Waste Treatment of Organic Wastes (1)
The Americans, Russians and the Europeans, in the race
for space, now work together and exchange information for the long-term benefit
of mankind. The extremely high cost of funding space programmes, must have a
direct benefit to the terrestrial environment. Extensive environmental research
into cleaner ways of dealing with waste is just one product from these
programmes coming back to Earth.
The treatment of waste and particularly organic wastes
has long been in the eye of scientists and technologists. More importantly, due
to the ever-increasing demand and requirement to be sustainable, new technology
must be found to deal with the complex issues around the disposal of organic
wastes. In over a half a century of manned space flight, along with man’s quest
to venture further a field into Space, it has been necessary to find solutions
of how to deal with human and inedible organic waste. The development of closed
and sterile systems in a spacecraft, has led to the physicochemical approach to
waste recycling within a Life Support System – LSS.
One such technology, the patent is offered for sale and
currently being used in manned space flight and the International Space
Station, is also to be used in future manned missions to the Moon and Mars, has
now been made available for the first time, through MPCEE, to be developed for
the global marketplace. It has already been approved for use in the
colonisation of both the Moon and Mars.
The importance of environmentally sound technologies in
sustainable development, along with environmental protection and pollution
control of our fragile environment, has to be the sound basis for our future
long-term existence. Furthermore, it is absolutely necessary to ensure that any
future technology is not just regarded as best practice, but it is sound,
reliable and proven for our future needs.
Physicochemical Recycling of Wastes (the complete
technology for the treatment of organic wastes)
The Offer
(Suitable Partners Required)
The
scientists and technologists involved in producing this technology, recognised leaders
in their respective fields, have taken 30 years to develop this method of
recycling waste for Space use. It is proven and tested to the very highest of
standards in a clinical and sterile environment for such use in Space. My
clients are the owners of the patent and now would like to offer it in the
terrestrial environment for global commercialisation. They seek a suitable
partner or partners, but due to other projects they have no desire to
commercialise it themselves. On offer is the purchase of the patent, along with
full documentation, working models and full support for its global development.
Short Description (background and fundamental understanding)
The
problem concerning invention of closed ecosystems for space purposes has been
studied for about fifty years. These studies comprise two main approaches:
- Concerning physicochemical and
- Biological regeneration of physiological
human wastes inter alia dead-end wastes.
The
approaches in question have been developed for a long time, as alternative and
only in the last three decades there gradually has been elaborated a conception
of the fact that a judicious combination of the above mentioned approaches
leads to a creation of a new generation of LSS i.e. the one with a higher level
of ring closure, increased reliability and flexibility of application in space
missions of variable duration.
Thereby,
it doesn’t deem expedient to study the aspects of the physicochemical and
biological regeneration of the dead-end wastes in an isolate way, but rather in
a complex way i.e. interaction of the above mentioned approaches with a view to
create a new generation of hybrid physico-bio-chemical LSS. These hybrid LSS
contingently fall into two categories:
- LSS with dominating physicochemical
approaches of wastes’ recycling;
- LSS with dominating biological
approaches of wastes’ recycling.
The
hybrid LSS of the first type can be applied in space missions (e.g. earth
orbital space station, missions to the Moon and Mars). The hybrid LSS of the second type can be
used for fixed human settlements on the Moon, Mars and for the future long
duration space missions to remote planets in the Solar system. Besides, such
LSS can be applied on terrestrial Earth as they satisfy severe conditions of a
high level of ring closure of mass-exchange processes.
Today
considerable progress has been made in the elaboration of physicochemical
approaches to LSS, which has made possible an extended stay of humans at
orbital space stations. Therefore the creation and development of the hybrid
LSS with deployment of physicochemical approaches is very much of current
interest.
At the
same time little attention had been paid to the creation of subsidiary (and
subject to imbedding into biological LSS, incl. human) physicochemical
approaches to the recycling of wastes. However, recently, the urgency of such
creations has greatly increased. This is geared to an active development of
space programs, incl. colonization of the Moon and Mars.
Environmental
pollution is another big problem. The creation of non-waste technology, based
on the physicochemical approaches of recycling wastes could help in solving
this problem. Therefore, the creation of the physicochemical approaches to
recycling human wastes (the results can be added to a biological cycle) has
been of current interest concerning its space as well as its terrestrial
application.
My
clients have elaborated a highly efficient, ecologically pure and sufficiently
safe approach to the recycling of plant wastes and human exometabolites, with a
further run of the physicochemical recycling results in the inner mass-exchange
of bio LSS. Such an approach is to be utilized as additional and against the
wastes incapable of biodegradation, with a view of their further run in the
inner mass-exchange of wastes. Laboratory-based experiments have shown a number
of important results which afford the grounds to assume that the approach in
question is a candidate for hybrid LSS. Some of the above mentioned important
results are the following:
- They have invented a breadboard sample
of the unit on physicochemical recycling of plant wastes, human solid and
liquid excretory products in (30%) hydrogen peroxide being activated by
means of altering an electric field. The result of such recycling is the
oxidation of the wastes by means of atomic oxygen. The process runs in the
reactor at 80-90o C and atmosphere pressure. The power consumption in
economy mode has been 15-20 W. The approach in question stands out in
comparison to the existing thermal combustion approaches by means of it’s
ecological cleanness, power efficiency and higher safety due to “softer”
requirements to the environmental parameters.
- Hydrogen peroxide required for the
process can be derived from the intersystem water, volume of which in the
bio LSS is sufficient. Due to their analysis, energy input concerning
production of the intersystem hydrogen peroxide is approximately 10% from
energy input concerning plant cultivation with a view to supply humans
with oxygen and plant food.
- There is shown a possibility of the
above-mentioned unit to mineralize inedible plant biomass till the plants
can easily assimilate it. In particular 1 gr. of the native wheat straw,
mineralized in 18 ml. of hydrogen peroxide gives 50 gr. of residuum, which
appears due to over-mineralization of the solution. As for mineralization
of inedible vegetable biomass, hydrogen input becomes half as much.
Residuum after being dissolved in 3 l. of condensate water can be utilized
in plants’ mineral nutrition [My client’s scientific papers expound on
this].
- The species’ differences of the plants
to be utilized in the structure of the photosynthetic unit of LSS, does
not impede the proposed physicochemical approach to recycling of such
species’ inedible biomass (leaves, stalks, roots) till the mineralized
solution, which is easily assimilated by the plants. In which case the
duration of the process phases of such recycling, power input, expenditure
of chemical agents and other process parameters do not have dramatic
differences.
- There is shown a possibility of
utilization of the approach in question in mineralization of human solid
and liquid excretory products. The input of hydrogen peroxide in
mineralization of 1 gr. of human native solid and liquid excretory
products has amounted up to 0.5 gr. and 2.0 gr. accordingly. The results
of mineralization of human solid excretory products are fully dissolvable
in water and can be utilized as an adjunct to plants’ food solution.
- There is an emission of ammonia and
hydrogen during the process of plants’ wastes and human exometabolites.
Ammonia is fixed during the pass through acidified water; hydrogen is
oxidized by means of a platinum catalyst till water. The emissions of
other gazes have not been found.
- All the results achieved by means of the
approach in question are fully sterile.
The
given data shows that the approach in question is challenging in its use in bio
LSS, as it’s final recycling results can run in the intersystem biological cycle.
The aim
of this work is the invention of a workable specimen of an ecologically clean,
energy efficient and safe unit concerning waste recycling in LSS (incl. Human).
Achieved results
The
results demonstrated a practical possibility in the construction of a hybrid
LSS, based on the use of the physicochemical approach as additional to
biological approaches, to synthesis and degradation of the agent in the
intersystem mass-exchange process. This shall raise the level of circularity of
the mass-exchange process in the LSS, intended for long-term individual
operation outside the biosphere. The technologies elaborated in this project
can be used in fixed stations on the Moon and Mars.
The
results of the conducted research can be as well utilized in the terrestrial
applications. Such results can become a basement for the elaboration of an
ecologically clean approach to the recycling of organic wastes, for example in
the food industry, medicine and agriculture. Thus there is evidence that such a
technology is of a commercially viable interest.
Examples
of Suitable Field Applications (not exhaustive)
ü Medicine
(inter alia infectious sewage treatment)
ü Marine/Submarine
(each year the IMO imposes stricter standards: all vessels including yachts)
ü Aviation/aeronautical
(aircraft)
ü Spacecraft
(e.g. LSS)
ü Public
and Domestic Sewerage Installations
ü Waste
Treatment of Surface Waters
ü Industrial
(Paper Industry; Food Industry; Agriculture)
What does the Technology do?
The technology
used for the recycling organic waste is by utilizing a method that not only
purifies the said waste, but also produces a fertilizer solution. The
operational process purifies wastes, produces distilled water and the value
added end products are fertilizer for growing plants for food and water to
drink.
The
Advantages
Ø Proven Space Technology for
Terrestrial Use
Ø Clean, Safe and Secure Treatment
and Recycling of Organic Wastes
Ø Environmentally Sound Technology
(Biotechnology)
Ø Cleaner Industries – Cleaner
Environment
Ø Global Opportunities for Production
Ø
Genuine
Investment to Commercialise a Patented Technology
MPCEE has been contracted to work closely with the lawyers
representing the patent holders of this technology, to identify a suitable
partner or partners who would purchase the patent and associated documentation
etc of this technology for global commercialisation. The sale price indicated
represents the importance of the technology and that the clients have no
intention to commercialise the technology themselves.
For more information on the requirements to purchase this
technology and its patent, please contact MPCEE in the first instance to
arrange the appropriate due diligence formalities:
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