#1 Mushroom Production Protocole

The mushroom production protocol established by SPORADIC follows the principles of the Blue Economy and applies techniques researched and developed at EkoFungi, namely by biologist and producer Ivanka Milenkovic.

A concrete example:

SUBSTRATE TREATMENT

The innovation begins with substrate treatment. There is no need of additional heat to sterilize the substrate.

This results in approximately 95% less energy use: per 100kg of substrate we move from 57KwH using a classical approach to 0.5 KwH using this approach*.

Instead, we use a water treatment driven by microorganisms (see attached.gif) which is easy to use (thus transmittable), and which provides us with reusable water enriched in sugars.

This has been proved effective on diverse "waste" substrates, such as wheat straw, sunflower heads, apple branches, olive leaves and branches, or tamarix.

For the totality of concrete cases see research center of Blue Economy, ZERI (zero emission research institute)

Our calculation for standard pasteurisation approach is the following:

The amount of heat, i.e. the energy required to heat the mass of water (m) to the desired temperature (T) is:

Q = s * m * (T - To)        s - specific heat of (pure) water         s = 4200 J/kg*K

To - the temperature of the water from the water supply

Example:

Energy (amount of heat) required to heat 1 cubic meter of water to T = 60 degrees Celsius.

Q = 4200 * 1000 * 50

Q = 210 000 000 (J) or

Q = 58.3 kW/h

Notes:

1 cubic meter of water = 1000 kg

That - I assumed the inlet was 10 C, so it is

T - To = 60 - 10 = 50 (C)

1 kw/h = 3600000 J, so it is

210000000 : 3600000 =

= 58.3 kW/h

 

This is the example of such watertank