AF4ENERGY Affordable Energy for Africa - Renewable Energy and Valorisation of Waste Biomass

撒哈拉以南非洲的农业废弃物在沼气生产方面具有巨大的未开发潜力。沼气技术正被应用于将这些废物转化为清洁的可再生能源，但迄今为止，这主要依赖于第一代“湿式”厌氧消化（AD）系统，该系统具有高资本和运营成本以及高寄生能量负荷。在这个项目中，一个由领先专家组成的联盟概述了引入创新和高效的测序批“干”AD系统，该系统由强大的辅助监控系统支持，将优化AD过程。这将通过加强分析能力建设在县得到支持，这将支持该项目和更广泛的AD部门，解决AD系统的一个关键故障点——缺乏技术支持。这将通过利用高干物质和高纤维素废物，为撒哈拉以南非洲农村提供一条清洁、负担得起的能源途径。这种新颖的方法是系统地设计，以克服主要障碍，采用和可持续性的能源从废物喂养的AD系统；资本成本、复杂性、运营成本和本地容量。AD系统将被设计成一个平板包装系统，在肯尼亚建造，使用当地组件进行最终安装。在商业阶段，这使得技术能够快速推出，同时项目开发人员可以确保构建和IP的质量。该商业模式旨在通过热和发电为废物提供价值，并将这些服务出售给农业加工部门，这些部门在废物控制方面正面临越来越多的立法，同时有间歇性的电力供应。多余的沼气将被干燥和压缩，并在当地社区用于烹饪、照明和制冷。消化物将被加工成堆肥，并重新用于农业。各自的创新将有助于克服能源三难困境，同时为企业和社区提供商业生态系统服务。

Agricultural waste in sub-Saharan Africa has significant untapped potential for biogas production. Biogas technologies are being applied to the conversion of some of these wastes into clean renewable energy, but to date this has relied largely on first generation 'wet' anaerobic digestion (AD) systems with high capital and operational costs and high parasitic energy loads.In this project, a consortium of leading experts outline to introduce innovative and efficient sequencing batch 'dry' AD system enabled by robust ancillary monitoring systems that will optimise the AD process. This will be supported in county with increased analytical capacity building that will support this project and the wider AD sector, addressing one of the key failure points for AD systems - lack of technical support.This will provide a route to clean affordable energy in rural sub-Saharan Africa by utilising high dry matter and high cellulose wastes.This novel approach is systematically designed to overcome the key barriers to adoption and sustainability of energy from waste fed AD systems; capital cost, complexity, operational cost and local capacity. The AD system will be designed as a flat pack system to be built in Kenya using local components for final installation. In the commercial phase this enables rapid roll out of the technology whilst the project developers ensure quality of build and IP.The business model looks to provide value to wastes through heat and power generation, selling these services to the agro processing sector, that are coming under increasing legislation in terms of waste control whilst having intermittent power supply. Excess biogas will be dried and compressed and used in local communities for cooking, lighting and cooling. Digestate will be processed to a compost and reused back in agriculture.The respective innovations will help to overcome the energy trilemma whilst providing commercial ecosystems services to business and communities.