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GEOFOOD
Providing new ideas for startups
Thorarinsdottir, R., Turnsek, M., Boedijn, A., Baeza, E., Espinal, C., van den Ven, R., Unnthorsson, R., and Palsson O.
GGW2018
Reykjavik - November 14-15
GeoFood Partners
ICELAND:Samraekt
University of Iceland
THE NETHERLANDS:
LandingAquaculture
Wageningen University
Ammerlan The Green Innovator
SLOVENIA:
University of Maribor
Municipality of Brezice
GeoFood Overall Objective
To increase the direct use of geothermal resources for circular food production systems
Background: Development of circular agricultural production processes• Combining
recirculating aquaculture systems and hydroponics into one system
• Including water treatment and waste recovery processes
Challenges to solve• Scientific
• Optimizing of the overall production system
• Securing good environmental conditions for each production unit
• Technical• Controlling the expenditure of energy,
water, nutrients and manpower resources
• Integrating new ideas into the value chain, increasing the synergy between the different components of the system
• Minimizing waste
• Commercial• Presenting a feasible business model,
making the most use of all available resources, securing optimum production conditions
GeoFood Work Tasks
Initial modelling
• Creation of energy and mass balance models based on assumed scenarios
• Studying potential application scenarios for different climatic areas and heat availability
Initial validation at research level
• Installation of a research system to gather energy use, heat use and water quality data
• Running the research system close to commercial conditons to validate the model
System upscaling
• Installation of a semi-commercial system for data comparison with the research system
• Optimize key processes
• Close the nutrient and water cycles within the systems
Model validation and refinement
• Collation of research and pilot system data to refine the created models
• Disseminate the results to other geothermal areas in Europe and worldwide
The modelling
• Energy and mass balance models based on assumed scenarios
• Studying potential application scenarios for different climatic areas and heat availability
• Will be validated using pilot systems mimicking a commercial fish farm operation connected to a hydroponic greenhouse
The research system in Bleiswijk Netherlands
• Aquaculture facility with the capacity to produce 6 MT of Pike perch (Sander lucioperca)
• Commercial best practice recirculating system (RAS)
• Commercial best practice greenhouse at Wageningen
• All necessary sensory equipment
• Will be implemented December 2018 –February 2019
The show-case system in Iceland
• Built on the design from Bleiswijk
• Strong focus on direct use of geothermal
• Show-case linked to tourism and education
• Future innovation
• Urban farming
• Will be implemented in March –May 2019
FishVegetablesInsect farmingVermicultureMushroom farmingAlgaeFertilizer
Closing nutrient cycles
Increasing valueLowering export costLong shelf life
Processing / Drying with geothermal
TourismEducationTrainingServicesInnovation
Additional use of geothermal
GAIA
Drew Riemersma and Christopher Bower
Three pillars of Icelandic economy
Energy
Fisheries
Tourism
Use of geothermal energy in Iceland
Electricity generation40%
Space heating43%
Fish farming5%
Greenhouses2%
Industry2%
Snow melting4%
Swimming pools4%
Orkustofnun 2017
Use of geothermal energy in Iceland
Orkustofnun 2017
Electricity generation40%
Space heating43%
Fish farming5%
Greenhouses2%
Industry2%
Snow melting4%
Swimming pools4%
Orkustofnun 2017
Climate-KIC Innovation CompetitionUrban Food from Residual Heat
Acknowledgements
www.geofoodproject.eu
This project has been subsidized through the ERANET Cofund GEOTHERMICA (Project no. 731117), from the European Commission, Rannis - Iceland Research Council, RVO in the Netherlands and MZI-DE in Slovenia