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Market Description and Opportunity:
Any single dwelling home
collecting waste products in a septic
tank, all agricultural enterprises,
municipalities, enterprises involved in
waste water treatment or as agents for
the valuable by-products from waste
reformation, and processing businesses
where animal waste is an unavoidable
problem, are potential owners of
BioCrude technology.
Emerging Nations:
Electrification of
emerging countries presents a vast and
lucrative market for systems that can
generate renewable energy sources.
BioCRUDE systems and technology is a
perfect partner for government programs
dedicated to bringing their populations
into the modern age. No other system
(wind and solar for example) ALSO
contributes to the solution for waste
management problems, water treatment,
and disease control. Over 2 BILLION
households have never had access to
power or proper cooking and food storage
facilities.
Agricultural (Livestock)
Waste Management:
Agricultural concerns can
be major beneficiaries of BioCRUDE
technology. The most important factors
are on-site energy production (reducing
O & M costs and providing a secondary
revenue stream in the sale of an excess
in energy yield), generation of stable,
high quality fertilizer and solid soil
amendment materials, reduction of odours,
reduction of ground and surface water
contamination, reduced public health
risk, and a reduced health risk for
livestock, to name some major issues.
Biogas recovery systems on livestock
operations can be a cost-effective
source of clean, renewable energy that
reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
Because of its high energy content,
biogas can be collected and burned to
supply on-farm energy needs for
electricity or heating. Because the vast
majority of large dairy and swine farms
use liquid or slurry manure management
systems, the biogas production potential
is greatest at these operations; and the
greenhouse gas reductions are the most
significant.
Fish Processing Waste
Management:
Enterprises involved in
the processing of fish also have to deal
with the problem of waste management
affiliated with the resulting offal, or
fish scraps. Rendering, burial, and
incineration were typical disposal
methods. However, these options have
become impractical due to decreasing
availability and higher costs of
rendering, biosecurity concerns, and
potential adverse effects on groundwater
and air quality. These are the primary
reasons for the growing use of
composting to transform fish scraps into
usable by-products. A properly managed
fish scrap composting system is lower in
cost than traditional methods,
environmentally sound, biosecure, and
virtually odour free. Of course, like
all other process operations, successful
composting depends on a commitment to
good management practices.
Fish have been recognized
as being an excellent base for
fertilizer. Aside from the high quality
and nutrient rich fertilizer that is the
end product of the composting process,
the goods are inexpensive to manufacture
and have very low shipping costs. For
this reason we have developed multiple
all natural fish formulas for organic
and conventional crop production.
Bagasse (Sugar Cane)
Current technology is
based on conversion of sugar cane
bagasse, rice straw, orchard slash, and
other waster biomass into ethanol. The
core technology is dilute acid
prehydrolysis of the
lignocellulosic biomass with enzymatic
saccharification of the remaining
cellulose and fermentation of the
resulting glucose and xylose to ethanol.
Organic waste/crop
residues are very important low cost
fermentation substrates for making
ethanol. Bagasse is one such waste
material. It is matted cellulosic fiber
residue from sugar and has been
processed in a sugar mill. There is a
high quanitity of cellulose, a
beta-linked glucose polymer, which is
difficult to break down into glucose.
In addition, it contains hemicellulose,
which is a more complex polymer of
several sugars including xylose and
arabinose. Entwined around the two sugar
polymers is lignin, a polymer that does
not contain sugar. From the bagasse,
hydrolyzed bagasse can be obtained for
animal feed, various types of paper, and
pharmaceutical products. Highly reactive
furfurol, for synthesizing organic
compounds also has a great number of
applications in the chemical and
pharmaceutical industries.
From molasses, apart from
the alcohol used as fuel, is used as a
beverage, in the chemical,
pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries,
syrup, citric acid, lactic acid, mono
sodium glutamate are extracted and the
so-called alcohol-chemistry is developed
- the various transformation
alternatives provided by ethyl alcohol
or ethanol. Ethanol is a starting
product for manufacturing polyethylene,
styrene, ketones, acetaldehyde,
polystyrene, acetic acid, ether, acetone
and a whole range of products derived
from petroleum. Their varied use
includes producing synthetic fibers,
paints, varnishes, containers, tubes,
solvents, hardening agents, etc.
From the effluents, the
liquors are used as fertilizers. There
are still other derivatives: dextran,
xanthan, sorbitol, glycerol, refined
cake wax, anti-fungicides, etc.
Sugarcane thus generates,
as is the case with petroleum,
innumerable products ranging from yeast
to herbicides and insecticides, with an
important difference: they are
biodegradable and inoffensive to
environment.
General Organic Waste and Sewage Sludge:
Organic waste is a
natural and unavoidable result of human
and animal activity. The current
massive volume of waste produced has
become a social and environmental issue.
BioCRUDE technologies
have the capability to offer substantial
advantages in the treatment of these
types of organic waste. Continuing
research and development have been
focused on the development of the
reactants to improve the process time
and the yield of important by-products
and energy resources. The BioCRUDE
reactants added to our optimized
processes are the key to increase the
efficiency in the decomposition process,
achieving results in a short time
period. Procedures involved in
processing organic waste can benefit
from composting as method of obtaining
high quality fertilizer, and our R & D
Department have established a unique
method to achieve decomposition of
organic waste and to produce fertilizer
in a matter of only a few weeks.
Septic Tanks:
The processing of crop
residues and manure wastes in
agricultural areas are not the only
waste management fields where BioCRUDE
technologies can be successfully
applied. There are serious problems
world wide as institutions and
governments struggle with serious
problems and high costs in the disposal
of the sewage from septic tanks.
BioCRUDE technology not only results in
a decrease of the cost of emptying the
tanks, but is also leading in providing
solutions for transforming the sewage
into marketable by-products. In other
words, a situation that is currently a
liability can be changed into a strong
asset. The mission is to institute a
process in which high quality
fertilizers and biogas can be obtained.
Optimizing the procedures and using our
reactant improves the efficiency of the
process and the yield of by-products.
Biodiesel:
A major application of
the BioCRUDE Technology is to synthesize
biodiesel from organic waste and
manure. The focus for the R & D
Department has been to optimize the
process of obtaining the oil, designing
an adequate transesterification
procedure, and to evaluate the
advantages and cost-benefits of
production. It is important to stress
that the BioCRUDE technology is a NEW
alternative to obtaining biodiesel from
manure and organic waste. Although
the individual processes have been used
and tested in other research projects
and universities, it is the MIX of
processes that is innovative and unique
to this product.
Summary
These technologies can be
applied to composting and decomposition
of agricultural waste, cellulose, fish
and animal processing offal, sewage
sludge, improved design of septic tanks,
production of biogas, biodiesel, and
crude oil, water purification, and
more. Target markets would be waste
management companies, municipalities,
water treatment facilities, fertilizer
producers, renewable resource suppliers,
Pulp and Paper plants, sawmills
(cellulose, wood chips, and water
purification), agricultural concerns,
livestock and fish processing operators,
emerging nations for electrification
programs, farms, and even private
homes. The technology has a huge market
potential in many areas, and we are
working to expand the uses and products
continually.
For example, the complete
BioCRUDE system can be proportioned for
use not only by agricultural
enterprises, but by larger customers
such as municipalities and small
industries that have access to the
appropriate form of waste product, with
unique target markets of residences and
farms (non-conglomerate agricultural
enterprises), and third world countries
where electrification programs and waste
management have become critical issues.
It has been demonstrated that 875 cows
being used in diary production, supplied
a secondary income and energy source to
the farmer equivalent to 775 kilowatts.
But the independent
components of the system may even out
perform the monumental potential of the
entire system. BioCRUDE Technologies is
working on uses for the reactant along
with new and important treatment methods
offering efficient, effective and cost
reducing solutions for composting, high
quality fertilizer production, waste
water treatment, and refinement of
renewable fuel sources such as biogas
and biodiesel.
Development Plan and Key Milestones
One of the
main design goals of the creators of the
BioCrude system is to determine the best
ratios of waste, water, and activators
to complete the process in a cost
efficient and timely manner. The short
term objective is to provide working
prototypes, and bench models, keeping in
mind constant improvement and refinement
of the equipment. In the long term, the
aim is creation of full scale prototypes
that can be utilized by both
industrial/agricultural interests and
home users to turn waste products into
viable energy sources. It is not the
intention of BioCrude Technologies to
involve itself in the actual fabrication
or sales to end users, but to develop a
network of licensed manufacturers and
distributors. Joint Venture and Revenue
Sharing agreements are currently being
negotiated with major players in the
environmental green market.
Sustainable Competitive Advantage
The
BioCrude system is scalable for smaller
end users including single home owners
not using a city waste removal system.
Potential agricultural clients represent
a valuable and currently untapped
market. Not only can the farmer satisfy
all of their energy needs, they can
establish a secondary revenue stream
that could prove quite lucrative. The
BioCrude system is totally
self-sufficient, the process is faster
from beginning to end than most
reformation systems, and it can be
totally automated for ease of use for
the end user.
Separate from the
complete BioCRUDE system itself, our
technology is new and innovative, and
can be used for many varied applications
with financial and intangible benefits.
The BioCRUDE Reactants
are high performance products and when
added to well-designed processes have
been shown to significantly increase the
yield in the biogas process and to
promote rapid decomposition rates in
composting. Financial benefits from
their use were analyzed with
satisfactory results. Further R&D will
improve the efficiency in the processes
and decrease the cost of the reactant.
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