First Commercial Bluetector Manure Treatment System in Operation

LUCERNE, Switzerland, December 1, 2020 (Newswire.com) - The Swiss agtech company Bluetector has successfully commissioned its first commercial BlueBox plant for manure treatment at a livestock farm in Germany. The compact container-based plant treats 60 tons of pig manure per day and converts it into water on a purely biological basis. Thanks to Bluetector's BlueBox, up to 350.000 gallons of treated water can be applied to one hectare. The use of Bluetector's low-cost technology solves the most serious environmental problems in agriculture and enables farmers to greatly reduce the costs of their manure management.

In limited quantities, manure is a valuable fertilizer. However, there is now so much manure that it has become a serious environmental and health problem worldwide. Bluetector's plants combine anaerobic and aerobic methods from traditional wastewater treatment with bioaugmentation and targeted anammox processes to achieve an almost complete nitrification and denitrification in the treatment of manure and biogas digestate, without the need of adding any expensive chemicals or carbon sources to maintain the biological processes. The liquid nitrogen contained in the manure is converted into harmless atmospheric nitrogen. The Bluetector technology transforms excess manure into valuable irrigation water, which has become increasingly scarce and expensive in recent years. Where there are large local manure surpluses, Bluetector's systems for manure treatment can support the natural nitrogen cycle and convert excess liquid nitrogen into atmospheric nitrogen. This protects the soil and groundwater and avoids expensive and environmentally harmful manure transports.

"The commissioning of our first commercial manure treatment plant in Germany is an important milestone for us," says David Din, founder and CEO of Bluetector. "Our BlueBox enables livestock farms and Cafos to easily convert their manure into water using our low-cost bioreactor without the need for expensive and maintenance-intensive processes such as evaporation or reverse osmosis. We are now looking for partners to bring our groundbreaking and low-cost manure treatment technology to the U.S.," says David Din, founder and CEO of Bluetector. "We want to build our containerized system in the U.S. and grow a nationwide maintenance infrastructure with our partners." Bluetector offers turnkey plants for the treatment of 100 tons of manure per day from as little as USD 470,000. Due to the purely biological functionality, the operating costs of Bluetector's plants are low. The power consumption is less than 15 kWh per ton of hog manure.

Source: Bluetector Ltd.