Application for TSB Driving Innovation Funding for a Feasibility Study investigating the potential of producing a commercial fertiliser pellet, based on anaerobic digestate and chicken litter

申请 TSB 推动创新资金进行可行性研究，调查基于厌氧消化物和鸡粪生产商业化肥颗粒的潜力

• 批准号: 130944
• 金额: $ 3.19万
• 依托单位: MCKNIGHT TRANSPORT LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=130944
• 关键词: Application; TSB; Driving; Innovation; Funding

Many areas of NI are livestock intensive. All of NI is an NVZ. Nitrogen rich chicken litter and slurry can only be spread to land within strict consent limits. The factor limiting growth in many farms is the availability of land on which to spread slurry. Despite this ‘nitrogen problem’ in livestock intensive areas, many arable areas import large tonnages of fertiliser, at increasing costs. It is presently not economic to transport slurry between livestock and arable areas due to its high water content. Concentrating nutrients from chicken litter, slurries and anaerobic digestate into a solid pellet, could prove an economically viable way to move nutrients between livestock intensive areas (where nitrogen is a problem) and arable areas (where it is a resource). This would benefit arable farmers by reducing fertiliser costs, and benefit livestock farmers by enabling them to expand operations. There would be positive impacts on local rural economies by increasing agricultural output.

许多地区是畜牧业密集区。所有人都是NVZ。富含氮的鸡粪和泥浆只能在严格的许可范围内散布到土地上。限制许多农场增长的因素是可用于喷洒泥浆的土地的可用性。尽管在牲畜密集地区存在这种“氮问题”，但许多耕地仍进口大量化肥，成本不断增加。由于泥浆的高含水量，目前在牲畜和耕地之间运输泥浆是不经济的。将鸡粪、泥浆和厌氧消化物中的营养物质浓缩成固体颗粒，可以证明是一种经济可行的方法，可以在牲畜密集区（氮是一个问题）和耕地（氮是一种资源）之间转移营养物质。这将通过降低肥料成本使耕地农民受益，并通过使畜牧业农民能够扩大业务而使他们受益。增加农业产出将对当地农村经济产生积极影响。