRI report on innovation in the foundation industries as well as presentations on energy efficient processes, raw material utilisation and thermal and related sensors. A recording of the main stage sessions is now available for catch up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i20FbwFZGKg The Network has also compiled a list of pre-existing roadmaps for reference: https://tfinetworkplus.org/tfi-network-workshop-pre-existing-sector-roadmaps/ Event Speakers and Sessions Welcome and introduction by Ian Reaney Ben Walsh, Overview of Innovate UK Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge Temitope Akinremi, Innovation and strategy towards net-zero 2050 in the Foundation Industries Ian Reaney and Cameron Pleydell-Pearce, State of the art in energy efficient processes William Sampson and Susan Bernal-Lopez, State of the art in raw materials utilisation- technical challenges to enabling industrial symbiosis Jon Willmott, Thermal and related sensors in the Foundation Industries Plus three breakout sessions during the workshop Audience Analysis – Which area best describes your sector/interest? Note: attendees were able to choose more than one interest area Audience Analysis – Academic/Industry/Other Session 1: this focussed on energy efficiency in the foundation industries. The questions for discussion during the breakout session were: What gaps do you think there are in the roadmaps in your sectors and across sectors for energy efficiency? What synergies do you think there are in the roadmaps in your sectors and across sectors for energy efficiency? What are the key energy efficient technologies that the N+ should focus on? What are the barriers to implementation? Session 1. Themes emerging from the discussion A. Waste heat Delegates commented on the issue of waste heat and its reuse. This included practical issues such as: the technical difficulty of recovering waste heat, e.g. low grade heat; utilising radiative rather than conductive heat recovery; the practicalities of heat storage. Changing materials formulations to require lower processing temperatures Is there an opportunity to store energy from renewables (wind, solar, etc) as heat in geo-assets onshore? Capex/business model related issues were also mentioned such as: cost of retrofit for new technologies; conflict with existing CHP contracts; lack of a way to export heat to possible end users; The need for more collaboration between Fis The need to consider heat in various road maps B. Waste streams Comments on waste streams included: A