Managing Excessive Waste Nutrients is a Colossal Problem!

Farms and Food & Beverage Industries are under strict regulations for waste management - still, unmanageable algae blooms from excessive waste nutrients are causing human and environmental health issues as well as losses in water-related industries and related real estate businesses. THEY ARE ALL SEEKING A BETTER SOLUTION!

Livestock and poultry on the largest factory farms produced 369 million tons of manure in 2012 — almost 13 times more than the 312 million people in the United States.[1] This 13.8 billion cubic feet of manure is enough to fill the Dallas Cowboys stadium 133 times.[2] Household waste produced in most U.S. communities is treated through municipal sewer systems, but factory farm manure is stored in lagoons and ultimately applied, untreated, to farm fields as fertilizer (Food & Water Watch). Globally, about one-third of food is wasted: 1.6bn tonnes of produce per year, with a value of about $1 trillion. If this wasted food were stacked in 20-cubic-meter skips, it would fill 80 million of them, enough to reach all the way to the moon and encircle it once over[3].

[1] USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. 2012 Census of Agriculture. United States Summary and State Data at Tables 11, 12 and 20; Food & Water Watch calculation comparing human and livestock waste production based on EPA (2004) at 9.
[2] USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. “Agricultural Waste Management Field Handbook.” Chapter 4, Agricultural Waste Characteristics. March 2008 at 4-12 to 4-20; Dallas Cowboys. [Press release]. “Dallas Cowboys Stadium Design Statement.” December 12, 2006.
[3] Half of all US food produce is thrown away.The Guardian. Jul 2016


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Our Solution: GSR Nutrient Recovery Value Platforms

GSR's patented, scalable, bolt-on platform changes the waste nutrient management game - it converts the rapidly growing problem of excessive nutrients into an enormous opportunity by generating new revenue sources from recovered nutrients and saving on treatment costs both nationwide and worldwide. GSR's process combines cutting edge technological advances with mass production of the fastest growing biomass feeding on excess nutrients to convert waste into valued products for the fastest growing food, water, and energy markets.

Food & beverage Industries and Livestock farms generating wastes and effluents containing excessive nutrients are our potential partners. They are required to meet standards for the handling and recycling of wastewater nutrients per guidelines from state and federal regulatory agencies.

TECHNOLOGIES

We provide GSR-AD-BOLT,TM GSR-FLO,TM and GSR-BCTM technology options to host sites to address their unique nutrient management needs.


GSR-AD-BOLTTM

The GSR-AD-BOLTTM system is designed to benefit dairy farms, industries (such as food & beverage and breweries), and municipalities operating anaerobic digesters. GSR-AD-BOLTTM is efficient in recovering nitrogen and phosphorus from digested effluent, further reducing the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) of anaerobically treated effluent, enabling the production of valued byproducts including soil amendments, fertilizer, and fuel. This system enhances the economic and environmental performance of digesters as demonstrated in our pilot trials utilizing dairy and industrial effluents, supported by our partners.

Project sites: 1) a planning project completed in 2017; 2) a GSR-AD-BOLTTM system currently in operation integrated with a dairy farm biodigester

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GSR-FLOTM

The GSR FLOTM system is designed to recover nutrients without going through the anaerobic digestion process to address hosting sites that have no operating on-site digesters. Current potential sites are dairy farms, industries (such as food & beverage and breweries), and municipalities. GSR-FLOTM is efficient in recovering nitrogen and phosphorus, further reduces the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) of waste effluent significantly, and produces valued byproducts including fertilizer and fuel, as demonstrated in our pilot trials utilizing dairy and industrial effluents.

Project sites: 1) a planning project for a brewery completed; 2) a planning project for a dairy farm operation in progress


GSR-BCTM

The GSR BCTM process is designed to utilize biochar produced from any type of biomass such as wood and crop residues - both field or processing residues, yard waste, food waste, animal manure, municipal waste, etc. Biochar is made utilizing a thermal decomposition of biomass via pyrolysis or gasification. The gaseous and liquid byproducts are used for producing biofuel. GSR utilizes biochar or biochar-like materials in its processes and for producing a variety of products for the agriculture industry, especially for enhancing soil health.

How Our Technology Works

Commonly used anaerobic biodigester systems for the treatment of waste are effective mostly in treating the biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), but not nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) removal. This effluent coming out of biodigesters needs to be further treated before it can be recycled at a farm or discharged into water streams as per water quality regulations, and several host sites cannot manage such a system.

GSR's bio-based technology serves sites both with or without a digester. After the pre-treatment process, GSR utilizes advanced microbial-based biomass, which is relatively quick to grow, as its microalgal component captures nutrients and carbon dioxide, utilizing the symbiotic potential between microbial communities.

This bio-based process is responsible for the removal of effluent components from wastewater. The mature biomass material is separated and processed into target molecules and products, and the clean water is recycled. Some of our proprietary processes also utilize other bio-based materials such as biochar.


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Our Solution: GSR Renewable Energy Value Platforms

GSR's patented, scalable, bolt-on platform changes the bioenergy production game - it converts the rapidly growing problem of excessive nutrients into an enormous opportunity by generating new revenue sources from recovered nutrients and saving on treatment costs both nationwide and worldwide. GSR's process combines cutting edge technological advances with mass production of the fastest growing biomass feeding on excess nutrients to convert waste into valued products for the fastest bioenergy markets.

Food & beverage Industries and Livestock farms generating wastes and effluents containing excessive nutrients are our potential partners. They are required to meet standards for the handling and recycling of wastewater nutrients per guidelines from state and federal regulatory agencies.

TECHNOLOGIES

We provide GSR-AD-EE2TM and GSR-AD-EE2-OILTM technology options to host sites to address their unique nutrient management needs.


GSR-AD-EE2TM

GSR-AD-EE2TM are unique anaerobic digesters (AD) with enhanced economic and environmental (EE2) performance for generating biogas-based products (e.g., RNG, CHP, cow bedding), and converting digestate into valued products (e.g., biogas, fuel, fertilizer, and feed). GSR has been developing its digester arm for offering these as well as other digester options.

Project sites: 1) a planning project for a biodigester at a dairy farm operation (Agreements/MoU in place); 2) multiple dairy farm projects in planning phase

GSR-AD-EE2-OILTM

The GSR-AD-EE2-OILTM system facilitates production of alternative liquid fuel including jet fuel and biodiesel for transportation and heating. These systems work with anaerobic digesters as well as bolt on to non-AD operations. This system is one of GSR’s projects that was one of the three national Farm to Fly F2F2 initiatives supported by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Department of Energy, and Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuel Initiative (CAAFI).

Project sites: a planning project completed in 2017, next phase currently in progress.

How Our Technology Works

GSR offers unique solutions to rethink how digesters are designed and operated, to maximize the economic and environmental performance of digesters, and to convert unmanageable waste nutrient effluents from digesters into many high-value marketable products.



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