Waste Management and Resource Recovery

Of the numerous environmental problems around the globe, many are attributable to man. Two problems in particular, that are as a direct result of man’s growing needs, are the use of energy, thus the depletion of finite resources, and the generation of waste—pollution.

More recently, two further problems have come to the fore, that of the disposal of the bio-sludges from waste treatment, and the transmission of disease, concentration of toxic compounds and antibiotics, by meat and fish as a result of the practice of animal and fish feed proteins being supplied by the inclusion of meat and fish meals made from such processed waste.

All these problems are addressed in the ET Process.

EversTech’s objective is to protect the environment through biotechnology, by means of bio-engineered waste management and resource recovery technology, in order to generate value added by-products, thus creating a long term net benefit, from the combination of a profitable income stream, and the elimination or significant reduction of waste disposal costs.

Our strategy is to identify and solve specific pollution problems involving:

The ET Process is EversTech’s key technology. It is a biological system for the treatment of organic wastes. The process incorporates bio-augmentation, whereby specific bacterial formulations tailored to the waste 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.

By introducing the formulation into the system, the treatment is optimised and controlled, thereby increasing the overall efficiency of the treatment process. This ensures that maximum resource recovery is achieved producing:

For Example

At a milk products processing plant discharging washwater and whey with an average COD in excess of 20,000 mg/l, a 2 year study and pilot trial was completed in early 2004, and the client is now proceeding with the full scale implementation of the Everstech ET Process, and it will be fully on stream in the first half of 2005. It will replace an existing treatment plant, but will utilise the existing tanks, and the conversion to the scPROcess allows the organic waste load, as COD, to be increased some ten-fold.

The economics are such that the income from the effluent plant biosolids, optimised as single cell protein, and dried on site to produce a quality product, together with the projected savings in current waste disposal costs, will give a 12–18 month pay-back, and will yield a net annual benefit to the company equivalent to the profit from increasing the current turnover of the site by some $20 million.

Future Developements

EversTech is continuing to refine its technology to reflect the growing demands of environmental lobbies, and changing legislation.

A key area of further research and development into economical process improvement, and one of the aspects is the pathogen elimination from biomass solids due to the increasing awareness of agricultural needs. We have already demonstrated that the ET Process can eliminate such pathogens as E.Coli, Campylobacter, Salmonella and Cryptospridium among others, without the need for additional heat treatment.

Applications

Abattoirs
Agriculture
Breweries
Carpet Manufacture
Cheese Processing
Cork Processing
Dairies
Distilleries
Domestic Sewage
Food Preparation & Canning
Fruit & Vegetable Processing
General Chemicals
Laundry Effluents
Leather & Tanning
Marine Waste
Meat Processing
Oil & Grease Treatment
Paint Manufacturing Effluents
Paper, Pulp & Cardboard
Pharmaceuticals
Phenolic Wastes
Potato Processing

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