Patents by Inventor Tyler BARZEE

Tyler BARZEE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20190256391
    Abstract: Anaerobic digestion is a widely used biotechnology for converting food, agricultural, and other organic wastes into biogas energy but produces nutrient-rich liquid effluent (digestate) that often requires costly disposal. Using digestate and similar wastewaters to produces microalgae for biodiesel or biochemical production can provide many economic and environmental benefits by offsetting fossil fuels. However, two aspects of microalgal production severely hinder the sustainability of the technique especially in arid regions: high energy use associated with the harvest of small microalgal cells and large volumes of water required to reduce concentrations of inhibitory compounds such as ammonia. We have compared the nutrient removal and pelletization potential of an easily harvested biofilm of robust and protective fungi evolved to high ammonia environments (ammonia fungi) with less resilient oleaginous microalgae for high strength wastewater treatment and biodiesel production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Ruihong ZHANG, Tyler BARZEE