Skillicorn Technologies offer a broad spectrum of services
STL - Saudia Arabia | Services Introduction
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"Bringing together firm, on-demand renewable energy, recycled water and local, harvested and delivered today, agriculture"
We MAKE and DELIVER . . . . DISTRIBUTED, FIRM, ON-DEMAND RENEWABLE ENERGY where it is otherwise unavailable -- and we do it less expensively and at a better quality and more reliably than anyone else in the world -- AND . . We also use up the CO2 we produce, and we have a residual of energy and pure water, which we use efficiently.
WHY? Because we embrace wastewater and MSW, septage and agricultural wastes; we have superior and multiple value technologies and we use and monetize EVERYTHING.
WHY? Because we embrace wastewater and MSW, septage and agricultural wastes; we have superior and multiple value technologies and we use and monetize EVERYTHING.
What STL Does
Reconfiguring, retrofitting and upgrading existing activated sludge facilities
General result: a 30% increase in capacity, 50% increase in treated effluent quality (sic: BOD of 20 mg/l reduced to at least 10 mg/l) and a 35% reduction in per cubic meter throughput operating costs: The MOB system - retrofit CAPEX estimated at less than 20% of existing STP’s original CAPEX.
MSW (MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTES)
Superior recovery of energy and nutrients from volatile fraction of wastes and superior recovery of value from non-recyclable “dirty plastics and thin film plastics. Zero landfill result.
Combined MSW and Municipal Sewage primary and or secondary sludge energy, nutrients
and attendant value recovery
and attendant value recovery
Recommended addition to #2. (above)
Superior AD (Anaerobic Digestion) system
Core feature 2 and 3 (above). Phased sequenced system with superior breakdown (grinding, lysis and hydrolysis) and complete consumption of the volatile fraction. Only mineralized grit, dissolved nutrients and biogas output. Biogas subjected to final phase bacterial methanation and realizing complete conversion of attendant CO2 to CH4.
Superior phased breakdown of soluble BOD
Superior phased breakdown of soluble BOD employing proprietary carbon donor biofilm. Discrete bioreactors that can be married to virtually any existing STP or ETP process or subprocess.
Superior biological nutrient and TOrCs removal
Mixed municipal sewage: BOD < 1 mg/l; TKN < 1 mg/l; P < 1 mg/l) The Skillicorn System.
Monetization of mixed industrial and municipal sewage treatment
Absent revenues from treatment fees and subsidies, or purchase of treated water: ROI > 35%.
Treatment of all mixed industrial and municipal sewage to WHO potable water
Treatment of all mixed industrial and municipal sewage to WHO potable water standards following STL primary solids recovery, Soluble BOD breakdown, biological nutrient removal, continuous screen filtration, and final UV/ozone and UF treatment. Complete recovery and recyclability.
Lowest cost treatment of all mining wastes
Eclectic processes featuring advanced oxygenation that are built around a superior phyto-remediation “polishing” core process.
Lowest cost treatment of all industrial wastes
Eclectic processes built around a phyto-remediation “polishing” core process.
Complete recycling and recovery of virtually all mining and industrial wastes
At costs typically below that of marginal water acquisition costs.
Highest density phyto-remediation with total water recovery and energy and
nutrient monetization
nutrient monetization
STL stacked indoor systems. Complete high rise treatment and recycling - Black and Grey water. Complete recycling in dense urban areas - downtown Delhi, Lower Mumbai (Bombay) and Kolkata possible.
Full integration of renewable energy on all treatment sites
Superior biogas as CNG - firming battery-mediated, integrated PV, solar-thermal and sentinel wind power. All sites have surplus firm power to export to discrete customers or wheel, selectively (arbitrage) to the grid.
Municipal wastewater treatment sites can be fully amortized in 5 years and phrased as
massive real estate capital gains projects
massive real estate capital gains projects
With wastewater treatment plants thus always moving and serving to profitably aggregate land to the profound benefit of attendant landowners, developers and municipal corporations.
Phyto-desalination
Lemnaceae aquaculture in brackish water results in the highest footprint production of plant protein, plant lipids, starch, minerals and vitamins. It also removes significant volumes of salts, while using relatively little water. This allows production of a residual, fully desalinated potable quality “100% natural mineral water.” Phyto-desalination can be done with brackish surface and shallow aquifer waters that result from poorly managed (sic: drained) irrigation. It can also be done with deep brackish water aquifers that have formed over millennia.
Farming the desert
Where limited sources of degraded water (sic: brackish) and wastewater exist, STL Lemnaceae farming can produce greater quantities of protein, starch, minerals and vitamins than any (and all) conventional, intensively irrigated terrestrial farming system located in favourable tropical and subtropical latitudes – while using much less water (<5% as much). This can notably be done in the harshest desert conditions featuring completely unfavourable soil and landscapes. For instance: locations in the barren desert in Jordan, Egypt, Iraq or KSA that have access to limited amounts of underground brackish water, can produce 30 times as much high quality protein, starch, minerals and vitamins as the very best conventionally farmed circumstances in countries like Brazil, Argentina, Australia and The United States.
Agro-Solar
STL has developed efficient means by which to adapt existing solar racking systems to produce highly efficient controlled environments favouring hydroponic horticulture. These structures are also highly efficient in the production of PV electric power as well as rainwater harvesting and storage.
3-Dome super intensive aquaculture of whitefish and giant prawns
STL has developed a unique, continuously harvested aquaculture system which produces approximately 3X of conventional intensive aquaculture on a footprint basis. The 3-Dome system is also less expensive to construct and superior as to thermal properties (heating and cooling).
3-Dome aquaponics
STL’s 3-Dome system is well adapted to highly efficient, continuous train aquaponics systems which integrate production of vegetables, herbs, vine-fruit and Lemnaceae with the system’s core aquaculture of whitefish and giant prawns.
3-Dome aquatic vermiculture.
STL’s 3-Dome system is well adapted to highly efficient, fully automated aquatic vermiculture in STL’s unique stacked tray systems. STL’s aquatic vermiculture, which thrives on fish and prawn aquaculture solid wastes, produces the highest volume of animal proteins and lipids on a footprint basis.
Highly efficient free-range aviculture
STL’s Agro-Solar systems are well suited to full integration of free-range poultry – broilers and egg production. These systems occupy the space above harvested water storage facilities that occupy 33% of STL’s Agro-Solar footprint.
Floating PV solar
STL has pioneered the difficult-to-do recycling of mixed thin-film and dirty plastics. This is done by producing, using a discrete exothermic process, a robust, “reinforced” foamed plastic panel. These panels are molded to accept PV panels and float directly in the water (river, lake or reservoir). They also allow continuous irrigation of PV panels which maintain PV panel temperatures in a more efficient range – increasing output of power by as much as 25%. Floating as that do, they can also more easily be cleaned for removal of occluding dust and filth. STL floating systems also prevent evaporation of water under their “in-the-water” footprint. Deployment of STL’s floating solar system on a single hectare will “make” more than 20,000 cubic meters of potable water per annum in hot, arid water-scarce countries like Jordan, Iraq and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Bottom line: STL floating PV solar systems cost less to install, produce much more power, are less expensive to maintain... and, they also “make” water by preventing evaporative loss of water.
Naturally-reinforced 100% renewable bio-plastics
STL has pioneered production of two types of bio-plastics (PLA and protein polymers) from Lemnaceae plants. These can be blended to form synergistic co-polymers and reinforced with bast fibers to produce high quality 100% renewable bioplastics that compete favorably with conventional plastics as to costs, performance and longevity.
Fiber crops
STL and its associates have pioneered farmed production and application of what will become the two most important fiber crops: kenaf and Arundo donax. Kenaf produces a competitive bast (long exterior) fiber and a superior inner “core” fiber that is used in production of STL’s unique carbon-donor biofilm media. Arundo donax is the world’s fastest growing grass species (canes and bamboos) and can be employed across a wide spectrum of applications ranging from bio-energy pellets to high grade flooring and engineered structural lumbers. STL’s proprietary “Oleum Absentis” system, which employs the unique core of the kenaf plant, is the world’s most efficient way to clean up landscapes and swamps that have been polluted with petroleum – both unrefined and refined.
Superior engineered lumbers
STL and its associates have pioneered combining kenaf bast fiber and Arundo donax fibers with Lemnaceae-derived 100% natural plastic binders to produce superior strength-for-weight engineered lumbers that are superior as to performance and can compete on price with conventional lumbers such as pine, fir, aspen and oak.