If we could transform organic waste into high grade hydrogen gas and simultaneously purify water, would that be of interest to you?

1. Kilauea Community Agricultural Center
Waste to Energy System

2. RENEWABLE HYDROGEN GAS GENERATED BY
A MICROBIAL ELECTROLYTIC CELL

3. • 500 Gallons Per Day Per Module
• 10,000 Gallons Per Day Capacity (20 Modules)
• 140 kg. of Pure Hydrogen Gas Per Day At Full Capacity
• 95% BOD Degradation

4. MICROALGAE TERTIARY TREATMENT
• ASTANAXATHIN NUTRICUTICAL
• ACETATE & FERTILIZER

5. VERMICULTURE SOLID WASTE SYSTEM
• WORM CASTINGS
• CHICKEN FEED

6. Estimated: 140 kg.
Hydrogen Per Day
Estimated: 83 kg.
Astaxanthin Per Yr.
Estimated: 8 Oz.
Acetate Per Day
Estimated: 105 lbs.
Fertilizer Per Day (Wet)
Estimated: 28 Oz.
Insecticide Per Day
Estimated: 570 lbs.
Worm Casting Per Day
PRODUCTS PRODUCED BY KCAC
10,000 GALLONS PER DAY SYSTEM
Estimated: 10,000
Gallons Per Day Reuse
Estimated: 12 lbs.
Worms Per Day
WASTE IS 100% REPURPOSED
WATER IS 100% REUSED
MEC SYSTEM USES NATURES TOOLS
TO MAKE VALUABLE PRODUCTS

7. Kilauea Community Agricultural Center
Waste to Energy System Team Lead: Bruce Rittmann PhD
Director of Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology
Arizona State University
“By revolutionizing microbiological-based technologies in water and wastewater treatment, Professor
Bruce Rittmann has demonstrated the possibilities to remove harmful contaminants from water, cut
wastewater treatment costs, reduce energy consumption, and even recover chemicals and nutrients for
recycling.”
“Stockholm Water Prize Winner 2018”

8. Kilauea Community Agricultural Center
Waste to Energy System Team Member: Cesar Torres PhD
Chemical Engineering, Engineering of, Matter, Transport and
Energy at Arizona State University
Cesar is a leader in microbial electrochemical cell research, focusing on microbial kinetics of anode-
respiring bacteria (ARB) and extracellular electron transport to and from solid electrodes.
“Engineering of Matter, Transport & Energy”

9. In a study published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, Z. Jason Ren from Princeton
University in the US reported that their process doubled the currently accepted rate for scalable
technologies that produce hydrogen by splitting water.
“Treat Wastewater” and “Simultaneously Generate Fuels”
Kilauea Community Agricultural Center
Waste to Energy System Team Member: Z. Jason Ren PhD
Associate Director for Research, Andlinger Center for Energy and
the Environment

10. Kilauea Community Agricultural Center
Waste to Energy System Team Member: Pei Xu PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,
New Mexico State University
Pei Xu, New Mexico State University Civil Engineering professor, will lead NMSU’s efforts on the National
Alliance for Water Innovation team that received a U.S. Department of Energy five-year, $100 million
grant to create the Energy-Water Desalination Hub.
“It is Critical to Develop Sustainable Technologies for
“Water and Wastewater Treatment”

11. Kilauea Community Agricultural Center
Waste to Energy System Team Member: Sunny Jiang PhD
Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at University of California, Irvine
Sunny Jiang has pioneered the molecular detection system for rapid human pathogens identification in
water and is developing pathogen and chemical sensors for real time monitoring of water contamination.
“We Need to Know Water Quality in Minutes, Not Days”

12. Kilauea Community Agricultural Center
Waste to Energy: Built & Tested at BGNDRF
Microbial Electrolytic Cell System
Coming to Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Facility (BGNDRF)
BEGIN MARCH 2020

13. Kilauea Community Agricultural Center
Waste to Energy: GELF Sciences Developer
FOR PROJECT INFORMATION CONTACT:
BRETT DANSON: BRETT@GELFSCIENCES.COM
YOSHITO L HOTE: YOSHITOL@YAHOO.COM