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