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EcoClean and GreenClean Series for Bioremediation

Company data

Name	EcoCycle Corporation
Address	694-2 Akada, Toyama Shi, 939-8064, Japan
Capital	JPY 74,350,000
Contact person	Name: P. Sreenivasulu Reddy, Ph.D. Telephone: +81-76-420-3122 Fax: +81-76-420-3161 E-mail: psreddy@ecocycle.co.jp
Number of employees	17
Date of company foundation	May 1999
The type of business	Manufacturing of Bioremediation Products and Application Design for Soil and Groundwater Purification

International operation

Number of employees for international operation(including overseas operation, if any)		3-4 members work on international operations, but stationed in Japan
Overseas offices*	City , Country

* Overseas offices of alliance members and/or consortium members are also accepted.

Modality of business transaction

Mark, if applicable	Mode of business	Brief description
	Direct Investment
	Partnership	Our aim is to contribute to the improvement of the regional economy through partnership with local companies, organizations and consulting companies providing greener (ecologically and economically) technologies for contaminated sites’ bioremediation and waste treatment.
	Export of product	Our products were exported to Taiwan, USA, India, and other Asian Countries, and in the future we want to establish our businesses in all other countries in the world.
	Licensing of patent

Technology data

Name of technology	EcoClean and GreenClean Series for Bioremediation
Field of the technology	Major category: Prevention and destruction of pollution	Sub-category: Soil and underground water
Conceivable applications	Our bioremediation products perform In-situ Bioremediation or Purification of soil and groundwater contaminated with chlorinated hydrocarbons and heavy metals with 'EcoClean', and petroleum hydrocarbons and cyanide compounds with 'Green Clean'.
Performance	Short remediation time: The products are designed to clean most of the contaminated sites in the span of a few months. Cleaning Contamination of high concentration: We have successfully degraded contamination with the order of several hundred milligrams/liter, according to Japanese environmental limits, at many sites with DNAPLs (Dense Non-aqueous phase Liquids). Low energy requirement: Unlike some technologies such as pump and treat, bioremediation has very low energy requirement therefore environmentally green. Running facilities: Can be applied to clean up the sites under active facilities, factories, and buildings. Safety: Our products are safe for site bioremediation application, because they are made of food grade materials, and are degraded completely through contaminants degradation by the use of native microorganisms.
Technical maturity	Our bioremediation products have been successfully applied for cleaning over 170 sites contaminated with chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons, chromium (VI), petroleum hydrocarbons, & cyanide in Japan, US, Taiwan & other Asian countries.
Competitive advantage	For example, EcoClean for bioremediation of Cholorinated Solvents Performance: EcoClean is a mixture of well-balanced nutrients and energy source for microbes. By application of EcoClean for site remediation, quick anaerobic conditions are met allowing faster and more effective remediation results. Installation and operational cost (life cycle cost): Low remediation cost, about 1/3 of the cost of conventional methods (physical or chemical treatment technologies) Applicability: This bioremediation technology is applicable to some cases, where other treatment technologies are not applicable. Comparison of Different Leading Remediation Technologies with EcoClean is shown on the second page of “Schematic illustration of the technology”
Conceivable risk	There are no considerable risks as the bioremediation technology is matured, and low cost technology for purification of soil and groundwater contaminants have been applied around the world.. However, there are some cases where bioremediation technology may not be an option where highly acidic conditions exist, with very high contaminant concentrations, making it difficult to sustain active microbial growth, etc.
Information on patent related to this technology	EcoCycle^TM Corporation holds several patents on all the proprietary products and injection methods in Japan and/or abroad

Schematic illustration of the technology

EcoClean^TM is wholesome food for specific soil microorganisms. Whereas EcoClean-E^TM is an emulsified formula designed to release hydrogen over extended periods of time and useful for cleaning contaminations of high concentrations in silty or clayey soils. Both products are diluted in water and injected into subsurface to stimulate native microorganisms in the contaminated site that are capable of degrading chlorinated hydrocarbons. The products are made of food grade raw materials and is environmentally safe.
Target contaminants : Tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethylene, trichloroethane, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, dichloroethylenes, dichloroethane, vinyl chloride, dichloromethane, etc.

EcoClean

EcoClean-E

EcoClean provides essential nutrients (vitamins, amino acids ,etc).

The consortium of native microbes is stimulated

Complete and faster degradation of contaminants

CAHs are degraded

How to use
As shown in the picture below, the bioremediation nutrients are dissolved in water and injected in to the subsurface to stimulate the native microorganism capable of degrading the toxic pollutants.

Also, EcoCycle^TM is manufacture nutrients while providing application design for various soil and groundwater pollutants namely, hexavalent chromium, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene, petroleum hydrocarbons, and cyanide compounds.

Comparison of Different Leading Remediation Technologies with EcoClean