Total Energy Recovery System for Agribusiness

Abstract

Improvements in agribusiness biological cycle efficiencies are attainable in controlled environments which utilize energy recovered from geothermal resources that are not suitable or power production. By combining greenhouse crops, mushroom culture, fish farming and biogas generation into an integrated biologic system, the waste or by products of each subsystem cycle can be recovered to service input needs of companion cycles. This paper presents the results of a study sponsored by the United States Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) to evaluate the costs of viability of such combined thermodynamic and biologic cycles in a system known as the Total Energy System for Agribusiness (TERSA).