Operate in existing infrastructure
Designed to reduce nitrogen in wastewater by 20-30%
2X–5X less expensive than traditional wastewater treatment expansion solutions for municipal, agricultural, and food processing systems.
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Across municipal, agricultural, and industrial systems, wastewater and organic waste streams are becoming increasingly difficult and expensive to manage. Excess nutrients and decaying organic material contribute to poor water quality, harmful algal blooms, oxygen-depleted “dead zones,” and greenhouse gas emissions that damage ecosystems and surrounding environments.
From wastewater treatment plants and agricultural runoff to food and beverage processing facilities, traditional treatment approaches are often energy-intensive, chemical-heavy, and costly to expand as demand grows.
Lillianah Technologies is developing low-cost biological treatment solutions designed to work across a broad range of wastewater and organic waste streams. Our approach focuses on enhancing natural biological processes to improve treatment performance, reduce environmental impact, and support healthier aquatic and industrial systems.
As population growth and industrial demand continue increasing worldwide, scalable and cost-effective biological treatment solutions will become increasingly important for protecting water resources and maintaining environmental resilience.
Providing continuous location data through satellite signals and enhancing the spatial context of dissolved oxygen measurements.
Displays dissolved oxygen levels, allowing for a dynamic analysis of the complementary changes between oxygen levels and GPS coordinates.
Our cost-effective technology provides carbon removal solutions at a fraction of the
cost (50X-100X less) compared to Direct Air Capture, emphasizing a primary focus on addressing carbon in Earth's oceans.
Our meticulously crafted technological and scientific process, entirely developed in-house, has several distinct stages, each one crucial to our success.
Our scalable biological treatment technology is designed to improve wastewater treatment performance across municipal, agricultural, and industrial systems. By targeting excess nitrogen, phosphorus, and organic material already accumulating in wastewater streams, our approach supports faster treatment, improved water quality, and lower infrastructure expansion costs. Our in-house scientific process uses targeted biological interventions to help normalize pH, reduce nutrient pollution, suppress harmful cyanobacteria, and restore healthier aquatic and treatment environments. In doing so, our platform helps facilities improve wastewater remediation efficiency while reducing environmental impact.
Our approach involves cultivating specific diatom varieties in self-manufactured, proprietary photobioreactors.
We deploy targeted biological treatment approaches tailored to the specific wastewater or aquatic environment, including the use of selected diatoms, silica-based interventions, or a combination of both depending on site conditions. Our proprietary methods are designed to competitively advantage beneficial biological processes over harmful algal growth, helping remove excess nutrients from water while mitigating ecological issues such as eutrophication and oxygen-depleted dead zones.
Marine sediment generated during this process allows for nitrogen and carbon geological storage, supported by scientific literature.
Step into our innovation realm, where our commitment to cutting-edge solutions is evident. We aim to redefine environmental standards and making a lasting impact with a relentless pursuit of sustainability.
Our biological treatment approach is designed to improve wastewater performance and restore healthier aquatic environments by reducing excess nutrients, organic loading, and harmful algal growth. By supporting balanced biological processes across municipal, agricultural, and industrial wastewater systems, our platform aims to improve water quality, treatment efficiency, and overall environmental resilience.
Combating overfishing by boosting fish
populations.
Reversing the course of decades of runoff
and hypoxia.
Working with relevant local, state, and
federal entities at every step.
Enhancing the ecology of organisms
Lillianah establishes the effectiveness of our technology while addressing environmental problems in the local bays, estuaries, and nearshore marine waters by working and collaborating with local stakeholders. Our dispersals involving native, healthy diatoms supplemented with silica-rich materials, focuses on bodies of water impacted by a loss of marine life. These projects will allow us to optimize our future technological development and approach. Nova Scotia will become the research and developmental hub of our company.
Lillianah addresses environmental problems in the local bays, estuaries, and nearshore marine waters by working and collaborating with local stakeholders like fishermen. Our dispersals involving native, healthy diatoms supplemented with silica-rich materials enables such work to be carried out effectively. Coastal and nearshore marine issues will be tackled by curbing excess river runoff and affiliated carbon dioxide removal. Our long-term goal is to have Louisiana become an ideal work hub for our eco-solutions.
Lillianah aims to globally enhance nearshore marine regions by reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide, addressing significant environmental challenges. We prioritize safety and efficacy, ensuring positive environmental shifts through our vigilant and accountable approach. Ultimately, our oceans will thrive due to our efforts.
We offer a one-shop stop to measuring, reporting, and verifying everything we do in the oceans. To do this requires a 5-step integrated approach that is reliable.
-Carbon dioxide is challenging to measurement directly in the ocean (because it has three dissolved forms)
-But photosynthesis produces oxygen for every carbon dioxide molecule consumed
-Dissolved oxygen is fast, cheap and easy to measure
-Drifting sensor arrays (and eventually autonomous vehicles or fixed infrastructure) deployed to measure photosynthesis – and so CDR – over time and space
- Phytoplankton become lunch for several other groups of organisms in the ocean, but, like us, these consumers ‘breathe’ in oxygen
- We can use the same oxygen sensors to ‘reverse’ to measure oxygen consumption, which is directly related to consumption and respiration of carbon
- This basic technique was developed almost 70 years ago, but is particularly effective and comparatively easy using new technology
- Our oxygen measurements also allow us to track the size and severity of Dead Zones
-The difference between these surface and water column measurements equals the flux of carbon to sediments; however, to be even more accurate and conservative, we also directly measure this flux using ‘sediment traps’ and optical sensors (cameras or light beams)
-The latter approach allow us to actually see and count pieces (particles) or carbon sinking in the ocean. These are also rich automated data streams that can be shared and verified
-Combining all of these approaches is state of the art, gives us direct visual confirmation of CDR, and is superior to the use of indirect measurements or modeling of CDR
-Accumulation of phytoplankton carbon in sediments equals to carbon removed from surface, ocean and atmosphere.
-We know that this can reach high levels, as one can collect marine sediments and literally see the carbon that is present there. Some of this carbon can be thousands to millions of years old.
-However, some carbon will be consumed by (micro)organisms living on and in the ocean floor; their activity should be comparatively slow and they will ‘eat’ preferred forms of carbon.
-We will quantify this using ‘decay curves,’ where we measure consumption of carbon over time, and which has become common practice in some other CDR approaches (e.g., biomass burial).
- It is important to note that we are specifically working in severely impacted areas – polluted Dead Zones - rather than in pristine open ocean areas. Overfishing and massive oil and gas extraction can also occur in the areas we work, which means there are already large greenhouse gas fluxes and heavily altered ecosystems in the locations we prefer to work.
- Based on our decades of research, we expect that nitrous oxide production may decrease and will verify this.
- We also have extensive experience in environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis of overall biodiversity, and expect no negative effect on diversity
-Carbon dioxide is challenging to measurement directly in the ocean (because it has three dissolved forms)
-But photosynthesis produces oxygen for every carbon dioxide molecule consumed.
-Dissolved oxygen is fast, cheap and easy to measure
-Drifting sensor arrays (and eventually autonomous vehicles or fixed infrastructure) deployed to measure photosynthesis – and so CDR – over time and space.
Phytoplankton are consumed by ocean organisms that, like us, require oxygen.
Oxygen sensors are reversed to measure carbon consumption accurately.
This technique, over 70 years old, is now easier with modern technology.
Oxygen measurements help monitor Dead Zone severity and size.
Combining surface and water column measurements with direct techniques like 'sediment traps' and optical sensors provides a state-of-the-art approach to visually confirm Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). This method, counting sinking carbon particles, surpasses the reliability of indirect measurements or modeling for CDR.
Phytoplankton carbon in sediments signals carbon removal from the surface ocean/atmosphere, potentially containing ancient carbon. Some of this carbon is consumed by ocean floor organisms, and we quantify their slow, selective activity using decay curves. This method, akin to biomass burial in other Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) approaches, allows us to measure carbon consumption over time.
We work in heavily impacted areas like Dead Zones with overfishing and oil extraction, causing altered ecosystems and significant greenhouse gas fluxes. Our research expects a decrease in nitrous oxide production, to be verified, and our eDNA analysis indicates no adverse effects on overall biodiversity.
Be part of our team and help us provide a better future for the marine ecosystem.
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