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This
flow chart shows the sources, types of material and path taken to
produce the products needed for sustainable landscaping, gardening,
turf management and bioremediation.
In
this instance the citizens and communities of Saugatuck, Douglas
and Saugatuck Township manage yard waste disposal by diverting it
to the Lakeshore Microboost, Inc. compost site in Saugatuck Township.
At the compost facility a very low impact compost technology is
used to produce pasteurized compost, the base product for the facility.
Using the compost produced at the site LMI produces MBST biostimulants
for use in bioremediation and sustainable crop production and turf
management. In addition to compost and biostimulants the site produces
biochar also known as agrichar. Biochar is a charcoal produced under
high temperature using organic waste material. MBST Biochar is produced
through pyrolysis, a relatively low temperature oxygen free process
that reduces the organics to their carbon base. Biochar, when used
in concert with our biostimulants facilitates accelerated bioleaching,
and provides for the collection and sequestration of metals and
other contaminants.
Pyrolysis
is an energy positive technology producing 3-9 times the energy
needed to reduce the biomass. During pyrolysis the biomass is heated
to 900-1000 degrees, the syngas produced as the biomass degrades
is a biofuel that is used to finish the pyrolysis. The syngas produced
during the process offsets the energy used to get the mass up to
pyrolysis temperatures. Biochar is a carbon dioxide sequestering
agent. Unlike plant life that only sequesters CO2 while alive, giving
it up during decomposition, biochar sequesters CO2 for thousands
of years, in addition biochar reduces nitrous oxide and methane
emissions.
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