Westminster, CA – August 25, 2020 – BioLargo, Inc. (OTCQB:BLGO), developer of sustainable technologies and a full-service environmental engineering company, announced today that its first municipal wastewater treatment demonstration pilot of its AOS and AEC water treatment technologies will take place at a wastewater treatment plant near Montréal, Québec. Experts in water treatment and technology development from the Centre des Technologies de L’Eau (CTE) will supervise and validate the performance of the pilot on-site.
The purpose of the pilot is to assess BioLargo’s proprietary water treatment technologies – the Advanced Oxidation System (AOS) and Aqueous Electrostatic Concentrator (AEC) – as effective, cost-efficient, and complementary solutions for disinfecting and eliminating a broad range of recalcitrant contaminants from municipal wastewater in an operating wastewater treatment plant. The AOS and AEC have previously been shown to effectively remove hard-to-treat contaminants such as pharmaceutical pollutants, as well as other micropollutants like per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), respectively.
This
new pilot comes shortly after the successful conclusion of the company’s first
demonstration pilot for the AOS technology at a poultry farm and processing
facility near Edmonton, Alberta, where the technology was proven capable of
providing effective and affordable treatment of poultry wastewater to the U.S.
EPA’s safe water discharge standards. In keeping with BioLargo’s business plan,
the company next sought to demonstrate the technology in a municipal wastewater
treatment application.
The
joint AOS/AEC demonstration pilot is funded in part by the Canadian Natural
Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), through an Applied Research
and Development (ARD) program grant, which will provide $225,000 CAD for the
project. BioLargo’s engineers and scientists are building the AOS and AEC units
for the pilot, and hope to have them installed and running by the end of
October. Because of the pilot’s scope, the company expects to report initial
results in the first quarter of 2021.
BioLargo
Water President Dr. Richard Smith commented. “This is an extremely exciting
pilot for us. The BioLargo AOS and AEC technologies have the potential to
provide myriad benefits to municipal wastewater treatment operators, including
reducing operating costs, greater breadth of treatment capabilities, and
greater energy efficiency.”
The CTE is a recognized college research center for technology transfer attached to the college of Saint-Laurent in Montreal, Quebec. The mission of CTE is to carry out applied research and development activities, technical assistance, and information dissemination in the field of water technologies. The pilot project is led by the CTE researcher Dr. Rimeh Daghrir, expert in the development of advanced electrochemical technology and the remediation of micro-pollutants from water.
Dr.
Daghrir commented, “We are very excited to help move the AOS program along to
commercialization. These pilot assays will generate real-time data to show the
AOS performance in a real wastewater stream. This AOS innovative technology
developed by BioLargo Water is positioned in the water treatment market as an
effective and cost-efficient tool for the disinfection and the decontamination
of persistent organic pollutants such as the residual of pharmaceutical
products. Certainly, this advanced pilot combining AOS technology to AEC system
offers an innovative and sustainable solution to problems of water conservation
and high cost of industrial water use because it is an extremely powerful,
safe, and cost-effective water treatment platform. Thanks to this successful
collaboration with BioLargo, funded by NSERC, we have succeeded in training
highly qualified experts and graduating students from the Department of Water
Technology of the College Saint-Laurent in the environmental electro-technology
field.”
About BioLargo, Inc.
BioLargo, Inc. is an innovator of technology-based products and
environmental engineering solutions provider driven by a mission to “make life
better”. We feature unique disruptive
solutions to deliver clean air, clean water and a clean, safe environment (www.biolargo.com). Our
engineering division features experienced professional engineers dedicated to
integrity, reliability, and environmental stewardship (www.biolargoengineering.com). Our
industrial odor control division, ONM Environmental, Inc. (www.onmenvironmental.com) features
CupriDyne Clean Industrial Odor Eliminator (www.cupridyne.com), which
eliminates the odor-causing compounds and VOCs rather than masking them, and is
now winning over leading companies in the solid waste handling and wastewater
industries and other industries that contend with malodors and VOCs. Our
subsidiary BioLargo Water (www.biolargowater.ca) develops
the Advanced Oxidation System "AOS," a disruptive industrial water
treatment technology designed to eliminate waterborne pathogens and
recalcitrant contaminants with better energy-efficiency and lower operational
costs than incumbent technologies. We are a minority stockholder of and technology
licensor to our subsidiary Clyra Medical which features its breakthrough
product Clyraguard ( www.clyramedical.com/clyraguard), an FDA
Registered, hospital grade disinfectant for personal protective equipment
including facemasks, proven 99.999% effective and safe for skin, as well as its
other products offering gentle solutions for chronic infected wounds to promote
infection control and regenerative tissue therapy.
Contact Information
Dennis P. Calvert
President and CEO, BioLargo, Inc.
888-400-2863
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