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

SEaB电力有限公司（SEaB Power Ltd）是一家总部位于英国的公司。SEaB Energy是第一家推出专利、紧凑型和模块化厌氧消化器（AD）的公司，可直接在废物产生点将有机废物转化为能源和收入。SEaB的旗舰产品，垃圾桶，是一个集装箱式厌氧消化器，包括一个巴氏杀菌过程，安全地将有机废物转化为有用的和有价值的能源，肥料和灰水，同时消除了在其他地方运输和处理有机废物的必要性和成本。这些系统已经达到了技术准备水平9（TLR9），并已部署在英国，意大利，法国，葡萄牙和美国。我们的项目将在乳品研究中心（CEDAR），一个独特的，世界知名的应用和战略动物研究设施，位于阿博菲尔德的阅读大学的霍尔农场。CEDAR的研究解决了动物生产系统可持续性的许多关键问题，CEDAR的成功可以激励其他农场采用我们的创新方法，从而减少整个行业的氨排放。我们正在解决的主要技术挑战是减少农业厌氧消化过程中的氨排放。由于氨的有害环境影响，包括富营养化和温室气体的贡献，这是非常重要的。这笔赠款将用于系统地研究在厌氧消化器中不同的操作参数和原料成分如何影响专门的小型厌氧消化器的氨排放的产生和缓解，以及利用营养丰富的厌氧消化器的新方法，并评估收集和负责任地使用氨对环境和商业的影响。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有助于农业中氨排放的知识基础，而且还可以刺激与厌氧消化相关的新产品，服务或工艺的开发。通过改进反垃圾船的操作方法，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做法和全面减少该部门的环境影响做出重大贡献。

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.