Ammonia Emission Mitigation in Agriculture: Advancing Anaerobic Digestion Technologies for Sustainable Farming

SEAB Power Ltd，交易名称为SEAB Energy，是一家总部位于英国的公司。SEAB Energy是第一家销售专利的紧凑型模块化厌氧消化器(AD)，可以在废物产生点直接将有机废物转化为能源和收入。SEAB的旗舰产品Flexibuster是一种集装箱厌氧消化器，包括巴氏杀菌过程，将有机废物安全地转化为有用和有价值的能源、化肥和灰水，同时消除了将有机废物运输和处置到其他地方的必要性和成本。这些系统已经达到技术准备级别9(TLR9)，并已在英国、意大利、法国、葡萄牙和美国部署。我们的项目将在乳品研究中心(Cedar)进行，这是一个独特的、世界知名的应用和战略动物研究设施，位于阿博菲尔德的雷丁大学霍尔农场。Cedar的研究解决了动物生产系统可持续性的许多关键问题，证明Cedar的成功可以激励其他农场采用我们的创新方法，导致整个行业减少氨排放。我们正在解决的主要技术挑战是减少农业中厌氧消化过程的氨排放。这笔拨款将用于系统研究Flexibuster中不同的运行参数和原料组成如何影响专用小型厌氧消化池的生产和减少氨排放，以及利用营养丰富的消化液的新方法，并评估捕获和负责任地使用氨的环境和商业影响。我们将对优化系统进行经济可行性评估。最终目标是了解我们的解决方案的潜在商业可行性及其环境效益，并制定第二阶段的计划。这项研究的结果不仅将有助于建立农业氨排放的知识库，还可能刺激与厌氧消化相关的新产品、服务或工艺的开发。通过改进Flexibuster的运营方法，我们的项目将提供符合环境可持续性和经济可行性的实用解决方案。通过这样做，我们希望为可持续农业实践和总体减少该部门的环境影响作出重大贡献。

SEaB Power Ltd, which trades as SEaB Energy, is a UK based company. SEaB Energy is the first to market a patented, compact and modular anaerobic digester (AD) to convert organic wastes into energy and revenue directly at the point of waste production. SEaB's flagship product, Flexibuster, is a containerised anaerobic digester that includes a pasteurisation process that safely turns organic waste into useful and valuable energy, fertiliser and grey water while eliminating the necessity and costs of transport and disposal of organic waste elsewhere. These systems have achieved technology readiness level 9 (TLR9) and have been deployed in the UK, Italy, France, Portugal and USA.Our project will take place at The Centre for Dairy Research (CEDAR), a unique, world-renowned facility for applied and strategic animal research, situated at the University of Reading's Hall Farm at Arborfield. Research at CEDAR addresses many of the key issues for the sustainability of animal production systems, and demonstrating success at CEDAR could inspire other farms to adopt our innovative methods, leading to industry-wide reductions in ammonia emissions.The main technical challenge we are addressing is the reduction of ammonia emissions from the anaerobic digestion process in agriculture. This is significant due to ammonia's detrimental environmental impacts, including eutrophication and contribution to greenhouse gases.This grant will be used to to systematically examine how varying operational parameters and feedstock compositions in the Flexibuster affect the production and mitigation of ammonia emissions from specialised small scale Anaerobic Digesters, and new ways to utilise the nutrient rich digestate, and evaluate the environmental and commercial impact of the capture and responsible use of ammonia.We will conduct an economic feasibility assessment of the optimized system. The ultimate goal is to understand the potential commercial viability of our solution and its environmental benefits and develop the plan for phase 2\.The results from this research will not only contribute to the knowledge base on ammonia emissions in agriculture but could also spur the development of new products, services, or processes associated with anaerobic digestion. By refining the operational methods of the Flexibuster, our project will provide practical solutions that align with both environmental sustainability and economic viability. In doing so, we hope to make a significant contribution to sustainable agricultural practices and the overall reduction of the sector's environmental impact.