ECOSMART: Enabling local Circular ecOnomy hubs using SMart solar AnaeRobic Digestion Technology

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Title
ECOSMART: Enabling local Circular ecOnomy hubs using SMart solar AnaeRobic Digestion Technology

CoPED ID
dc6bb51c-a6d2-46b3-b185-bd465dc6e84c

Status
Closed


Value
£509,938

Start Date
March 1, 2020

End Date
May 30, 2021

Description

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ECOSMART explores the techno-economic feasibility of smart integration of a novel, enhanced anaerobic digestion (AD) process with solar technology to form the basis of a circular economy model. It will establish an integrated UK Nigerian supply chain, aligning social and gender considerations with economic and environmental benefits. Its focus on valorising cassava, yam, corn and mixed market wastes will ensure a high proportion of beneficiaries are women and those on low incomes.

ECOSMART will build on the consortium's expertise, utilising locally available materials and low-cost components to ensure affordability, and reducing feedstock retention time through system design to process waste and generate biogas 4x faster than conventional Continuous Stirred Reactor Tank (CSTR) systems. It will also produce soil amenders and fertiliser in a ratio beneficial for soil management, thus supporting local, sustainable agricultural practices.

With a 4.5-year payback, this model of affordable, low carbon, secure bioenergy will tap into Nigeria's £7.45B minigrid market to support enterprise and capacity building opportunities with training planned at later stages of the project to support local manufacture. Control systems will be adapted by UK SMEs for global commercial opportunities. The focus on flexible energy use and affordability will advance demand-side management and minigrid technology, so developing countries can leapfrog centralised infrastructure to pioneer innovative, more equitable models of generation, distribution and use.

Rokiah Yaman PM_PER
Rokiah Yaman PM_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Biogas
  2. Circular economy
  3. Supply chains
  4. Renewable energy sources
  5. Wastes
  6. Bioenergy
  7. Enterprises
  8. Developing countries
  9. Innovations
  10. Safety and security
  11. Agriculture

Extracted key phrases
  1. SMart solar AnaeRobic Digestion technology
  2. Local circular economy hub
  3. Circular economy model
  4. ECOSMART
  5. Solar technology
  6. Flexible energy use
  7. Minigrid technology
  8. Local manufacture
  9. UK nigerian supply chain
  10. Economic feasibility
  11. Low income
  12. Mixed market waste
  13. Pound;7.45b minigrid market
  14. Equitable model
  15. Conventional Continuous Stirred Reactor Tank

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