Agricultural Heating and Anaerobic Digestion from Deep Borehole Geothermal Energy

这个项目是由大哈顿Wellfield农场的M Ward&Son提出的，因为我们试图开发机会，使我们的耕作做法多样化，并变得更可持续。我们的范围将由三个独立的可行性要素组成。从评估创新的地热/AD组合系统开始，我们将确定地热对AD过程的贡献，连接这两个资产所需的适当基础设施，以及可获得的位置、原料和地热的适当规模的AD。第二，我们会进行原料调查，以确定本地可供使用的原料及其对AD的适合性(例如热值)。最后，我们将确定多余热量的潜在用途，包括本地农业热量需求、与热量供应相匹配的温室作物以及其他潜在的热量用户(例如虾/鱼养殖、蘑菇、昆虫/蛋白质养殖)。该项目将提供一个蓝图，使用Net Zero解决方案来满足农业热量和能源需求，同时利用剩余热量和能源创造更多机会，使当前的耕作方式多样化，并变得更加环保和经济可持续。除了我们自己，上述三个工作范围将涉及以下合作伙伴和承包商：1.负责审查地热系统和案例研究的生物可再生能源开发中心(“BDC”)和领先的地热工程师和开发商Ceraphi Energy Ltd(“Ceraphi”)；2.NNFCC用于原料评估；3.地区饮食(DE)用于最终用户评估。油井所有者Third Energy将提供创新经理(IM)，他将与上述贡献者一起为该项目提供广泛的专业知识和技能。通过确定有效利用可再生热能种植新产品或牲畜的方法，它将为我们的农场和其他人提供一种方法，在我们受到气候变化和新农业政策的影响时建立具有弹性的业务。通过完成这些研究，我们将能够开发就地废物转化为能源的解决方案，并使用可再生热能使其更加环保，我们将了解当地可用的原料，并确定对我们的农场最有利可图的工艺。然后，这可以在当地采用，或者在有其他多余的井(或实际上有能力钻探地热井)的情况下在全国使用。

This project is being proposed by M Ward & Son of Wellfield Farm in Great Habton as we try to develop opportunities to diversify our farming practices and become more sustainable. Our scope will consist of three separate feasibility elements. Starting with an assessment of an innovative geothermal heat/AD combined system, we will identifying the contributions which geothermal heat can have on the AD process, the appropriate infrastructure needed to connect these two assets and the appropriately sized AD for the location, feedstock and geothermal heat available. Secondly, we will undertake a feedstock survey to identify locally available feedstock and its suitability for AD, (e.g. calorific value). Finally, we will identify potential uses for the excess heat including local agricultural heat requirements, greenhouse crops which would match heat supply and other potential heat users (e.g. shrimp/fish farming, mushrooms, insect/protein farming).This project will provide a blueprint for using Net Zero solutions for agricultural heat and energy requirements while utilising surplus heat and energy to create additional opportunities to diversify current farming practices and become more environmentally and financially sustainable.In addition to ourselves, the three work scopes above will involve the following partners and contractors:1.The Biorenewables Development Centre ("BDC" at the University of York) for review of geothermal systems and case studies and Ceraphi Energy Ltd ("Ceraphi") a leading geothermal engineer and developer;2.NNFCC for the feedstock assessment; and3.District Eating ("DE") for the end user assessments.The well owner, Third Energy will be providing the Innovation Manager ("IM") who, together with the above contributors, will provide a broad range of expertise and skills to the project.By identifying ways to efficiently use renewable heat for growing new produce or livestock, it will give our farm and others a way to build a resilient business as we are impacted by climate change and new farming policy. By completing these studies, we would be able to develop in-situ waste to energy solutions and make them more environmentally friendly using renewable heat, we would know what feedstock is available in the local area and determine the processes most profitable for our farm. This could then be adopted locally or be used nationally where there are other redundant wells (or indeed the capacity to drill geothermal wells).