Aardvark News
Aardvark wins AD study contract
The aim of the study is to establish the feasibility and viability of installing low cost, low tech’, Anaerobic Digestion technology in a range of small ‘on-farm’ scenarios in Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and Exmoor National Park with the combined benefits of reducing the amount of slurry effluent and other organic waste and the generation of energy for use on the farm, for supply to the national grid and possibly as an alternative transport fuel.
The Cornwall Agri-food Council Development Team (CACDT) has, for some time, been aware that farmers could benefit from reduced costs and improve market security for the industry if they were able to invest in facilities such as AD on their farms, especially in view of the impending NVZ requirements and their impact on the need for extra storage capacity
on farms.
A study into the economic modelling of high tech’ solutions on large scale farms in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has already been carried out and a report completed. This new study seeks to address the recognised demand for lower cost (‘low tech’) solutions on farms in the same study area and in the Exmoor National Park, in Somerset/Devon.
Wednesday, 19 August 2009