Himark BioGas has announced of receiving patent from Canadian Intellectual Property Office for its apparatus, methods and systems for processing waste.
The patent for invention is for a system for processing open-pen feedlot manure and Source Separated Organics (SSO) with hard particulates, including sand, rocks, plastic and metal.
Organic-rich waste material such as municipal waste or open-pen feedlot manure poses environmental problems when generated at a large scale.
This includes cost of disposal, health risk, and air and water contamination, which demands efficient waste handling strategies.
Due to high and variable solid content, large quantities of indigestible matter, and hard particulates, it is difficult to handle these organic wastes in environmentally and economically sustainable systems.
They can interfere with mechanical, chemical, and biological processes. Traditionally, anaerobic digestion systems could not access the large concentrations of feedstock due to the materials handling limitations of wet digesters.
The Himark HiSIS provides a hybrid approach, allowing robustness of a dry system and the optimal digestion conditions of a wet system.
It offers the only Hybrid Anaerobic Digestion system that effectively processes these mixed waste streams and the patent covers apparatus, methods, and systems to efficiently process such mixed waste through the digestion process.
Himark has already implemented this technology at anaerobic digestion plants in Canada, Growing Power Hairy Hill, which utilizes municipal solid waste and open pen feedlot manure as feedstock.
The issuance of this patent is a welcome addition to the family of patents already owned by Himark and cements its position as a game-changer in the global biogas arena, said, Evan Chrapko, CEO, Himark BioGas.
This patented technological development will play a critical role in enabling anaerobic digestion facilities around the world to effectively handle large volumes of mixed waste that was earlier not possible, added Charpko.
Sabeena Wahid