N-Viro International Corporation owns and licenses the N-Viro Process, a patented technology to treat and recycle wastewater sludges and other bio-organic wastes, utilizing certain alkaline by-products produced by the cement, lime, electric utilities, and other industries.
N-Viro Fuel
The company’s business focus is to market its N-Viro Fuel technology, which produces a renewable alternative fuel product out of certain bio-organic wastes. This N-Viro Fuel process has been acknowledged by the U...
N-Viro International Corporation owns and licenses the N-Viro Process, a patented technology to treat and recycle wastewater sludges and other bio-organic wastes, utilizing certain alkaline by-products produced by the cement, lime, electric utilities, and other industries.
N-Viro Fuel
The company’s business focus is to market its N-Viro Fuel technology, which produces a renewable alternative fuel product out of certain bio-organic wastes. This N-Viro Fuel process has been acknowledged by the USEPA as a fuel product that could be used to produce alternative energy.
N-Viro Fuel is a patented biomass alternative energy fuel process that produces a product that has physical and chemical characteristics similar to certain coals and is created from municipal biosolids, collectable animal manure, pulp and paper sludge and possibly other organic wastes. N-Viro Fuel is manufactured by blending the waste material(s) with one or more alkaline products, followed by thorough drying of the mixture using a thermal evaporative process. The resulting product could be blended with coal, waste coal, petroleum coke and/or other biomass-type fuels, and burned as a partial fuel substitute in combustion power plants.
The company’s N-Viro Fuel technology could convert waste products presently being landfilled or land applied into safe, beneficial and renewable long-term energy solutions as part of a renewable-energy economy. In 2014, the company received final determination from the USEPA concluding its N-Viro Fuel process satisfies the requirements of 40 CFR part 241.3(b)(4), designating its process and its outcome as a non-waste fuel product.
The N-Viro Process
In the N-Viro Soil Process, the company mixes (sludge proportionally with an alkaline admixture and then subjecting the mixture to a controlled period of storage, mechanical turning and/or accelerated drying. The N-Viro Process stabilizes and pasteurizes the wastewater residuals, reduces odors to acceptable levels, neutralizes or immobilizes various constituents and generates N-Viro Soil, a product that has a granular appearance similar to soil and has multiple agricultural uses. The company and its licensees have marketed and distributed all N-Viro Soil product produced for beneficial reuse.
The alkaline products used in all N-Viro Processes consist of by-products from the cement or lime industry and certain fly ashes from coal-fired systems used in electric power generation. The company is a distributor of alkaline admixtures for others. The company also works with by-product marketers to identify and utilize available materials.
Sales and Marketing of N-Viro Process
The company markets its technologies principally through internal sales efforts. In certain countries outside the United States, the company has at times sold or licensed the N-Viro Process through agents.
History
N-Viro International Corporation was founded in 1979. The company was incorporated in Delaware in 1993.