Anaerobic digestion: A prime solution for water, energy and food nexus challenges
dc.contributor.author | Haltas, I | |
dc.contributor.author | Suckling, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Soutar, I | |
dc.contributor.author | Druckman, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Varga, L | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-17T11:11:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-09-19 | |
dc.description.abstract | We solve the problem of identifying one or more optimal patterns of anaerobic digestion (AD) installation across the UK, by considering existing installations, the current feedstock potential and the project growth of the potential via population, demography and urbanization. We test several scenarios for the level of adoption of the AD operations in the community under varying amounts of feedstock supply, which may arise from change in food waste or energy crops generation via other policies and incentives. For the most resilient scales of solutions, we demonstrate for the UK the net energy production (bio-gas and electricity) from AD (and so the avoided emissions from grid energy), the mass of bio-waste processed (and avoided land-fill), and the quantum of digestate produced (as a proxy for avoided irrigation and fertilizer production). In order to simulate the AD innovation within WEF nexus we use agent based modelling (ABM) owing to its bottom-up approach and capability of modelling complex systems with relatively low level data and information. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 123, pp. 22 - 29 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.07.280 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/127093 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | en_GB |
dc.subject | Nexus | en_GB |
dc.subject | water-energy-food | en_GB |
dc.subject | complexity | en_GB |
dc.subject | agent based model | en_GB |
dc.subject | case study | en_GB |
dc.subject | governance | en_GB |
dc.subject | technology | en_GB |
dc.title | Anaerobic digestion: A prime solution for water, energy and food nexus challenges | en_GB |
dc.type | Conference paper | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-09-17T11:11:57Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1876-6102 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Elsevier via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | 1st International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Resource Use in Food Chains, ICSEF 2017, 19-20 April 2017, Berkshire, UK | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Energy Procedia | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2017-09-19 | |
rioxxterms.type | Conference Paper/Proceeding/Abstract | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-09-15T11:11:32Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-09-17T11:12:01Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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