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

AF4ENERGY 非洲负担得起的能源 - 可再生能源和废弃生物质的增值

• 批准号: 105910
• 金额: $ 107万
• 依托单位: QUBE RENEWABLES LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105910
• 关键词: AF4ENERGY; Affordable; Energy; Africa; Renewable

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.

撒哈拉以南非洲的农业废物在生产沼气中具有巨大的未开发潜力。沼气技术正在应用于将其中的一些废物转化为清洁可再生能源，但是迄今为止，这主要依赖于第一代“湿”厌氧消化（AD）系统，具有高资本和运营成本和高寄生能源的高度和高寄生能源负载。优化广告过程。这将在县的支持下增加分析能力建设，这将支持该项目和更广泛的广告行业，以解决广告系统的关键故障点之一 - 缺乏技术支持。这将为撒哈拉以南非洲的农村非洲提供一条清洁可负担能源的途径，该途径通过使用高干性和高干燥的废物和高纤维素的脂肪纤维化的方法来养成脂肪纤维化的系统，从而可以从系统上供应，从而能够从系统地养成脂肪群，从而使能源供应范围。资本成本，复杂性，运营成本和本地能力。广告系统将设计为扁平包系统，可在肯尼亚建造，使用本地组件进行最终安装。在商业阶段，这可以快速推出技术开发人员确保构建质量和IP的质量。业务模型旨在通过发热和发电，将这些服务出售给农业加工行业，为农业加工行业提供价值，而这些服务在越来越多的废物控制方面，而浪费控制则是在间歇性电源的情况下。多余的沼气将被干燥，压缩并在当地社区中用于烹饪，照明和冷却。消化物将被加工到堆肥中，并在农业中重新使用。各自的创新将有助于克服能源三元素，同时为商业和社区提供商业生态系统服务。