The present disclosure relates to strains for degrading ethylene oxide and degradation agents comprising the same, wherein the strains are Acetobacter peroxydans EO-01 strain with Deposit number of CGMCC No. 18431; Lactobacillus fermentum EO-02 strain with Deposit number of CGMCC No. 18432; or Bacillus subtilis EO-03 strain with Deposit number of CGMCC No. 18433. The strains are capable of safely and efficiently degrading ethylene oxide. The present disclosure also provides a method for purifying and producing strains that can degrade ethylene oxide, and a method for biodegrading ethylene oxide.

The present disclosure provides a microbiological treatment system including a hydration system and microbiological degradation systems. The hydration system may include a gas-liquid mixing chamber, a gas inlet, a gas outlet, a liquid inlet, and a liquid outlet, the latter four being fluidly coupled to the chamber. The gas inlet is configured to introduce an ethylene oxide exhaust gas into the chamber to mix with an aqueous solution to form an ethylene oxide exhaust liquor. The liquid outlet is configured to discharge the ethylene oxide exhaust liquor. Each microbiological degradation system may include a degradation chamber containing degradation bacteria including one of anaerobic bacteria, facultative bacteria, or aerobic bacteria. The degradation chambers of the microbiological degradation systems may be in fluid communication sequentially in a predetermined degradation sequence, with the most upstream in the degradation sequence having a liquid inlet in fluid communication with the liquid outlet.

The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for bioremediating solid petrochemical-containing scrap into biomass.

The subject invention provides materials and methods for reducing deleterious atmospheric gases, such as greenhouse gases. In specific embodiments, the reduction in deleterious atmospheric gases is achieved via enhanced vegetative carbon utilization and storage, as well as increased carbon sequestration in soil. In some embodiments, the subject invention can be used for reducing the number of carbon credits used by an operator involved in, e.g., agriculture, livestock production, waste management or other industries. In certain embodiments, the subject invention provides customizable microbe-based products, as well as methods of using these microbe-based products for reduction of greenhouse gases and/or enhanced sequestration of carbon.

Disclosed herein are carbon dioxide capture devices, facilities, methods, and compositions. Specifically disclosed herein are devices, facilities, compositions and methods to capture carbon dioxide from the Earth's atmospheric air for providing long-term sequestration of the captured carbon and/or utilization thereof. To this end, a carbon dioxide capture device configured in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present invention can comprise a coating substrate having at least one coatable surface and a carbon dioxide capture coating composition on a coatable surface of the coating substrate. The carbon dioxide capture coating composition preferably comprises a coating material and a photosynthetic organism, wherein the photosynthetic organism is at least one of admixed within the coating material and on an exposed surface of the coating material. The coating material can deliver all or a portion of water to the photosynthetic organism necessary for sustaining photosynthetic activity of the photosynthetic organism.

An apparatus utilizes a membrane unit to capture components from atmospheric air, including oxygen and carbon dioxide, resulting in a permeate stream having an enriched concentration of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Alternatively, the membrane unit may be utilized to form a permeate stream having a permeate of enriched fast gas components. The permeate stream is thereafter directed to a permeate processing facility which may include a second stage of permeate enrichment, a flue gas generator, or a carbon dioxide sequestration facility for processing of an enriched stream of carbon dioxide. Among other carbon dioxide sequestration facilities, the carbon dioxide may be biologically sequestered by a facility of photosynthetic organisms, such as trees in an orchard, crops, or the like. The membrane unit may be shell-less and utilize a vacuum or positive pressure to facilitate the flow of fast gas components through a selective barrier of the membrane.

A system for removing undesirable compounds from contaminated air includes a biofilter having an alkaline material introduction system and a fuzzy-logic based controller. A contaminant, such as hydrogen sulfide, is removed from contaminated air by passing the contaminated air through the biofilter.

The present invention relates to a device and a method associated with the device. With respect to the device, it is a biological Air Purifier, which captures air contaminants without limit of size and type by “electric molecular charge attraction” and then digests the captured contaminants by bio-oxidation by means of a microorganism compound additive.

The present disclosure relates to a method for removing ammonia from exhaust air from a livestock stable and a device for removing ammonia from exhaust air from a livestock stable. The method and the device of the disclosure allow to a achieve a complete or near complete removal of ammonia from exhaust air. Moreover, the method and device of the disclosure allow full nitrification to nitrate, thus obviating the problem of toxic nitrite in the waste water after scrubbing the exhaust air.

The invention relates to a device and to a method for sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide using at least one air capture module in conjunction with a bioreactor equipped with an autotrophic microorganisms.