Dairy Waste

SWBEC has a collaboration with the Caine Research Dairy, affiliated with Utah State University, in treating their waste using rotating algal biofilm reactors installed in lagoon style treatment plants.

We are looking at Cyanobacteria production on these reactors to extract phycocyanins, a therapeutic with several uses. There is also some patented technology to use algal biofilm produced on these reactors to derive meso-biliverdin, a biosimilar product to biliverdin-IX?, a therapeutic used for its antioxidant and immunosuppressant properties.

We are also using UASBs to test cow manure as feed that has a unique proprietary blend of methanogens, and this testing is yielding promising results.

Abstract: T383 Ruminal fermentation characteristics of lactation dairy diets with different forage

Biofuels, Dairy Waste, Hydraulic Fracturing, Municipal Wastewater, Swine Waste

Rotating algal biofilm reactor generates biomass in dairy wastewater

Biofuels, Dairy Waste, Hydraulic Fracturing, Municipal Wastewater, Swine Waste

Optimization of a wet microalgal lipid extraction procedure for improved lipid recovery for biofuel and bioproduct production

Biofuels, Hydraulic Fracturing

Lipid-Protein Extraction from Wastewater Cultivated Algae for Animal Feed: Optimization and Characterization

Biofuels, Dairy Waste