The Feedstock Machine consists of three important subsystems namely material preparation and handling, where manure is dewatered and evenly distributed to the bioreactors; bioreactors, where the manure is processed by black soldier fly larvae; and refining and processing, where harvested black soldier fly larvae are refined into protein feeds and natural oils.
Utilizing the company’s Black Soldier Fly based technology to convert manure from Ohio’s around 1.8 million market hogs could yield around 4.5 million gallons per year in natural oils for renewable fuel production and 39,000 tons of high protein animal feeds per annum.
Black Soldier Flies are clean, energy-efficient and voracious. They will consume huge quantities of feed during maturation and have a high tolerance against contaminants that would cripple algae and other bioreactor technologies.
“We designed the Feedstock Machine as a modular system that can be scaled to fit most large scale swine and poultry operations” says Glen Courtright, president and chief executive officer of EcoSystem. “We plan to conduct trials in 2009 in Ohio and Indiana with a select number of swine and poultry production facilities. These trials will provide our customers and EcoSystem with the necessary data to confirm our scale-up assumptions and to document black soldier fly based meal, oil, and casting nutritional profiles for each our customers’ feedstocks.”
