Leading the Third Wave in Biotech
We convert agricultural, food and some industrial processing waste into biogas that
can be sold to the natural gas utility or burned to generate electricity. And because
we understand the fundamental science of the process, we can consistently generate up to
eight times the amount of biogas as other systems.
Like a brewmaster that adds extra sugar to the wort to get more
alcohol in beer, we add supplemental nutrients to the waste to get
more methane. We also use advanced process monitoring and controls
to maintain the right balance for high methane output.
There hasn't always been a need for these high-tech systems. There's
been a shift away from small animal farms to high-density farms.
These concentrated animal feeding operations
have led to the need for treating large volumes of waste that can't
be processed naturally by the local environment.
Yes, but unfortunately some systems have over-promised and under-performed.
Why is that? We think it's mostly the overly optimistic that don't have the
specialized knowledge and experience in advanced process controls and
fermentation.
It's not necessarily a question of delivering eight times the biogas as the
natural process, it's a question of delivering it consistently.
Unlike some, we're not financiers that license our technology from Europe.
And we don't try make each project conform to a never-changing design
that's thirty years old.
With the need for the US to reduce its dependence on foreign oil and
to develop sustainable biotech processes that provide alternative
fuels, we formed Sustainable Biotech. We've turned our attention
away from pharmaceutical manufacturing to solving the
problems of alternative fuels and sustainability.
We're experts in fermentation, biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry,
kinetics, and thermodynamics. We apply what we know from years of manufacturing
monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins, viral and DNA vaccines,
gene therapies, and nucleic acid-based products. And each project gets a
custom design to meet the particular needs of that project.
An introduction to the next generation of biogas digestors.
This is an overview description of the biogas process.