OVERVIEW OF: AG BIOMASS TECHNICIANS (ABT2) BUSINESS MODEL
MANUFACTURE OF DAIRY WASTE PROCESSING UNITS
The product is a preassembled dairy waste biomass digester known as the Container Advanced Anaerobic Digester System, (CAADS). The CAADS is the central part of an ag-waste conversion system that will produce biogas (methane) and capture the methane gas to generate electricity.The CAADS is the part of the system where a contained volume of waste material is broken down by bacteria in an environment of heat and chemical conditions which generates methane. The CAADS captures this biogas and sends it to other parts of the system.
Methane, as a greenhouse gas, is 18 times more harmful than CO2. The CAADS is part of the methane gas capture and dairy waste handling systems for cleaner dairies. The ABT business plan is to build these units in a central industrial location, and take advantage of the cost advantages of being able to transport the unit in a ready to install condition.
ABT2 will load a complete and ready to install CAADS unit on a truck. At the dairy, the waste flow pipes, the water flow pipes and 120 volt electrical connection will be all that is required. A control system and the heat exchange water flow is part of the CAADS. Outside the unit will be other parts of a dairy installation which include the electrical generation from the biogas and waste handling.
The dairy installation and assembly of the CAADS with the other systems will be managed by FB EcoSolutions, the company that has the patent rights and the design for the CAADS. This company, FB EcoSolutions, has the goal of selling, installing, and servicing many dairies. FB EcoSolutions wants to contract with ABT2 for the units. Eighty units in the first year is the expected volume. Regular annual production will be double for the next three years.
A CAADS unit will be made out of a large shipping container. The inside, bottom and sides of the container will be lined with tubes and insulation to allow for heat exchange. The two main parts of a unit include the control systems and the large bladder. A unit is budgeted to cost $35,000 each.
Nine units or more will be required to serve a single small dairy of 1000 cows or less. A CAADS unit needs 18 days to cycle through the entire operation from raw waste to the spent solids and liquids. The number of units are needed at a dairy installation based on the size of the dairy. FB EcoSolutions will manage some installations having 15-20 CAADS units.
The CAADS unit, built by ABT2 and shipped by truck or rail, will conveniently and efficiently take a portion of the dairy waste flow and process it. Many of the units will be needed. ABT2 has an understanding with FB EcoSolutions that ABT2 will build the CAADS units for dairy installation projects to solve the methane gas problem and generate the added economic benefit of electricity sales.
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