Electro-Methanogenic Reactor Electrode Optimisation

电产甲烷反应器电极优化

• 批准号: 10025685
• 金额: $ 26.63万
• 依托单位: WASE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10025685
• 关键词: Electro; Methanogenic; Reactor; Electrode; Optimisation

Food & Beverage Manufacturers (FBM) is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the UK. The industry has been significantly affected by COVID-19, rising energy prices and waste management fees.The food supply chain generates significant volumes of organic waste and wastewater. There is an opportunity to implement on-site circular waste treatment. The waste contains valuable chemical energy, water and nutrients that can be recovered with appropriate technologies. Treating waste on-site can reduce carbon emissions, lower operational expenditure (OPEX), create a sustainable bioenergy supply, and reduce water demands. However, current waste to energy solutions such as Anaerobic Digestion (AD) has a large footprint and slow treatment time of 20-30 days.WASE is developing a novel approach to decentralised wastewater and organic waste treatment. We have developed a patent-pending electro-methanogenic technology to provide a circular approach to waste treatment with our industriWASE system. industriWASE allows Food & Beverage manufacturers to generate biohydrogen and biomethane that can be converted into electricity and heat, and they can recover water and nutrients that can be sold as fertilisers. industriWASE is a modular, containerised solution that can treat 1-2 tonnes of organic waste a day or 10,000L of wastewater.Our patent-pending technology treats solid waste 3 times faster and has up to 10 times faster flow rates when treating wastewater compared to AD. Our process further breaks down waste to generate 10-30% more energy than AD and reduce the amount of sludge produced. The accelerated performance comes from our novel electrode technology that accelerates the breakdown of organics. Using our process, we integrate biosensing to understand the health of the bacteria in the reactor in real-time. The real-time analysis removes the need for skilled engineering operators and makes decentralised treatment feasible in places it wasn't before.industriWASE has a low ROI (3-5 Years) and provides multiple benefits over conventional AD, including the reduced footprint and associated civil costs, the increased energy generation and higher waste removal rates.

食品和饮料制造商 (FBM) 是英国增长最快的行业之一。该行业受到 COVID-19、能源价格上涨和废物管理费的严重影响。食品供应链产生大量有机废物和废水。有机会实施现场循环废物处理。这些废物含有宝贵的化学能、水和营养物质，可以通过适当的技术回收。现场处理废物可以减少碳排放、降低运营支出 (OPEX)、创造可持续的生物能源供应并减少水需求。然而，目前的废物能源解决方案，例如厌氧消化 (AD)，占地面积大，处理时间慢，需要 20-30 天。WASE 正在开发一种分散废水和有机废物处理的新方法。我们开发了一项正在申请专利的电产甲烷技术，通过我们的 industriWASE 系统提供循环废物处理方法。 industriWASE 允许食品和饮料制造商生产可转化为电力和热能的生物氢和生物甲烷，并且他们可以回收可作为肥料出售的水和养分。 industriWASE 是一种模块化、集装箱式解决方案，每天可处理 1-2 吨有机废物或 10,000 升废水。与 AD 相比，我们正在申请专利的技术处理固体废物的速度提高了 3 倍，处理废水时的流速提高了 10 倍。我们的工艺进一步分解废物，产生的能量比 AD 多 10-30%，并减少污泥产生量。加速的性能来自于我们的新型电极技术，可加速有机物的分解。利用我们的工艺，我们集成生物传感来实时了解反应器中细菌的健康状况。实时分析消除了对熟练工程操作员的需求，并使分散处理在以前无法实现的地方变得可行。industriWASE 的投资回报率较低（3-5 年），并且与传统 AD 相比具有多种优势，包括减少占地面积和相关土建成本、增加能源生成和提高废物清除率。