BIO-ELECTRONIC INNOVATION

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The iBB System

A process comprising biotechnologies, hardware, and software

Developed specifically to realize the full energetic potential of organic wastes by prioritizing increase of a digester’s production of biogas and methane content as much as possible

Adds direct biological process management in iBB reactors to whole-digester system process control.

Accelerates and stabilizes each digester system’s methanogenic processes to increase biogas production and percentage methane content.

Uses only microbes from samples from host digester system and standard nutrients and micronutrients.

Can be applied at digester systems of any size, design, feedstock or combinations.

Complements and enhances host system-control and pre- and post-treatment measures managing host digester efficiency.

Provides multiple operational and environmental benefits

Housed in container-sized unit sited near host digester, operating off-line of digester but connected to it.

iBB fermenter tanks can be located outside of iBB housing.

Can be integrated in new digester project design for space, capital cost, and performance efficiencies.

Graphic Video illustrating Positioning, Scale, and Main Components of iBB System at a Two-Tank Digester System (fermenters positioned outside container)

What an iBB System Does

Combines bioacceleration and bioaugmentation to increase a digester system’s biological efficiency, resiliency, and methane capture

Accelerates Microbial Multiplication

Rapidly multiplies and sustains microbial populations already present in a digester’s microbiome central to the methanogenic process.

Enhances Microbial Resilience

Improves stability and resilience of digester system’s native methane-producing microbial populations

Boosts Methane Capture

Accelerates and increases a digester’s production of biogas with higher methane content

[See Applications tab for Aerobic and Other Bioconversion Processes]

How iBB Systems Work

iBB Systems use bioacceleration and bioaugmentation approaches to improve digester performance.

Sample Withdrawal

Samples (1-3 cubic meters each) of a digester’s organic material are regularly withdrawn and sent to the iBB unit for analysis and methanogen enrichment.

Accelerated Microbial Growth

Under optimized conditions — using only indigenous microbes present in the sample, and common chemicals, nutrients, and micronutrients — iBB Systems accelerate reproduction of methane-producing microbes, increasing populations in the sample as much as 100,000 times or more in a few days.

Bioaugmentation

Each enriched sample is returned to the digester system, bioaugmenting the digester system’s microbiome with boosted populations of its own native microbes.

Ongoing Cycle

The cycle repeats, building and sustaining the digester’s methanogenic microbiome and biogas production with higher methane content.

Phased Digester Systems

Multiple separate coordinated iBB Units can continually manage different microbial populations optimized for each phase or for combined phases of biogas production.