AnaeCo is pleased to announce that its patent “Method and Apparatus for Aerating Organic Waste Material” has now been approved by the Unites State Patents andTrademark Office.

The patent describes a unique method of Hyperbaric composting that utilises pressurised air to aerate organic material rather than the conventional air flow method used by existing composters. The main benefit of this hyperbaric pressure aeration is that it allows highly consolidated organic material with poor porosity to be evenly aerated thus ensuring optimum oxygen supply to microorganisms which are processing the waste. This is particularly relevant for tall in-vessel systems such as the DiCOM bioconversion process (also patented by AnaeCo). The uniform aeration and constant supply of oxygen to the microorganisms ensures maximum efficiency in organic waste bioconversion, thus ensuring the DiCOM system can convert waste organic material to a stable compost end-product in a short time frame. It also allows the DiCOM system to operate in a tall vessel, thus significantly reducing the foot-print of a DiCOM facility (2,000m2 per 75,000tpa of MSW processed). This innovative aeration technology is already deployed in the standard DiCOM bioconversion solution. 

This hyperbaric pressure aeration patent adds to AnaeCo’s growing portfolio of patents that includes the DiCOM bioconversion process itself as well as a novelbiological odour management system.

AnaeCo has strategies to commercially exploit its intellectual property in the broader market and not just restrict the application to DiCOM product development. Many ofthese patented technologies can be applied to directly enhance existing biological
methods of organic waste bioconversion and commercial exploitation will be chieved through licensing arrangements. Intellectual Property innovation,development and exploitation has been identified as one of four facets and revenue streams in AnaeCo’s business model.

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 Grant of United States Patent