Agricultural Heating and Anaerobic Digestion from Deep Borehole Geothermal Energy

这个项目是由大哈普顿Wellfield农场的M Ward & Son提出的，我们试图开发机会，使我们的农业实践多样化，变得更加可持续。我们的范围将包括三个独立的可行性要素。从评估一个创新的地热/AD联合系统开始，我们将确定地热对AD过程的贡献，连接这两个资产所需的适当基础设施，以及适合位置、原料和地热的适当规模的AD。其次，我们将进行原料调查，以确定当地可用的原料及其对AD的适用性（例如热值）。最后，我们将确定多余热量的潜在用途，包括当地农业热量需求、与热量供应相匹配的温室作物和其他潜在的热量用户（例如虾/鱼养殖、蘑菇养殖、昆虫/蛋白质养殖）。该项目将为使用农业热能和能源需求的净零解决方案提供蓝图，同时利用剩余的热能和能源创造更多机会，使当前的农业实践多样化，并在环境和财务上更具可持续性。上述三个工作范围除了我们自己之外，还涉及到以下合作伙伴和承包商：2.约克大学生物可再生能源发展中心（“BDC”）对地热系统和案例研究进行审查，以及领先的地热工程师和开发商Ceraphi Energy Ltd（“Ceraphi”）；NNFCC用于原料评估；说谎。地区饮食（“DE”）的最终用户评估。井主Third Energy将提供创新经理（“IM”），他将与上述贡献者一起为该项目提供广泛的专业知识和技能。通过确定有效利用可再生热能种植新农产品或牲畜的方法，我们的农场和其他农场将在受到气候变化和新农业政策影响的情况下建立一个有弹性的企业。通过完成这些研究，我们将能够开发就地废物转化为能源的解决方案，并使用可再生热能使其更加环保，我们将了解当地可用的原料，并确定对我们农场最有利的工艺。这可以在当地采用，也可以在全国范围内使用，因为那里有其他多余的井（或者确实有能力钻地热井）。

This project is being proposed by M Ward & Son of Wellfield Farm in Great Habton as we try to develop opportunities to diversify our farming practices and become more sustainable. Our scope will consist of three separate feasibility elements. Starting with an assessment of an innovative geothermal heat/AD combined system, we will identifying the contributions which geothermal heat can have on the AD process, the appropriate infrastructure needed to connect these two assets and the appropriately sized AD for the location, feedstock and geothermal heat available. Secondly, we will undertake a feedstock survey to identify locally available feedstock and its suitability for AD, (e.g. calorific value). Finally, we will identify potential uses for the excess heat including local agricultural heat requirements, greenhouse crops which would match heat supply and other potential heat users (e.g. shrimp/fish farming, mushrooms, insect/protein farming).This project will provide a blueprint for using Net Zero solutions for agricultural heat and energy requirements while utilising surplus heat and energy to create additional opportunities to diversify current farming practices and become more environmentally and financially sustainable.In addition to ourselves, the three work scopes above will involve the following partners and contractors:1.The Biorenewables Development Centre ("BDC" at the University of York) for review of geothermal systems and case studies and Ceraphi Energy Ltd ("Ceraphi") a leading geothermal engineer and developer;2.NNFCC for the feedstock assessment; and3.District Eating ("DE") for the end user assessments.The well owner, Third Energy will be providing the Innovation Manager ("IM") who, together with the above contributors, will provide a broad range of expertise and skills to the project.By identifying ways to efficiently use renewable heat for growing new produce or livestock, it will give our farm and others a way to build a resilient business as we are impacted by climate change and new farming policy. By completing these studies, we would be able to develop in-situ waste to energy solutions and make them more environmentally friendly using renewable heat, we would know what feedstock is available in the local area and determine the processes most profitable for our farm. This could then be adopted locally or be used nationally where there are other redundant wells (or indeed the capacity to drill geothermal wells).