Municipal Biosolids
Municipal wastewater utilities are facing increasing pressure from rising disposal costs, PFAS concerns and shrinking outlet availability. IQ Energy develops modular thermal treatment systems designed to reduce biosolids volumes and create long-term treatment pathways.
Why Biosolids Management is Challenging
For decades, many utilities relied on a limited number of disposal and beneficial reuse pathways. Today those pathways are facing increasing regulatory, economic and operational pressure.
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Transportation, handling and third-party disposal costs continue to increase.
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Emerging contaminant concerns are creating uncertainty around traditional biosolids outlets.
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Land application, landfill and other pathways face growing constraints in many jurisdictions.
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Replacement treatment capacity is often being developed more slowly than disposal options are disappearing.
Thermal treatment is increasingly being evaluated as part of a diversified biosolids strategy.
Reduce Dependence On Disposal Outlets
Create treatment capacity rather than relying entirely on external disposal providers.
Reduce Biosolids Volumes
Reduce handling, storage and transportation requirements.
Create Long-Term Treatment Capacity
Develop infrastructure that can adapt to changing regulations and disposal environments.
The IQ Energy Solution
Modular Systems
100-1000 dry kg/hr
Designed For Difficult Residuals
Biosolids, industrial sludges, PFAS solids
Flexible Deployment
Centralised, decentralised, remote
Autothermal Continuous Solution
Circular: Dried Product to the Gasifier & Heat Back to the Dryer
Increasingly biochar has been gaining attention for its environmental and agricultural benefits. Whether biochar or char/ash is produced within an IQ Energy system is dependent on how much carbon needs to be reacted through the thermal treatment process. Both a biochar or a char/ash will have value within an agricultural or industrial outcome. Some key advantages of these products are:
Soil Improvement
Nutrient Qualities and Agricultural Yield Improvement
Carbon Sequestration
Cost Reduction/Revenue Opportunity
Potential Carbon Credits
Cementitious Qualities for Industry and Infrastructure
With this IQ Energy will be conducting plot trials to understand further benefits of the biochar produced from the IQ Energy unit that will be operating in Alberta.
