RARE Technologies presents their Quantum Biology System (QBS) technology for enhancing biogas production from anaerobic digestion. QBS involves installing a biological reactor to transform solid organic matter to liquid for rapid microbial digestion. Trials show QBS increased biogas yield by 30-100% and eliminated waste. RARE upgraded a 500 kWe anaerobic digestion plant with QBS, increasing core temperature from 20°C to 40°C and allowing processing of new feedstocks. This solved digestate issues and financial payback occurred within 12 months. RARE claims QBS achieves huge increases in biological efficiencies for complete anaerobic digestion.

1. THE FUTURE OF SMALL
SCALE AD
#UKADBiogas @adbioresources
CHAIR:
SOPHIE GOODALL, HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY
PANEL:
DAVID LOVETT, PERCEPTIVE ENGINEERING
MICHAEL THOMPSON, RARE TECHNOLOGIES
DAVID KANER, ADVANCED ANAEROBICS
MARK CLAYTON, QUBE RENEWABLES

2. RARE Technologies
Eliminating AD Waste
&
Whilst Creating Energy & Water
Quantum Biology System

3. Introduction to RARE…
• RARE is a UK Bio-Technology company that specialises in the operational/financial turnaround
of CHP assets, particularly Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plants.
• The ‘QBS’ technology centres upon installing a biological led reactor/process that will enhance
the gas yield from the feedstock and/or the post digestion digestate.
• This technology enables AD plants to radically change their financial model
• 30%-100% + uplift in addition gas yield is achieved through the application of our technology.
• QBS? – what is it?...
…we will add value to your asset
WASTE
ELIMINATION
QBS treatment of
COD BIOGAS
WATER

4. Mobile
Containerised Plant
500 kWe PlantTo Date
Trial Plant
Slovenia
Dairy Manure
Chicken Manure
Dairy Manure
Sewerage Sludge
AD Digestate
QBS…The Data
3MWe Plant
Sewerage Sludge
Food Waste
AD Digestate

5. Input = 0.5 tonne/day
Footprint: 7 m²
QBS…The Original Trial Plant (workflow)…

6. QBS…The Original Trial Plant (Data)…
Organic matter (expressed as COD) is transformed from solid-phase to liquid-
phase for rapid digestion by microbes
0 10 20 30 40
-00
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
Weeks
COD(mg/L)
COD of Treated Grey Water
0 10 20 30 40
50%
55%
60%
65%
70%
75%
80%
85%
90%
95%
100%
Weeks
CODReduction(%)
Percent Reduction in COD

7. QBS…Mobile Containerised Plant (Overview)…
→ Waste material is fed manually into the Feedstock
Receiving Tank (1)
→ Biocomplex additive is dosed automatically (2) into the
waste/feedstock.
→ Waste/feedstock is macerated by the macerator (3) and is
received into Holding Tank (4)
→ Waste/feedstock moves hydraulically into a holding tank
(4) for macerated material.
→ Waste/feedstock is pumped via the NDT (Nano-
Dispersion Tech) pump (5), through NDT nozzle (6)
before entering the BFS (Bio-fusion Reactor) (7)
→ Feed hydraulically into N-SAT (Non-stop Attachment
Transformer) tank (8)
→ Grey water effluent flows out hydraulically (9).
→ Biogas is collected passively via biogas collection piping
(10)

8. QBS…500kWe Plant…
• Our intervention:
• technology upgrade & additive
• core temperature with additive alone
increased from 20° C to 40° C
• gas from digestate
• able to process gate fee led feed stocks
• solved digestate storage and transport issues
• huge uplift in biological efficiencies
• financial payback on Capex within 12
months
• ‘state-of-the art’AD Plant:
• limited in its operations as it could only digest purchased feedstocks
• designed to process up to 25,000 tonnes/year of feedstock
• designed to export up to 500kWe from its current gas engine
• underperforming financially
• digester core temperature 20C

9. QBS…500 kWe Plant (technology upgrade)…

10. QBS…500kWe Plant…what’s the data telling us?
…huge uplift in biological efficiencies; allowing for
complete Anaerobic Digestion

11. QBS…Bio-Fusion Reactor - how does it work?...
…huge uplift in biological efficiencies; allowing for
complete Anaerobic Digestion
Post-Additive Microbe Biology: density population & activity
Microbes in conventional
Digesters or WwT basins
(actual micrograph)
Microbes
In our system
(actual micrograph)

12. Which Anaerobic Digestion Facility are you?
…we will help future proof your business
Questions
Please

13. Michael Thompson
RARE Technologies
Newcastle Upon Tyne
T: +44 (0) 191 645 38 76
M: +44 (0) 7887 76 38 76
E: mvt@rare.uk.com
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14. THE FUTURE OF SMALL
SCALE AD
#UKADBiogas @adbioresources
CHAIR:
SOPHIE GOODALL, HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY
PANEL:
DAVID LOVETT, PERCEPTIVE ENGINEERING
MICHAEL THOMPSON, RARE TECHNOLOGIES
DAVID KANER, ADVANCED ANAEROBICS
MARK CLAYTON, QUBE RENEWABLES