The Ammonia Recovery System (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.

We recently completed optimization of our small commercial-scale demonstration facility at Fair Oaks, Indiana. Its performance exceeded expectations. The ARS is now ready for the final design process of a full-scale commercial system. In June, we released our Technology-Optimization Report that demonstrates the ARS is stable, reliable, and scalable. Click here for a Summary of the Report including its conclusions. The full report can be obtained from Bion under non-disclosure agreement.

Anaerobic Digestion is used worldwide to produce biogas from organic waste streams of all kinds: manure, that our ARS was developed for; industrial, including food waste, food/beverage processing, slaughter/packing, biofuels; and municipal wastewater. Bion’s most recent patent broadened the ARS coverage to include these other waste streams. We are pursuing opportunities to deploy the ARS as a stand-alone or ‘bolt-on’ ammonia control and fertilizer production solution for all organic waste streams, but with a focus on manure and industrial.

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.