GasAbate Complete: green energy boosting technology - Complete offering for poultry, swine, dairy & beef sectors

Project Description

Animal manure and slurry is a valuable source of nutrients and is used for a variety of applications, including use a starting material for renewable energy generation through a process called Anaerobic Digestion (AD). In Ireland, animal slurry must be stored for a period of time, and this storage period acts as a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, causing the slurry to lose nutrients and value in AD. GlasPort Bio have developed GasAbate, an additive added to stored slurry. This reduces GHG emissions by >80% and allows greater energy output from stored slurry. As part of their strategy to reduce GHG emissions and increase renewable energy in Ireland, the government have identified using slurry as a starting point for AD as a key element to meet binding targets. This has many challenges to allow this to be achieved. This project will ensure these challenges are overcome. We shall show how we can use all animal slurry as a starting point for AD; we shall demonstrate how AD can be achieved more widespread and cheaper using medium-scale AD plants. This will greatly reduce Ireland’s GHG emissions and make Irish agriculture more competitive internationally.