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Hirad Energy Farm

The Hirad Energy Farm is a slurry processing system developed from traditional Anaerobic Digestion Technology simplified and improved by HIRAD using rapid rate anaerobic digestion. It is a bespoke system that converts slurry into electricity and fertiliser.

The system is quick, converting a day's slurry production within a day. It is typically installed to the farm’s existing storage facilities giving minimal disruption. Unlike old style AD systems, it does not require an energy crop or external waste streams and its outputs all have a value. The gas produced is used to produce electricity, the solid waste is composted and used as a soil treatment (or sold) and the liquid is a premium fertiliser.

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As the process just removes the volatile compounds (the ones that produce the green house gases) the nitrates that the farmer wants are left in the liquid. Producing a fertiliser that is much safer to store and spread.

The most important difference between the Hirad Energy Farm and all other slurry AD systems, is the price.

Typically an old style AD system will cost anywhere between £750,000 and £1m. It will require a large civil engineering project to install it and a lot of on going maintenance. The Hirad system is designed to just process the farms waste levels. So if there are 250 head of dairy cattle the system will process the slurry from those cows. In fact the smallest system will process the slurry from only 125 head of dairy cattle. With a separator included with each system it will also help reduce the farms storage requirements by up to 20%.

The best bit is because we think every dairy farm in the UK will want one of these systems we have decided not to sell them. Instead we are leasing them to farms. For a one off payment Hirad will install a system suitable to the size of you're farm and then set up a power export agreement and give you a share of the electricity produced by the system. Oh, and we take care of the majority of the maintenance costs.