Innovative Solar Energy Technology for Kenyan Tea Industry (InSET4KTI)

肯尼亚茶业的创新太阳能技术 (InSET4KTI)

• 批准号: 105669
• 金额: $ 51万
• 依托单位: ENSO TRADING LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: BEIS-Funded Programmes
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105669
• 关键词: Innovative; Solar; Energy; Technology; Kenyan

The collaborative InSET4KTI project among two UK industries EnSO and CoolSky, one Kenyan industry, Eenovators, and one UK university, Brunel University London (BUL), aims to deliver a radically innovative compact solar thermal technology to harness Kenya’s vast solar resource to supply heating energy required in the Kenyan tea sector. Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) managed 67 tea factories are facing serious challenges to replace currently used wood fuel due to regulatory, economic and environmental requirements. The InSET4KTI solar technology is proposed as a cost effective and technologically viable solution. InSET4KTI project will design, manufacture and install a prototype solar field at KTDA’s Kagwe Tea Factory (KTF). A successful demonstration at KTF will enable rolling out solar thermal technology to all 67 KTDA factories providing a direct route to pass cost savings to 560,000 smallholder farmers who receive a bonus payment based upon the profitability of the tea catchment they supply – any reduction in the energy cost of tea production will therefore result in increased incomes to farmers. This grant will unleash an opportunity for solar heat technology in African and global tea industry, growing UK’s solar energy business.

InSET4KTI项目由两家英国企业EnSO和CoolSky、一家肯尼亚企业Eenovators和一家英国大学伦敦布鲁内尔大学（BUL）合作开展，旨在提供一种彻底创新的紧凑型太阳能热技术，利用肯尼亚丰富的太阳能资源为肯尼亚茶叶行业提供所需的加热能源。肯尼亚茶叶发展局（KTDA）管理着67家茶厂，由于监管、经济和环境要求，它们正面临着替代目前使用的木材燃料的严峻挑战。InSET4KTI太阳能技术被认为是一种具有成本效益和技术可行性的解决方案。InSET4KTI项目将在KTDA的Kagwe茶厂（KTF）设计、制造和安装一个原型太阳能场。在KTF的成功示范将使太阳能热技术能够推广到KTDA的所有67家工厂，为56万小农提供了一条直接途径，将节省的成本传递给他们提供的茶叶集水区的盈利能力，他们将获得奖金——因此，茶叶生产能源成本的任何降低都将导致农民收入的增加。这笔拨款将为非洲和全球茶业的太阳能热技术提供机会，从而发展英国的太阳能业务。