Innovative Indoor Farm for Intensive Food Production Using Photovoltaic Vacuum Glazing and Smart Technologies (SmartGreens)

利用光伏真空玻璃和智能技术 (SmartGreens) 进行集约化食品生产的创新型室内农场

• 批准号: 10004697
• 金额: $ 45.6万
• 依托单位: EXTREME LOW ENERGY LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10004697
• 关键词: Innovative; Indoor; Farm; Intensive; Food

The overall aim of the SmartGreens project is to design, develop and field trial of an innovative indoor farm for crop production. This proposed sustainable modular farm, SmartGreens uses photovoltaic (PV) insulating glazing combined with smart technologies to reduce the expensive carbon miles caused by mass food importation and therefore minimise the UK's overall carbon footprint. SmartGreens will also significantly reduce insecticide, fertiliser, and water usage. It will allow year-around crop production with continuous crops, achieving 5-6 crop cycles per year compared to just 1-2 cycles of conventional agriculture.The SmartGreens farm requires considerably less energy than traditional greenhouses, thus reducing its reliance on conventional fossil fuel energy resources. Innovative transparent PV vacuum glazing panels providing insulation and electricity to power the heating and ventilation systems. To enhance food production, the hydroponic growing system consists of a water reservoir/nutrient, growing trays and LED lighting. In terms of indoor climatic control, SmartGreens utilises a highly efficient, compact thermoelectric heat pump powered by PV-DC will be used to provide additional heating in winter and a phase change material 'ChainStore' device for passive cooling during extreme hot seasons. In addition, a CO2 carbon capture/release device will be employed to allow increased CO2 for plant's photosynthesis to increase production. The SmartGreens farms will enable the production of a range of crops including tomatoes, lettuce, kale, spinach, basil, carrots, onions, cucumbers, mushrooms, and other valuable crops with high nutritional value, helping to improve the diets and thus long-term health of consumers.The SmartGreens project will be beneficial for the farming industry and society in general. The project will create new job opportunities in food/agriculture, engineering, maintenance and operating services and energy sectors and also in the national/international trading businesses. The introduction of new sustainable farm technology is key to improving productivity by investing in the current and future agricultural industries.With the year-around production enabled by the highly efficient greenhouse, SmartGreens will enable the same amount of food to be grown in a smaller area. In the UK this will release land that can be used for tree planting to absorb carbon dioxide, thus helping the country to achieve zero nett carbon emissions by 2050, as well as providing more habitats for wildlife and places for outdoor recreation that engender improved mental health.

SmartGreens项目的总体目的是设计，开发和实地试验，用于创新的室内农场进行作物生产。 SmartGreens这是拟议的可持续模块化农场，使用光伏（PV）绝缘玻璃与智能技术相结合，以减少由大众食品进口造成的昂贵碳英里，从而最大程度地减少英国的整体碳足迹。 SmartGreens还将大大减少杀虫剂，肥料和用水。与仅1-2个常规农业周期相比，它将允许连续农作物的农作物产生，每年获得5-6个农作物周期。智能绿色农场所需的能量要比传统的绿屋所需的能量要少得多，从而减少了其对常规化石燃料能源的依赖。创新的透明的PV真空玻璃面板可提供隔热和电力为加热和通风系统供电。为了增强粮食生产，水培生长系统由水库/养分，生长托盘和LED照明组成。在室内气候控制方面，SmartGreens利用由PV-DC供电的高效，紧凑的热电热泵将在冬季提供额外的加热，并在极度炎热的季节中使用相变的材料“链货物”设备来进行被动冷却。此外，将采用二氧化碳捕获/释放装置，以增加植物光合作用的二氧化碳以增加产量。 Smartgreens农场将能够生产一系列农作物，包括西红柿，生菜，羽衣甘蓝，菠菜，罗勒，胡萝卜，洋葱，黄瓜，蘑菇，蘑菇和其他有价值的农作物，具有较高的营养价值，有助于改善饮食，从而改善消费者的长期健康。该项目将在食品/农业，工程，维护和运营服务以及能源领域以及国家/国际贸易业务方面创造新的工作机会。引入新的可持续农场技术是通过投资当前和未来的农业产业来提高生产率的关键。在高效的温室中，全年生产的生产将使SmartGreens能够在较小的地区种植相同数量的食物。在英国，这将释放可用于吸收二氧化碳的土地，从而帮助该国到2050年实现零净碳排放量，并为野生动植物和户外娱乐场所提供更多的栖息地，从而促进了改善精神健康。