Improving energy efficiency in organic-based fertiliser manufacturing for Net Zero UK

大型家禽养殖场越来越有兴趣投资干燥和造粒系统来制造鸡粪颗粒。这是有明显原因的，比如干燥的球团会更容易运输。充满活力的农民希望通过采用这项现有技术来创造新的收入，这项技术在其他欧洲国家普遍使用，如荷兰、比利时和法国。这应该得到鼓励和支持，因为氮肥和燃料的成本已经大幅增加。我们国家确实有丰富的有机氮营养物质。也就是说，我国每年产生的粪便有194万吨。牲畜粪便通常被认为是废物。区域集约化农业是一个障碍。一种耕作方式的养分资源不容易输送到另一种耕作方式。例如，赫里福德郡有许多家禽养殖场，那里的土地无法再吸收更多的养分。惠斯特是肯特郡或南安普敦的蔬菜/水果种植者，需要从海外进口干粪颗粒。这就是我们将在这个项目中解决的挑战。现有的技术吸引了相当多农民的兴趣，那就是干燥和颗粒系统，比如大荷兰人提供的系统。我们在这个项目中的重点是改进和增加解决方案及其最终产品的价值，让英国农民采用该技术，以顺利和成功地运营过程，并考虑到我们的环境：减少能源使用，减少温室气体排放和氨排放。考虑到英国的地理位置和天气，有必要让我们的农民注意到他们在从海外吸收现有技术时可能遇到的潜在障碍。该项目将更好地管理和优化粪便特性，减少氮素营养损失，并更好地对粪便进行定价，从而对土壤、牧场或作物产生更大的好处。我们将确定更多循环农业的实用模式，在实践和经济上为农民服务。该项目有助于实现平坦化，使小农场和规模较大的农场都不需要进口，有助于提高经济稳定性和可持续性。随着成本的降低，农民可以更好地控制他们的生产力支出，为公众消费者的利益抵消这一点。

There is increasing interest in large poultry farms to invest in drying and pelleting system to make chicken manure pellets. There are obvious reasons for this, such as the dry pellets will be easier to be transported. The dynamic farmers are looking to create new revenue by adopting this existing technology, that has been commonly-used in other European countries, such as Netherland, Belgium, and France. This should be encouraged and supported, since the cost on Nitrogen fertiliser and fuel has increased dramatically. We do have the abundant organic N nutrients in our country. Saying that, 1.94 million tons of manures are produced in our country every year. Livestock manures often thought of as waste. Regional intensive farming is a barrier. The nutrients resource from one type of farming is not easy to be transported to another type of farming. For example, there are many poultry farms in Herefordshire, that the land there just cannot take any more nutrients. Whist, a veg/fruits grower in Kent or Southampton need to import dry manure pellets from overseas. This is the challenge we will be addressing in this project.Existing technology, which has attracted quite a few farmers interest is the drying and pellets system, like the one supplied by Big Dutchman. Our focus in this project is to improve and add value to the solution and its end product for UK farmers to uptake the technology, for smooth and successful operational process, and also considering our environment: reduce energy usage, reduce GHG emission and ammonia emission. Considering the location and weather of the UK, it is necessary to bring our farmers attention to the potential barriers they might meet when uptake an existing technology from overseas. This project will better manage and optimise manure characteristics, reduce nitrogen nutrients loss and better valorise manures for greater benefit to soils, pasture or crops. We will define practical models for more circular agriculture that work for the farmers, both practically and financially.Contributing to Levelling Up, with both small and more substantial farms avoiding the need to import, this project helps to improve economic stability and sustainability. With costs reduced, farmers can take better command of their productivity outlays, offsetting this for the benefit of public consumers.