ABOUT BIO-TRONIC ENERGY-CA, LLC (BTE-CA)
THE IMPORTANCE OF MAXIMIZING METHANE CAPTURE FROM ORGANIC WASTES
Our mission: Deliver innovative, cost- and time‑effective technologies and services for boosting methane capture and improving monitoring, control, stability, and performance of new and existing digester systems, all types, sizes, and feedstocks. SHARE technologies and know-how with global digester community.
“Methane is the next crucial, fast, climate-stabilization prize. There’s simply nothing that comes close for securing our near-term climate future…”
– Rick Duke, Special Envoy for Climate
“Cutting methane emissions is the single fastest, most effective way there is to slow the rate of warming right now.”
– Ilissa Ocko, Senior Climate Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund
“Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential approximately 28 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100-year period.”
– United States Environmental Protection Agency
“Cutting methane is the strongest lever we have to slow Climate Change over the next 25 years…We need international cooperation to urgently reduce methane emissions as much as possible this decade.”
– Inger Andersen, Executive Director of United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
“Methane is 84 times more damaging than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period.”
– https://www.iea.org/reports/methane-tracker-2021/methane-and-climate-change International Energy Agency (IEA)
The Role of Anaerobic Digesters in Reducing Methane Emissions
When organic materials are left to decompose naturally in oxygen-free (anaerobic) environments like landfills and manure lagoons, methane-generating microorganisms (“methanogens”) digest some of the material and produce and release a biogas consisting primarily of methane and carbon dioxide (CO2).
Anaerobic digesters allow that process to take place in a closed environment, with capture of the resulting methane and CO2.
Combusting captured methane for useful uses such as heat, fuel, or electricity converts it mainly to carbon dioxide, water vapor, and heat, thereby greatly reducing near-term climate impact compared with allowing uncontained decomposition releasing methane to the atmosphere.
BTE-CA’s iBB technologies can accelerate the digestion process and increase biogas production with higher methane content at existing and new digesters.
How We Work With Digester Owner/Operator Clients
- Feasibility Study 9 (pre-project) to assess current system performance, identify issues, outline potential solutions, estimate potential for improvement in digester methane capture obtainable through the iBB System technology (3-4 weeks)
- Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement
- Digester owner provides information on digester plant and current plant performance
- Bio-Tronic Energy provides information on iBB process
- Site visit is helpful
- Feasibility Report: Estimated potential for improving biogas production quantity and quality (percentage CH4, CO2, H2S content) through iBB System technology, cost and timeline. Suggested locations for iBB unit placement and connection.
- Technology, equipment, and services for Feasibility Studies and digester performance improvement projects are provided on negotiated project- specific basis