One of the main issues in agriculture is a proper nutrients management and nutrient equal distribution among the regions.

Where the soil is not fertile enough, chemical fertilizers need to be introduced -worldwide we use over 200 million tons of chemical fertilizers. But why having globally approx. 1 billion cows, which can provide a perfect alternative for the chemical status quo, we still do produce chemical NPK?

Manure as a natural fertilizer  has been used on farms  for centuries, is widely available  and now it can be turned into a multibillion swiss franks business. To achieve it, there is a solution needed, which allows an easy handling to make the not as easy to deal manure a ready to use, stabilized and standardized finish product for the soil fertilization.

According to the research of Iowa State university,  cost of storing, hauling and applying manure at the farm is on average $104.10 per head per year.

The manure produced on the dairy farms started to be a serious problem as a cow is able to produce 45kg of manure per day, what makes 16 tonne per year (approx.130kg   CO2e/yr). Just in Europe there are almost 80M heads, what makes a huge emissions source but also a great source for material, what can be upcycled.

Not controlled manure storage or spraying can harm the soil, can be a source of pathogens and can pollute ground and surface water.

Our solution is a on farm turn key technology, which turns the manure into dense, stabilized product, which can be easy applied, stored and transported without nitrogen losses. Upcycles nutrients to a fully functional fertilizer alternative with customization potential. The reactor can upycle also other organic by-products from farming operations like greenwaste, post-harvest waste, sawmill etc.

The main research question and the goal of the project is to validate the thesis of technological solution of usage of supercavitation based reactor to prove the above thesis.

The Project Thesis:

The reactor is able to separate water from manure and condensate nutrients for easier mass balance management. The recovered nitrogen is stable and has significant less losses compered to manure nitrogen. The process helps to recover up to 80% water from liquid manure and make the manure transports cheaper and more ecological.

The usage of separated solids mixed with other organic farm waste can be considered as biogas feedstock, biochar feedstock or base for humic acid production – what gives the full circular usage of all byproducts and turn them back as renewable sources of energy and raw materials.

We make manure easy to store and transport, easy to apply as NPK standardized equivalent and recover water too.

Farmers do not need more work and cost, farmers need efficiency and balanced nutrient management to achieve the correct mass balance and  good harvest. Our reactor is the one stop shop answer for the future agriculture challenges.