Biomass compressor reduces weight and volume

A company in Fort Lauderdale, Florida is introducing a machine to compress raw biomass, such as fruit and vegetable waste, restaurant food waste and others.

BTX Holdings says testing of its BRT, or BioReduction, machine has been completed. The company passed a variety of biomass wastes through the machine. On each test, the BRT reduced the weight and volume of the waste by over 50%. The company is now prepared to begin its marketing efforts.

The reduction results in a waste disposal cost savings for the customer, the company said.

Waste streams are fed into the machine so that the free water and other liquefied material can be extracted. The output is in the form of two streams; the first being a nutrient rich liquid which can be used in ethanol production, sold as fertilizer, or disposed of into the sewage system. The second stream consists of the solid waste which is less than 50% of its original weight and volume. It can then be disposed of using traditional methods, sold as animal fodder or fertilizer, or further processed to create other products.

BTX Holdings was established in 2003 to develop and use technologies from around the world to process plant waste, extract the usable fractions, and then utilize or sell those extractions in further downstream processes. Many of these waste streams have traditionally been disposed of either by dumping into landfills or by burning.

BTX has acquired, developed or is in the process of acquiring several extraction and separation technologies which can process this waste to derive value added products, such as alternative energy feedstocks, cellulose, fiber, oils and essences, and others.

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