Supply

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Supply Chain - Opportunities
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Anaerobic Digestion Explained _at_Marches Biogas
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vvJzjgCto5FM
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On Dairy farms the average Farm Business
Income increased from 52,971 in 2010/11 to
58,124 in 2011/12, which is an increase of
5,153 per farm. http//www.dardni.gov.uk/farm_inc
omes_in_northern_ireland_2011-13.pdf Farming
is typically asset rich cash poor and matching
business diversification opportunities with the
existing skill set within the farm management
team can also sometimes be a challenge in terms
of available free time and capital
cost. Increasing farming incomes are constrained
by a range of factors - size of land holding,
availability of con-acre, size of family engaged
in the existing enterprise. While 500kW AD
Biogas projects are stand alone businesses in
terms of size and scale, requiring long term
planning, crop management, harvesting and
agronomy skills as well as a supply of cattle
slurry the income return is significant over the
life of the project. The 100Kw plants are a
direct bolt-on to existing Dairy farm enterprises
with a sufficient provision of cattle slurry (500
cow equivalent) the guaranteed annual income from
this size of AD plant is 40,000 per year -
600,000 for the life of the project (15
years) The AAE business model includes 100
capital expenditure costs including NIE grid
connection and associated charges.
Rural Enterprise On Farm Diversification
Opportunity
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• AAE 27 Million Investment
• 10 500kW Anaerobic Digestion Biogas Plants
  operatingor due to be completed by April 2015

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Introduction of Renewable Obligation Certificates
(ROCs) Resulted in approximately 2000 Approved
Northern Ireland Planning Applications for
Renewable Energy projects between 2009 2013.
Less than 5 of these applications were for On
Farm Anaerobic Digestion Biogas Plants. A sample
(85) taken between 2010-13 of AD proposals
highlights a high of successful applications
were within highland farm land areas where there
is raised awareness of Renewable Energy as a
result of wind farms proliferating. Following
the ROCs !
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County Projects
LDERRY 13
TYRONE 32
ANTRIM 18
FERMANAGH 7
DOWN 6
ARMAGH 9
Total 85
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• Anaerobic Digestion by-products include liquid
  biosolids with a 99 pathogen kill, this helps
  reduce the cross contamination of livestock when
  applied to grazing land.
• Anaerobic Digestion bio-solids are plant ready so
  they deliver available nutrients immediately and
  are more cost effective than spreading slurry.
• Future RD will allow farmers the option to add
  value to the bio-solid portion of the digestate
  and sell this material to horticultural
  organisations currently migrating from the use of
  peat and experimenting with biomass materials.

http//www.dardni.gov.uk/tb-slurry-lit-review.pdf

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Digestate Upgrading The first step in upgrading
is usually dewatering of the digestate using a
screw press or decanting centrifuge. This
yields a solid fraction, containing most of the
phosphates and organic dry matter (ODM) And a
liquid fraction containing most of the nitrogen
and potassium. In Nitrate Vulnerable Zones we can
remove the NVZ stigma from the N Ireland UK
farmers.
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Digestate Bio-solids Pelletised
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Excess Heat Utilisation AD facilities produce
more heat than required for their own
consumption. There are a range of options such
as The Fluid Bed Dryer or Where available Food
Dairy Production
The Fluid Bed Dryer
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Morocco is the Saudi Arabia of phosphate
North America dominates global potash supply, and
East Asian nitrogen. But phosphate depends
largely on one country. More than 75 of global
phosphate reserves are in Morocco, and the
disputed areas of the Western Sahara it controls.
Morocco also controls about a third of seaborne
trade.
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Biogas Upgrading Biogas can be upgraded to
Substitute Natural Gas (SNG) quality. This can
then be used as vehicle fuel or mixed into an
existing grid. There are several options for
upgrading the biogas.
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