Bion Environmental Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: BNET): Providing Solutions to the Agriculture Industry
Bion Environmental Technologies Inc. (BNET), headquartered in New York City, provides a comprehensive animal waste management system that reclaims energy and nutrients from the livestock (dairy/cattle) waste stream and eliminates most of their environmental impact. They then produce renewable energy from the livestock waste stream. Founded in 1987 and trading on the OTCBB, Bion is part of the Pollution and Treatment Controls industry. Through their subsidiaries, the company focuses on the continuing development of their waste management technology, which provides environmental solutions to the agriculture industry in the United States.
Bion provides their solutions to large-scale animal farming operations such as dairy, cattle feedlot, and hogs for integration of renewable energy production, ethanol production, animal husbandry, and organic soil/fertilizer and feed production. The company’s technology recovers renewable energy from the waste in a process that is much different from other technologies. Bion’s process extracts the cellulosic biomass to produce a combustible solid fuel that replaces the use of fossil fuels in enterprises’ integrated projects.
The company’s platform removes up to 95 percent of the nutrients in the wastewater effluent and reduces ammonia emissions by greater than 90 percent. With air and water pollution from confined animal feeding operations reduced to low levels, high-density livestock operations can proceed on a scale large enough (50,000+ head) to efficiently integrate them with biofuel/ethanol production.
With cleanup of the waste streams of large-scale animal farming operations, the company’s processes help with the integration of farming activities. The company’s solutions allow agribusinesses to integrate their activities in a state-of-the-art facility. This reduces transportation costs and maximizes market opportunities. These state-of-the-art facilities incorporate onsite production and use of co-products, including renewable energy produced from the livestock wastes, to replace the natural gas requirements of an enterprise. This produces significant advantages in environmental, energy, and economic efficiency.
On June 23, Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. outlined the capabilities and performance of their comprehensive livestock environmental treatment technology compared to anaerobic digesters. Anaerobic or methane digestion (AD), used to produce energy from livestock waste since the late 1800s, is based on a biological process that produces biogas. It normally contains roughly 60 percent methane. Bion’s Environmental Management System simultaneously (with scale) recovers substantially more renewable energy than AD.
The company continues to develop their solutions that can help agribusinesses operate efficiently and take advantage of environmentally sound processes.
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