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，以制作鸡粪颗粒。这有明显的原因，例如干燥的颗粒将更容易运输。充满活力的农民正在寻求通过采用这种现有技术来创造新的收入，这种技术在其他欧洲国家，如比利时，比利时和法国都很常用。这应该得到鼓励和支持，因为氮肥和燃料的成本急剧增加。我国是一个有机氮营养丰富的国家。也就是说，我国每年产生194万吨肥料。牲畜粪便通常被认为是废物。区域集约化农业是一个障碍。从一种类型的农业中获得的养分资源不容易转移到另一种类型的农业中。例如，赫里福德郡有许多家禽养殖场，那里的土地不能再吸收任何营养。惠斯特，肯特或南安普顿的蔬菜/水果种植者需要从海外进口干肥料颗粒。这是我们在这个项目中将要解决的挑战。现有的技术，吸引了相当多的农民的兴趣是干燥和颗粒系统，如大荷兰人公司提供的。我们在该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，使英国农民能够采用该技术，实现顺利和成功的操作过程，并考虑我们的环境：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肥特性，减少氮素养分损失，更好地评价粪肥，为土壤、牧场或作物带来更大利益。我们将制定切实可行的模式，为农民提供更好的循环农业，无论是在实践上还是在财务上。该项目有助于提高经济稳定性和可持续性，使小型和大型农场都无需进口。随着成本的降低，农民可以更好地控制他们的生产力支出，抵消这对公众消费者的好处。

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.