Results at Fair Oaks have exceeded expectations. Our small commercial-scale Ammonia Recovery System is now optimized for animal waste and we are in final design for full-scale animal waste systems. 

The ARS is Bion’s patented core technology. It captures the ammonia released when methane is produced from organic waste in an anaerobic digester (AD). Ammonia is volatile, reactive, and mobile. Without control, most escapes to the environment – a loss of resource value and now recognized as a significant source of air and water pollution.

Once the ammonia is isolated in the ARS, it is stabilized with CO2 that is also in the waste stream, preventing both from being released into the environment. And it allows us to recover unique high-value nitrogen fertilizers that are immediately-available, organic, and low-carbon.

Anaerobic Digestion is used worldwide to produce biogas from organic waste streams of all kinds: manure; industrial sources, including slaughter/ packing, food and food processing; and municipal wastewater. Bion’s latest patent broadened the ARS coverage beyond animal waste to include industrial and municipal waste streams.

The ARS is the foundation of Bion’s Gen3Tech platform, that can provide comprehensive environmental treatment and resource recovery for large-scale livestock production. To learn more about the Gen3Tech platform, click here.