We have gone out into the natural environment and isolated methane digesting bacteria from longstanding coal mine leaks sites around the state of Colorado. The bacteria at these leak site exhibit digestion kinetics up to twelve times higher compared to surrounding bacteria indicating a gain of digestion activity.
An added benefit of these species being isolated from coal mine leak sites is that some of them exhibit an increased capability to grow under exposure to various type of methane feed stream contaminants.
We have developed four different deployment methods for these bacteria based on the type of methane leak that needs remediating.
- Distinct piped methane sources with high methane concentration.
- Diffuse ground leakage of methane over a large area.
- Small scale incidental methane leakage.
- Ventilated facility methane leakage.
We are currently testing pilot operations in the field using these different types of reactors.
If you would like to participate in a pilot emissions study please contact us.
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