Results to date at Fair Oaks have exceeded expectations. Our small commercial-scale Ammonia Recovery System has been optimized for animal waste and is ready to begin the final design process for full-scale animal waste systems. 

The ARS is Bion’s patented core technology. It isolates the ammonia in the waste stream after methane is produced from organic waste in an anaerobic digester (AD). That ammonia is volatile and mobile and without treatment most escapes to the environment – a loss of resource value and now a significant source of air and water pollution. 

In Bion’s ARS, the highly problematic ammonia  associated with biomethane production is captured, stabilized with CO2 from the waste stream, and upcycled into high value organic and low carbon nitrogen fertilizers and clean water.

AD is used worldwide to produce biogas from organic waste streams of all kinds: livestock, food and food processing, slaughter and packing waste, and others. Bion recently received a new patent that broadens the ARS coverage to include organic waste streams from industrial and municipal sources.