Our Mission: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
AND RESOURCE RECOVERY —Turning Costs into Profits

One of the great challenges of our time is how to deal with the reality that we are quickly using up our finite supply of fossil fuel and, in the process, generating waste products and pollution that threaten our health and the health of our entire natural environment. Everstech is working to provide solutions to this challenge that will promote the sustainability of a healthy environment while reducing waste disposal costs and generating new income sources for industry and agriculture.

Through the use of Everstech's bio-engineered waste management and resource recovery technology processes, agricultural and industrial sites are able to dispose of bio-sludges from waste treatment in an environmentally safe way that also generates value-added by-products which can be used for energy generation or as environmentally-friendly fertilizer. The implementation of Everstech processes in a wide variety of waste disposal settings has resulted in an improved environment, the elimination of waste disposal costs and the development of profitable income streams for clients from the sale of by-products. Everstech processes provide the added benefit of eliminating concerns about the transmission of disease, toxic compounds, and antibiotics through meat and fish which have been fed on processed meat or harvested fish waste.

EversTech custom designs a process to suit the needs of each client in identifying and solving specific pollution problems. Our approach involves the use of some or all of the following:

Implementation of feasibility studies, pilot trials, and treatment audits
Design of a full-scale system based on pilot data and analyses
Calculation of income benefits and cost savings, system capital costs, by-product yields and processing costs
Exploration of grant availability and third-party financing
Design, creation and installation of a full turnkey operation
Provision of ongoing system operation, management, and maintenance
Marketing of by-products

Background and Purpose

EversTech LLC, now based in Terre Haute, Indiana, was formed in 2004 to introduce our processes to the US market. Since that time, through joint ventures and/or licensing, we have begun to extend our services around the world. At Everstech, we see our role as providing real world solutions to our dependence on the finite resources of oil, natural gas and coal. By helping industry and agriculture reduce their use of natural resources while also reducing the waste they generate, we contribute to the reduction of global warming, the preservation of water supplies and fish stocks and the prevention of disease spread by animal waste.

The ET Process

EversTech’s key technology, the ET Process, is a biological system for the treatment of organic wastes. The process incorporates bio-augmentation, whereby specific bacterial formulations tailored to the waste product are introduced into the system. The bacterial cultures used in the formulations are naturally occurring organisms that have been selected, isolated and cultured. Each formulation is specifically blended to suit the precise nature of the effluent and the conditions prevailing at the site.

The introduction of the formulation into the system optimizes and controls the treatment, increasing the overall efficiency of the treatment process. This ensures that maximum resource recovery is achieved producing:

Top quality single cell protein
High Nitrogen organic fertilizer
Clean biogas free of sulfur
Effluent polishing with algae as a carbon sink
Recyclable water

The result is a “closed loop” waste management system.

An Example of the ET Process at work:

At an ethanol plant generating 100 million gallons per year of ethanol from corn, all the energy requirements of the distillery can be supplied by the biogas (at over 80% methane content) generated from the anaerobic digestion of the thin stillage and 20% of the whole stillage. By recycling the water rather than evaporating it, over 1 million gallons of water can be saved daily, protecting and conserving water supplies, and the capital investment requirement of the ethanol plant can be reduced by 10–15%. Finally, the biosolids generated by the ET Process are optimized and controlled to generate a single cell protein which can be used as animal or aquaculture feed. This by-product has a basic potential value of over $12 million per year to the ethanol plant, but many times that if supplied to an on-site fish farm, for example.

By incorporating the ET Process for full resource recovery, applied to the treatment of the "wastes" or "by-products" of the ethanol distillery, the Net Energy Value (NEV) of the ethanol is increased from what is currently claimed to be between 0% to 30% (at best) to over 85%, and this is not accounting for the significant savings in the distillery's capital costs, thus making ethanol a very viable alternative fuel.

As a final bonus, the ET Process can also yield carbon credits valued at between $15 to $20 million per year, according to the distillery's current waste management strategy or operating practice.

Future Developments

EversTech is continuing to refine its technology to reflect the growing demands of environmental regulations, and has developed processes for application to other environmental and waste management challenges, all based on resource recovery, sustainability and turning costs into profits.

See a more detailed description of the ET Process and Everstech's other processes.

Industrial and Agricultural Applications

Everstech's bio-engineered waste management and resource recovery technology processes have been applied successfully in a wide range of settings, including:

Abattoirs / Agriculture / Breweries / Carpet Manufacture / Cheese Processing / Cork Processing / Dairies / Distilleries / Ethanol and Biofuels Production / Food Preparation & Canning / Fruit & Vegetable Processing / General Chemicals / Laundry Effluents / Leather & Tanning / Marine Waste / Meat Processing / Oil & Grease / Paper, Pulp & Cardboard / Pharmaceuticals / Phenolic Wastes / Potato Processing