Environmental review of seaweed meal production facility at Arramara Teoranta and exploration of alternative cleaner seaweed production facilities
This project set out to review the existing environmental performance of Arramara Teoranta at their Kilkieran facility, and as a priority to investigate cleaner efficient seaweed drying technologies to replace the current coal slack-fuelled process. The existing system, unchanged since the 1970s burns 2,160 tonnes of coal slack per annum producing CO2 emissions and associated particle emissions in an otherwise pristine rural coastal area.
Alternative drying technologies using lower temperatures and powered by cleaner, more sustainable energy (gas, solar, wind or possibly seaweed) will result in improved efficiency and produce meal of a higher nutritional quality while reducing energy use and carbon emissions. Given the recent increased share of the State in the company ownership this initiative was a timely step to investigate ways of modernisation to fully embrace the ethos of sustainability in the production of the company’s organic certified seaweed meal products. In addition to the drying process other aspects of energy use within the company were audited for potential savings and improved efficiency.
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