have a close connection with its subject . it may require cleanup to comply with wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view . please discuss further on the talk page . june 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message lystek international inc. type privately held company industry thermal hydrolysis waste management founded 2000 2000 in ontario canada founders owen ward ajay singh frederick mosher headquarters ontario canada area served north america key people frederick mosher ceo and president ajay singh technical director products lystegro parent r. w. tomlinson ltd. website lystek.com lystek international is a canadian waste treatment technology company founded in 2000 at the university of waterloo ontario canada to commercialize treatment technologies for biosolids and other non hazardous organic waste materials . lystek is headquartered in cambridge ontario canada and is owned by its management and r.w. tomlinson ltd. 1 contents 1 technology 2 applications 3 commercial plants and projects 4 references 5 further reading 6 external links technology edit lystek developed a biosolids treatment that improves the operation of wastewater treatment plants by producing more biogas 2 while reducing output volumes odors and greenhouse gas emissions . lystek s technology uses thermal hydrolysis involving high speed shearing alkali addition and low temperature steam to produce biofertilizer . 3 4 the product can be sold as a commercial biofertilizer called lystegro or recycled to anaerobic digesters and biological nutrient removal bnr systems for optimization of the wastewater treatment plant operation . 5 the lystek process condition disintegrates microbial cell wall membranes and hydrolyzes complex macromolecules into simpler compounds . recycling up to 25 % of the product to the digester increases biogas yields by greater than 30 % 2 and enhances biodegradation reducing output of biosolids by at least 20 % . 6 applications edit the lystek system can be installed as a back end post anaerobic digestion post dewatering solution at the wastewater treatment plant . it can also take raw sludge directly without an anaerobic digester process . 7 alternatively the system can be used in a regional processing hub to service multiple organic waste generators . the lystek solution is modular and has a small footprint making it flexible to deploy and easy to retrofit into existing facilities . 8 commercial plants and projects edit as of 2015 there are five installations 9 of the lystek technology in ontario and a sixth facility in north battleford saskatchewan . 10 a seventh installation first in the u.s. will be commissioned and fully operational in fairfield california by the end of the first calendar quarter of 2016 . 11 references edit tomlinson acquires majority of lystek . ottawa business journal . 20 september 2011 . retrieved 25 december 2014 . a b elbeshbishy elsayed ; aldin saad ; nakhla george ; singh ajay ; mullin bill november 2014 . impact of alkaline hydrolyzed biosolids lystek addition on the anaerobic digestibility of twas in lab and full scale anaerobic digesters . waste management . 34 11 2090 2097 . doi 10.1016 j.wasman .2014.07.022 . a. lugowski ; g. nakhla ; j. patel ; k. shular ; a. singh october 2007 . biosolids minimization using integrated alkaline sludge hydrolysis and biological nutrient removal process . water environment federation . singh ajay ; mosher fredrick lugowski andrew ; ward owen 2006 . an advanced biosolids treatment process and potential beneficial applications of the processed biosolids pdf . water environment federation s annual technical exhibition and conference . water environment foundation . pp. 6886 6901 . retrieved 25 december 2014 . cs1 maint multiple names authors list link biological nutrient removal processes and costs pdf . united states environmental protection agency . retrieved 25 december 2014 . one system multiple benefits . 23 october 2014 . retrieved 25 december 2014 . http www.lystek.com solutions lystemize wwt plant optimization lystek wastewater plant optimization westerling kevin 30 may 2014 . revolutionary sludge management comes to america . water online . retrieved 25 december 2014 . http www.lystek.com solutions projects case studies lystek case studies collie doug 29 january 2014 . council authorizes 3.19 million project to process sewage sludge . battleford s daily news . retrieved 25 december 2014 . lystek to deliver organic materials recovery center in california . water tap ontario . 20 may 2015 . retrieved 27 august 2015 . further reading edit https uwaterloo.ca news blog post can lystek save region 100 million fertilizer http www.watertapontario.com news lystek product registration 76 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lystek & oldid 723415521 categories companies established in 2000biotechnology companies of canadahidden categories cs1 maint multiple names authors listwikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from june 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 june 2016 at 22 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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