General Project Experience


PHOENIX BIO-SYSTEMS, INC.
at ICM, Inc.

310 North First Street, P.O. Box
116
Colwich, Kansas 67030

   

 

· Anaerobic · Wastewater Treatment · Groundwater · Odor ·

 · Distillery · Microbial Control ·

 

ANAEROBIC

·       Supplied skid-mounted 2-module Bio-Methanator unit to a fuel ethanol plant in Oakley, KS. Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove up to 8,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate. Unit was delivered in October 2003 and started up in January 2004 for Western Plains Energy, LLC, Oakley, Kansas.

·         Supplied skid-mounted 4-module Bio-Methanator unit to a fuel ethanol plant in Aurora, SD. Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove up to 16,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate. Unit was delivered in August 2003 and started up in November 2003 for VeraSun Energy, LLC, Aurora, South Dakota.

·        Supplied skid-mounted 2-module Bio-Methanator unit to a fuel ethanol plant in Minden, NE. Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove up to 8,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate. Unit was delivered in June 2003 and started up in November 2003 for KAAPA Ethanol, LLC, Minden, Nebraska.

·         Supplied skid-mounted Bio-Methanator unit to a fuel ethanol plant in Marcus, IA.  Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove up to 8,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate.  Unit was delivered in December 2002 and started up in April 2003 for Little Sioux Corn Processors, LLC, Marcus, Iowa .

·         Supplied skid-mounted Bio-Methanator unit to a fuel ethanol plant in Plainview, NE.   Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove up to 4,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate.  Unit was delivered in October 2002 and started up in March 2003 for Husker Ag Processing, LLC, Plainview, Nebraska .

·         Supplied skid-mounted Bio-Methanator unit to a small fuel ethanol plant in Aberdeen, SD. Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove up to 2,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate.  Unit was delivered and started up November 2002 for Heartland Grain Fuels, Inc., Aberdeen, South Dakota.

·         Supplied skid-mounted dual Bio-Methanator unit to Michigan Ethanol, LLC, a new 40 million GPY fuel ethanol plant in Vassar, MI.  Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove up to 8,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate, concentrated by R.O.  Unit was installed in one week in July 2002 and subsequently started up in 10 days in November 2002 for Broin and Associates, the engineer for Michigan Ethanol, LLC, Caro, Michigan.

·         Supplied skid-mounted, dual Bio-Methanator unit to MidWest Grain Processors, LLC, a 40 million GPY fuel ethanol plant in Lakota, IA.  Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove up to 8,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate and waste CIP water.  Unit was installed in one week in April 2002 and subsequently started up in 10 days in November 2002 for MidWest Grain Processors, LLC, Lakota, Iowa.

·    Supplied skid-mounted, dual Bio-Methanator unit to Badger State Ethanol, LLC, a 40 million GPY fuel ethanol plant in Monroe, WI.  Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove up to 8,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate and waste CIP water.  Unit was installed in one week in June 2002 and subsequently started up in 10 days in October 2002 for Badger State Ethanol, LLC, Monroe, Wisconsin.

·         Supplied skid-mounted dual Bio-Methanator unit to Tall Corn Ethanol, LLC, a new 40 million GPY fuel ethanol plant in Coon Rapids, IA. Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove up to 8,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate, concentrated by R.O.  Unit was installed in one week in March 2002 and subsequently started up in 10 days in August 2002 for Broin and Associates, the engineer for Tall Corn Ethanol, LLC, Coon Rapids, Iowa.

·    Supplied skid-mounted dual Bio-Methanator unit to Northern Lights Ethanol, LLC, a new 40 million GPY fuel ethanol plant in Big Stone City, SD.  Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove 8,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate, concentrated by R.O.  Unit was installed in one week in January 2002 and subsequently started up in 10 days in June 2002 for Broin and Associates, the engineer for Northern Lights Ethanol, LLC, Big Stone City, South Dakota.

·    Supplied skid-mounted Bio-Methanator unit to a 30 million GPY fuel ethanol plant in Claremont, Minnesota.  Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove 4.000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate.  Unit was installed in one week in February 2002 and subsequently started up in 10 days in May 2002 for Al-Corn Ethanol, Claremont, Minnesota.

·    Supplied skid-mounted, dual Bio-Methanator unit to Adkins Energy, LLC, a 36 million GPY fuel ethanol plant in Lena, IL.  Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove 8,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate and dryer stack scrubber water.  Unit was installed in one week in March 2002 and subsequently started up in 10 days in July 2002 for Lurgi PSI, the engineer for Adkins Energy, LLC, Lena, Illinois .

·    Supplied skid-mounted, dual Bio-Methanator unit to Glacial Lakes Ethanol, LLC, a 40 million GPY fuel ethanol plant in Watertown, SD.  Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove 8,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate and waste CIP water.  Unit was installed in one week in Spring 2002 and subsequently started up in 10 days in September 2002 for Glacial Lakes Ethanol, LLC, Watertown, South Dakota .

·    Supplied skid-mounted Bio-Methanator unit to a fuel ethanol plant in Bartow, FL.  Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove 4,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate.  Unit was installed and started up in less than two weeks in December 2001 for Parallel Products of Florida, Inc., Bartow, Florida.

·    Supplied skid-mounted, dual Bio-Methanator unit to Exol, LLC, a 36 million GPY fuel ethanol plant in Albert Lea, MN. Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove 8,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate and dryer stack scrubber water.  Unit was installed in one week in May 2001 and subsequently started up in 10 days in October 2001 for Broin and Associates, the engineer for Exol, LLC, Albert Lea, Minnesota.

·    Supplied skid-mounted dual Bio-Methanator unit to a new 40 million GPY fuel ethanol plant in Wentworth, SD.  Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove 8,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate and dryer stack scrubber water.  Unit was installed in one week in May 2001 and subsequently started up in 10 days in Sept 2001 for Broin and Associates, the engineer for Dakota Ethanol, LLC, Wentworth, South Dakota.

·    Supplied skid-mounted Bio-Methanator unit to a 30 million GPY fuel ethanol plant in Winthrop, Minnesota.  Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove 4,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate.  Unit was installed in one week in March 2001 and subsequently started up in 10 days in June 2001 for Heartland Corn Products (HCP), Winthrop, Minnesota.

·    Supplied skid-mounted Bio-Methanator unit to a small fuel ethanol plant in Scotland, South Dakota.  Unit was skid-mounted in ICM/Phoenix shop and designed to remove 1,000 ppd COD from evaporator condensate.  Unit was delivered and started up October, 2000 for Broin Enterprises, Inc. (BEI), Scotland, South Dakota.

·    Design Team Leader, Operations Start-up and Training Supervisor for turnkey provision of ICM/Phoenix Bio-Methanator treating 150 gpm evaporator condensate at Golden Triangle Energy, GTE, LLC, Craig, Missouri.

·         Design Team Leader, Operations Start-up and Training Supervisor for turnkey provision of ICM/Phoenix Bio-Methanator treating 150 gpm evaporator condensate at Northeast Missouri Grain Processing, NEMO, LLC, Macon, Missouri.  

·         Design Team Leader, Operations Start-up and Training Supervisor for turnkey provision of ICM/Phoenix Bio-Methanator treating 400 gpm evaporator condensate.  High Plains Corporation Fuel Ethanol Facility, York Nebraska.  Provided permit modification services (NDEQ)

·         Design Team Leader, Operations Start-up and Training Supervisor for turnkey provision of ICM/Phoenix Bio-Methanator treating 150 gpm evaporator condensate at Pro-Corn LLC, Preston, Minnesota.

·         Design Team Leader, Operations Start-up and Training Supervisor for turnkey provision of ICM/Phoenix Bio-Methanator treating 150 gpm evaporator condensate at Agri-Energy, LLC, Luverne, Minnesota.

·         Design Team Leader, Operations Start-up and Training Supervisor for turnkey provision of ICM/Phoenix Bio-Methanator treating 150 gpm evaporator condensate at Denco, LLC, Morris, Minnesota.

·         Design Team Leader and Operations Supervisor for 10,000 gallon High Rate Anaerobic Bio-Methanator at High Plains Corporation Fuel Ethanol Facility in Colwich, Kansas.

·         Develop high rate Bio-film Anaerobic Bio-System for the treatment of ethylene, diethylene, and propylene glycol wastewaters from airport stormwater run-off for A3 Environmental, Sarasota, Florida.

·         Provide complete design, operator training and start-up services of Bio-film Anaerobic Bio-System for the treatment of distillation wastewaters and reduction of sewer surcharge for ethanol distilling plant in Colorado.  Ag Power of Colorado.

·         Design, fabricate, and start-up of ICM/Phoenix Anaerobic Bio-Methanation system for the treatment of soft drink syrup production wastewaters at A.L.I. for Enviro-Care, Inc., San Juan, Puerto Rico.

·         Provide design for two-stage Wastewater Treatment system for Downflow Bio-Film Anaerobic Filtration and land application of yeast-drying operation process wastewaters for yeast processing plant in Georgia.

·         Develop, design, construction oversight and start-up of solvent Hazardous Waste Upflow Bio-Film Anaerobic system capable of 15 grams/liter/day COD destruction of overspray solvents from can making internal coating operation.  Coors Container, Golden, Colorado.

·         Developed pilot scale Downflow Bio-Film Anaerobic system capable of destruction of 30 gram/liter/day chemical oxygen demand (COD) for brewery wastewater.

·         Provide design of Fixed-Bed Upflow Anaerobic (Bio-Methanation) waste treatment facility for alcohol distillery thin stillage treatment in Louisiana.

·        Nutrient balance, process optimization, process design evaluation for operating cheese whey permeate Bio-Methanation Suspended Growth Phase reactor in Wisconsin.  Provide operations management, systems optimization and redesign for Bio-Methanation and Aerobic Sequencing Batch Reactor plants for the treatment of cheese plant wastewaters and cheese whey permeate.

·        Provide equipment, engineering, and turn-key installation of Process Control Upgrade to existing waste water anaerobic lagoon.  Ag Processing, Inc., Hastings, Nebraska. 

WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

·         Provide design basis for three-stage Wastewater Treatment facilities including Bio-Film Anaerobic, Aerobic Lagoon and Land Application system.  Assist client in obtaining wastewater (NPDES) and air quality permits from Nebraska Department of Environmental Control.

·         Optimization of six (6) MGD Brewery process waste treatment plant.  Develop and evaluate Selector Operation for process upgrade and reduction of polymer use.

·         Direct bench scale Treatability studies for the application of Sequencing Batch Reactors to brewery process waste.

·         Provide design of Aerobic Bio-filtration Modular system for treatment of landfill leachate in New York State.

·         Provide design for modular domestic wastewater treatment system for use in salt water at Bahamas Resort. Zeta Tech, Inc.

  GROUNDWATER

·         Provide treatability report and complete dual Aerobic Submerged Bio-Tower Design for treatment of groundwater contaminated with chlorinated hydrocarbons and solvents at the Lowry Superfund Site in Colorado.  Provided Modular Dual Bio-Reactor system.

·         Treatability study for the use of Downflow Bio-Film Bio-reactors for the treatment of solvent contaminated groundwaters at RCRA site in Michigan.  Upjohn/RTG, Inc., Denver/Lakewood, Colorado.

·         Develop design for in-situ Bio-Remediation of contaminated groundwater at can manufacturing facility.  Provide microorganisms capable of destruction of chlorinated hydrocarbons.  Design pilot system for in-situ injection/remediation in order to model systems for full-scale design.  Coors Container Can End Manufacturing, 44th & McIntyre, Golden, Colorado.

·         Develop data and report to Colorado Department of Health on Natural Bio-degradation in-situ of ethyl acetate and toluene in contaminated groundwater for paper packaging producer.  Graphics Packaging, Boulder, Colorado

·         Design of soil washing and Land Farming system for the remediation of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons and Oils in contaminated soils.  Coors Container, Golden, Colorado.

·         Advise engineering project teams for contaminated Groundwater Site Assessments and remediation of hydrocarbon spills.  Prepare site assessment and remediation plans for submission to regulatory authorities.  Technical advisor to Coors Project Manager in the development of remediation plans for Lowry Superfund Site.

·         Provide groundwater treatment Aerobic Upflow Biologically Activated Carbon Bio-Reactor system for treatment of BTEX contamination at UST Remediation site in Panama City, Florida.  Spectrum Environmental, Pelham, Alabama.

·         Provide design parameters and treatability for the Bio-Remediation of Petroleum Contaminated Soils and Waste Oil pit under contract to LT Environmental for a petroleum processing site near Greeley, Colorado.

·         Provide treatability for the Bio-Remediation of Waste Oil pits in Wyoming.  Treatability testing included the assessment of ex-situ Bio-reactors and the application of on-site land farming of petroleum waste pit liquor and contaminated site soil.  LT Environmental, Denver, Colorado.

 ODOR/VOC

·         Develop plan and equipment design for the treatment of hydrogen sulfide Odor and Corrosion Control in municipal wastewater systems in Florida.  Equipment design included a simple air-lift aerator for lift station application and Odor Bio-Scrubbers for hydrogen sulfide removal at master lift station.

·         Design, direct pilot operations, and provide engineering scale-up parameters for full-scale Bio-Filter for the destruction of Volatile Organic Air Emissions from aluminum can production plan.

·         Provided microbiological process and design parameters for the development of full-scale Bio-Filter designed to eliminate organic and sulfide Odors created by waste activated sludge management system in Colorado.

·         Provide design of Odor Bio-Scrubbers for fermentation plant odor emissions in Colorado.

·         Provide Odor Bio-Scrubber for stack off-gas at Agri-Energy, LLC, Luverne, Minnesota.

 DISTILLERY

·         Manage Qualification Production Trials for a 15-million gallon per year Fuel Ethanol Plant in western Nebraska in order to preserve Nebraska State Alcohol Tax Credits.  Assemble and direct complete start-up and operating team on year-end short notice.  Start-up plant and produce qualifying amount of 200° Proof fuel alcohol.  Credits were preserved.  Provided technical feasibility, economic evaluation, and recommendations to owners for disposition, sale, and/or liquidation options for the plant.

·         Provide Technical and Economic Evaluation and liquidation value study for Fuel Alcohol Plant in South Dakota under contract to professional liquidation firm.  Asset Management Inc., Miami, Florida.

·         Direct Pilot Operation (5,000 gallons per week) for the technical and economic feasibility of the recovery of USP Grade Glycerol from fuel alcohol plant thin stillage.  Investigate the application of pressure filtration, DE pre-coat vacuum filtration, ceramic micro-filtration, ultra-filtration, nano-filtration, ion exchange, and evaporator unit operations in 5,000 gpw pilot plant.  Provide operations management, process analysis, unit operations assessments, economic feasibility, and recommendations for future development and scale-up to fuel alcohol client.

·         Provide design basis for Corn Processing, Continuous Ethanol and Torula Yeast production facilities for fuel alcohol plant in Sutherland, Nebraska.  Provide mass balance, process flow, and equipment recommendations to client for application to experimental concept corn wet milling plant.

·         Contract for engineering, reconstruction, start-up and operation of 400,000 gpy Alcohol Distillation and Dehydration facility for the disposal of waste beer in Barnesville, Colorado.

·         Design, start-up of Alcohol Production and Waste Treatment Systems for potato waste-to-alcohol plant in Colorado.  Provided optimization and operation training for grain conversion, Fermentation and Waste Treatment facilities.  Developed process control lab and trained personnel.

·         Technical assessment, economic evaluation, and asset valuation of two (2) Alcohol Production Plants in Virginia.  Provided redesign specifications, equipment recommendations, and investment required to make plants operational for insurance carrier in Virginia.

   MICROBIAL CONTROL

·         Provide assessment and control measures for microbial hydrogen sulfide production and Bio-Fouling corrosion problem in oil/water emulsion, metal working system at can production facility.  Coors Container Company, Golden, Colorado.

·         Microbial corrosion Bio-Fouling assessment and control in water cooling systems for aircraft maintenance operations.  Provided control measures to stabilize cooling system for major carrier in Denver.  Frontier Airlines, Denver, Colorado.

 

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