project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group
Development of a slurry concentrator wirh continuous total nitrogen data collection
Context
The pilot project aims to reduce the costs of management of livestock waste by applying a new process from which the slurry coming directly from the farm will be separated into two phases, a first semi-liquid phase with the most of the organic fraction, the nutrients and the larger particles and a second liquid phase with low nutrient concentration. The differentiated management of the two phases will allow to minimize transport costs as well as the optimization of the application of nutrients in the soil, both from an agronomic and environmental point of view.
Objectives
-Implement monitoring of flow and concentration of nitrogen through equipment/sensors.
-Minimize the setting up and operation costs (including energy consumption) of the new process / technology developed (concentrator)
-Ensure that the materials that make up the concentrator are resistant to the environments to which they are destined.
-Evaluate the implementation of the concentrator in existing installations without substantially modifying the storage structures.
-Decrease transportation costs of agricultural nutrients.
-Assessing environmental impacts through life analysis tools (LCA) and the economic viability of the process using Life Cycle Costing (LCC).
Activities
1. Design, construction and implementation of the new system of concentration of nutrients and organic matter in slurry storage ponds.
2. Monitoring the concentrations and characteristics of each of the fractions (diluted and concentrated).
3. Capture, transport and application of fractions produced.
4. Determination of the economic and environmental sustainability of the new system and the new management model.
5- Modifications and redesign of the system based on the results obtained in Action 4, to determine the economic and environmental sustainability of the new system and the new management model.
Project details
- Main funding source
- Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
- Rural Development Programme
- 2014ES06RDRP009 Spain - Rural Development Programme (Regional) - Cataluña
Location
- Main geographical location
- Barcelona
EUR 270 967.00
Total budget
Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.
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Contacts
Project coordinator
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Ramon Sarroca Capell
Project coordinator