About Us

PMC BioTec Company (PMCB) is an organization that integrates proprietary and environmental technologies to provide sustainable solutions for the environment, government and industry, providing services within the United States and Internationally. PMCB provides economically driven environmental solutions by our staff of experienced professional engineers. We turn challenges into opportunities and problems into profits.

PMCB’s Wastewater Engineering and Biotechnology practice has a straightforward philosophy: PMCB will facilitate your goals for cost savings while meeting environmental compliance and facilitating sustainable development by achieving significant reduction in residuals generation and water usage. Our staff will implement objectives by focusing on the implementation, optimization, and operational modification of treatment systems. PMCB’s staff will work with you to create cost-savings opportunities through a mix of technologies and services.

Mission Statement

PMC BioTec (PMCB) is dedicated to offering truly sustainable environmental and energy technologies that are also profitable to operate. PMCB has developed a family of proprietary and patented technologies that are “triple green”: green for the environment; green for a sustainable future; and critically, economically attractive and thus “green” for business. PMCB technologies eliminate the need to choose between environmental responsibility and profitability. We have proven that “doing the right thing” is good business and getting better as the prices for energy and landfill space continue to escalate.

The planet’s resources are under siege from a burgeoning population. Most critical may be the diminishing supply of clean water and air and cheap energy, global warming, and depletion of the ozone layer. Suddenly, the exploding economies of China and India have exerted massive demands for even more energy and raw materials while generating vast amounts of the very waste products that exacerbate the depletion of the ozone layer and the increasing world temperature. Supplies of oil and gas are clearly limited; there is more available but it will be ever more costly to recover and thus fuel the already escalating price increases.

The world’s vast population generates an enormous amount of waste every day: organic wastes from cattle feedlots alone are estimated at 160 million dry tons per year just in the USA. Total food production waste approaches a billion dry tons annually. Municipal sludge is the organic solids by-product generated by the treatment of sewage. The USA and Europe generate approximately 40 million dry tons of municipal sludge per year.

These wastes are huge sources of pollution that require expensive treatment solutions to minimize negative environmental impacts. The ultimate fate for most of the sludge is land disposal, being either dumped on agricultural land or buried in landfills. Each option is problematic and worrisome: municipal sludges, for example, contain heavy metals and pathogens. Even though regulations exist to minimize health risks from treated sludge disposal, there are obvious problems with accumulation and ultimate fate of these contaminants. The long-term effect on farmland productivity is a concern. Further, there is not currently a clear understanding off the fate of viruses or prions or endocrine disrupter compounds (EDCs), all clearly undesirable and clearly present in the sludges applied to our land. And yet dumping all of the sludge in landfill space is untenable: Europe has already legislated a ban on the landfilling of organic waste. Landfill space is filling up fast and the decomposition of the waste therein contributes strongly to both global warming and the depletion of the ozone layer. Round and round it goes.

The conventional technologies developed during the last century to deal with waste disposal were workable at the time with a small world population; the rules of the game have been irreversibly and critically changed in our crowded time.

It simply does not work to view waste as a problem of disposal: there will not be any good places left to dispose it, and the after-effects of dumping it all on arable land are too dire to contemplate. Burning it (Incineration) is expensive and fraught with air pollution issues.

We live on a planet with shrinking supplies of water, protective ozone, clean air, cheap energy sources, and fertile agricultural land. We compromise much of what is left with poor, outdated or unaffordable waste disposal technology. A new approach is needed, and needed right now.

If we think big, really large, we would dream of a waste handling system that recycled the wastes, just like the earth does naturally at small world population levels. After all, on the positive side agricultural and municipal wastes contain water, organic fuel value, minerals, and nutrients critical for crop growth. For example, the energy potential in the billion tons of agricultural waste generated every year represents about four billion megawatts of eternally renewable energy. And if converted to energy rather than being dumped into the environment, these wastes in turn would not generate the breakdown products such as methane, which account for many billion tons of ozone-depleting gases. Clearly, the ideal solution would be a technology that converts the world’s wastes into valuable energy, water, and nutrients, while not generating great quantities of noxious by-products as is done by conventional technologies and practices. This would truly be the ultimate sustainable system: for as long as there are billions of people there will be billions of tons of waste, or rather “recoverable raw material”, generated each year. And truly effective technology would make it senseless to waste the resources that waste represents: PMC BioTec’s mission is to make it financially seductive for waste generators to clean up their discharges.

PMC BioTec offers patented, proven technologies that achieve this remarkable goal. And these processes were developed by practical working engineers: there are no radical, futuristic, unproven technologies or concepts involved, which is a critical feature for a product with a great immediate demand that must be satisfied. The revolutionary advantages are achieved with new applications of existing technologies. The list of advantages is astonishing, really:

• The proprietary B2E process allows complete conversion of organic wastes to water and valuable methane for energy recovery, and is a prolific net energy generator with little or no waste solids to dispose. The net result is several times more efficient than conventional technologies due to greater conversion efficiencies and reduced residual disposal. Note that the CO2 produced from the energy generation is twenty times less damaging in the context of global warming and ozone destruction than the methane that would otherwise release from conventional disposal.

• The patented AFC process allows complete conversion of organic wastes to harmless carbon dioxide and water, for smaller applications or complex industrial wastes. These systems are exceedingly compact and thus require a fraction (less than 20%) of the land area necessary for conventional processes.

• The systems eliminate or vastly reduce the discharge of pathogens (including GMOs (genetically modified organisms), viruses, prions and endocrine disrupters).

• Nutrients (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, etc.) critical for crop growth but damaging to receiving streams can be recovered and reused for agriculture.

• The systems are self-contained and thus reduce the negative impacts of waste decomposition (ozone layer depletion, land contamination, escape of volatile organics, etc.) to negligible amounts.

PMCB strives to maximize the critical HS&E (Health, Safety and Environmental) metric benefits for the end users of the technologies. This is accomplished in PMCB’s proprietary AFC process, for example, by the elimination of most of the conventional sludge treatment unit processes and associated equipment (dewatering/handling/ transportation/disposal). This means less equipment to operate, fewer chemicals to manage, and little or no off-site transportation or disposal of waste sludge.

Further, PMCB technologies intentionally utilize basic, conventional equipment. Failure scenarios for this equipment are simple and inconsequential. Standby systems are engineered into the process. There are no high-pressure reaction vessels or radiation sources or similar safety-compromising units in these systems.

The reduction in required treatment steps and reliance on proven base technologies in these designs has yielded inconsequential LTR (Lost Time Rate) and RIR (Recordable Injury Rate) numbers; and fewer operators are required.

PMCB’s newest technologies promise even more of the same triple green and HS&E-friendly advantages. Developing from the critical Chemical Treatment phase of the AFC process, the newest version of ChemTreat is capable of complete conversion of target wastes to CO2 and water with no requirement for biological treatment. This extremely compact and aggressive technology is ideal for recalcitrant compounds resistant to biodegradation (e.g.: ETA, EDTA, MTBE, Dioxin, deicing fluids, etc.). In keeping with the PMCB mission goal, the operational costs and time requirements are minimal, there is little or no residual to dispose, and that in turn means no contingent liabilities from land disposal of hazardous or suspect wastes. The e-FFECT technology will be available for selected projects in early 2005.

PMC BioTec has fulfilled the stated mission objective: the technology now exists to reward pollution prevention. Go to the
Cost Effective Evaluation page or contact us and let one of our professionals determine the most cost-effective solution for you.

Values

The expanding family of PMC BioTec proprietary environmental technologies embodies the values of the corporation. We believe that the treatment of wastewaters and sludges should be profitable, effective, reliable, mechanically simple, and safe. We hold each of these values equally critical:

Environmentally Green
PMC BioTec exists first and foremost as an environmental solutions company. The two founding principals are Environmental Engineers with over 55 years-combined experience in the business of environmental protection with clients including many of the Fortune 500. The company is dedicated to providing intelligent technology that eliminates the need for industries and municipalities to choose between environmental responsibility and profitability. We view environmental pollutants and wastes as resources for generating sustainable profit, not as costly problems. PMC BioTec solutions literally convert pollution (e.g.: polluted wastewater; sewage sludge; agricultural waste; etc.) into clean water and minerals, generating a surplus of sustainable energy when practical. Further, this is accomplished in highly compact systems while also reducing the proliferation of both ozone-depleting and global warming off-gases.

Profitable Environmental Solutions
The treatment of waste is always a last priority whether the Owner is an industrial production facility or a municipality: waste treatment is typically a costly, foreign and undesirable necessity to waste generators. Conventional technology is expensive and time-intensive both to build and to operate. PMC BioTec processes offer an attractive return on investment (high IRR) while absolutely minimizing or even reversing negative environmental impacts. In this, PMC BioTec has realized a dream: if it is profitable for polluters to do the right thing, then they usually will. And if the technology greatly reduces land requirements for treatment and also for ultimate disposal while generating energy, then everyone, including the earth, wins. Internationally, this will encourage and speed the use of effective pollution control and accelerate profitable resource recovery (such as our Waste-into-Energy conversion process) throughout the world.

Innovation
The founding members of PMC BioTec have been awarded over 20 patents. The unifying theme of these patents is the development of innovative technology and processes that utilize reliable, conventional technology in a unique combination to achieve particularly efficacious results pertaining to environmental protection or remediation application.

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