Agricultural Heating and Anaerobic Digestion from Deep Borehole Geothermal Energy

利用深钻孔地热能进行农业供暖和厌氧消化

• 批准号: 10080635
• 金额: $ 5.29万
• 依托单位: MARTIN WARD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10080635
• 关键词: Agricultural; Heating; Anaerobic; Digestion; Deep

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).

这个项目是由大哈普顿的Wellfield农场的M Ward & Son提出的，因为我们试图开发机会，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组合系统开始，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用于位置，原料和地热的适当大小的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、与供热相匹配的温室作物以及其他潜在的热量用户（例如虾/鱼养殖，蘑菇，昆虫/蛋白质养殖）该项目将提供一个蓝图，利用净零解决方案满足农业热量和能源需求，同时利用剩余热量和能源创造更多机会，除了我们自己，上述三个工作范围将涉及以下合作伙伴和承包商：1.生物可再生能源开发中心（约克大学“BDC”）审查地热系统和案例研究，（“Ceraphi”）领先的地热工程师和开发商; 2. NNFCC进行原料评估;以及3.用于最终用户评估的地区饮食（“DE”）。油井所有者第三能源公司将提供创新经理（“IM”），该经理将与上述贡献者一起，将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量种植新产品或牲畜的方法，它将为我们的农场和其他人提供一种方法，在我们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业务。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，并使用可再生热量使其更加环保，我们将知道当地有什么原料，并确定对我们的农场最有利的工艺。然后，这可以在当地采用，或者在有其他多余威尔斯井（或者确实有能力钻地热威尔斯井）的国家使用。