Bion Environmental Technologies Inc., an advanced livestock waste treatment technology and premium sustainable beef company, reports it has completed initial system startup at its Fair Oaks demonstration facility and is very encouraged by early operational results. Bion has already been able to operate the system at "steady state" for planned short run-times, producing purified, concentrated ammonium bicarbonate base liquid distillate from manure digestate.
Bion anticipates it will operate the integrated Ammonia Recovery System (ARS) for the next 3–4 weeks during the current operational phase — processing manure digestate. Steady state operational optimization will continue for at least an additional 8 weeks to produce repeatable operating data that supports or surpasses the existing economic models. Bion will use the optimized operating data to complete the final design of the 15,000-head modules that will make up full-scale projects, that currently include Olson Feeders, Dakota Valley Growers and Ribbonwire Ranch.