August 2010
We are pleased to announce that we have been informed that our global patent is moving along nicely in the patenting process with first publishing to occur sometime before January 31 2010
May 2010
The second successful full scale pilot on municipal sewage has been completed. The system proved very robust and the results were vary favorable.
Work continues on other industrial and commercial waste streams with positive outcomes.
October 23 2009
We are very pleased to confirm that Boydel has entered into a Global licensing agreement with the Ledcor Group of Companies. www.ledcor.com
Ledcor has the exclusive right to the Boydel CFEC technology with control of manufacture, distribution and marketing of the WaterMiner, PondMiner, PetroMiner and SiltMiner electrocoagulation brands.
We will forward all dealership and end user requests through to the appropriate Ledcor manager for reply. Please email info@boydel.ca with any service requests you may have.
We look forward to a long and successful business relationship with our new partner Ledcor and their management group.
September 2009
We are pleased to confirm the very successful completion of a new high flow sewage treatment pilot demonstration in Victoria, BC utilizing our new patent pending multi treatment zone reactor design and to confirm our solid relationship with our potential new global commercialization partner www.ledcor.com. We look forward to further perfecting of the WaterMiner and sister CFEC tm processing modules, and commisioning very quickly our first permanent industrial and municipal plant installations.
Spring 2009 - Global PCT Patent Filed
BOYDEL is very pleased to confirm the filing of our global effect water treatment patent request. Professional and formal Patent search efforts confirm total uniqueness and inventiveness of treatment system. We look forward to a successful patent award process and distributing our technology widely.
January 2009 - new environmental site sponsorship
BOYDEL is pleased to confirm that they have taken a sponsorship on a very comprehensive environmental knowledge and distribution web site.
You will find us under multiple capability headings including electrocoagulation technologies.
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DECEMBER 2008 - BOYDEL named as Business Excellence finalist by Business Examiner
The Management of BOYDEL was delighted and very honored to learn that they have been nominated and now selected by the Business Examiner Publication as finalists in their annual Business Excellence awards competition, in both the 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year and Technology Business of the Year categories
The awards banquet will be held January 29 2009 at the new Nanaimo Convention Centre in BC, Canada.
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DECEMBER 2008 - two new municipal sewage plant projects are under discussion and planning.
BOYDEL is currently working up a budget to Design Build and Operate (DBO) a six module WWTP for a small coastal community on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. This community of approximately 10,000 people has been quoted a cost of some $18 million dollars for a biological system. BOYDEL will give them secondary treatment using our technology for approximately half of the current budgeted cost.
BOYDEL has been in further detailed conversations with two communities in the Victoria, BC Capital Regional District who are currently looking at $180 million for their share of the proposed $1.2 billion biological tank farm installation. BOYDEL will provide them a 15-18 WaterMiner module treatment plant at an order of magnitude lower cost along with all of the environmental benefits associated with our CFEC technology.
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NOVEMBER 2008 - New interest from Europe
In late November BOYDEL opened a dialogue with an industry equipment supplier in Europe with regard to importing their equipment into Canada in support of two municipal wastewater treatment plants we are designing. We are delighted to report that we have secured the privilidge of importing this company's technology and that after reviewing the BOYDEL technical informationals they have indicated a preliminary interest in representing our equipment in all of Europe.
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NOVEMBER 2008 - National Research Council second visit
We were very pleased to receive a request from the NRC to visit us for the second time. The NRC lead ITA for our area Mr. Warren Negatta, Ph.D requested a tour for the NRC's wastewater expert, Mr. Rolf Stokhuyzen, Ph.D, P.Chem. Over the course of their three hour visit where they toured the WaterMiner module and watched our technology actively and instantly treating raw sewage to a clear water level.
We had a broad discussion of the hydrogen production benefit, low power consumtion and the non CO2 producing realities of our technology. To our great appreciation both Mr. Stokhyuzen and Mr, Nagata advised that we could use their names anywhere with regard to introducing our apparent capabilities et al.
The NRC is looking forward to providing funding and technical support to optimize our hydrogen production and to develop a solid purification and delivery system for ultimate use of the hyrdogen as a fuel for busses, taxi's or even as a fuel cell for the WWTP itself.
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NOVEMBER 2008 - MISTIC Environmental Technology Award
In late October BOYDEL learned that we had been nominated for MISTIC's prestigeous 2008 Environmental Technology award. In late November we were advised that we had been named one of the three top finalists in the category.
BOYDEL was honored at an awards banquet held in the new Nanaimo Conference center attended by 350 local businessmen, senior Provincial Ministers and other named winners. It was a great event where new and beneficial contacts were developed.
It is our hope to one day become a sponsor of this fine group.
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October - November 2008 - work on operating parameters and new higher flow reactor designs
BOYDEL finished the 1million l/p/d WaterMiner® reactor reprogramming upgrade work as well as continues to work optimizing operating parameters for various feedstocks.
With regard to optimization of our sewage treatment parameters, CANTEST developed lab results are confirming ongoing CBOD results of 40 mg/l down to 20 mg/l. TSS readings are confirmed at between 16 and 8 mg/l.
Most interesting and beneficial to our clients we are developing 100% fecal coliform removals when feedstock readings are over 3,000,000 col/100ml. Our LMR work to fully exploit the secondary but important Fentons Oxidation phenomena is bearing important and valuable results.
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October-2008 - design and build first new continuous flow lab micro reactor (LMR)
A very small low volume reactor is required by the company to continue with feedstock trials and new design and technology improvements.
BOYDEL's technical department designed and built a continuous flow 4.5 l/p/m lab micro reactor (LMR) to readily accommodate both new even higher flow design trials and to work with new feedstocks.
Work is being done on workable small volumes of sewage, farm leachates, pharmaceuticals and oil contaminated seawater.
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September 19 2008- Colwood, BC equipment display and technology demonstration
BOYDEL was invited to display our mobile WaterMiner® module at the City of Colwood's Municipal Hall parking lot and to demonstrate our technology treating sewage. It was a by invitation presentation and was well attended by local engineers, politicians and the media. A number of visitors in fact were witnessed calling colleagues urging them to come down and see our demonstration.
Industry has presented a $1.2 billion dollar tank farm process design to treat all of the Victoria, BC regions 129 million l/p/d sewage with a build out of some 5 or more years to complete. The small City of Colwood within this region with some 13,000 people would be responsible for approximately $60 million of this cost. We have offered our technology to the City of Colwood for approximately 15% of this cost and a build time of 18 months.
We are delighted to report that Colwood and BOYDEL are currently working on a pilot test budget and are hoping for a start date early in 2009 after municipal elections and new regional district officers are determined.
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August 2008: Central Canada mining tailings pond treatment opportunity
In August the management and technical group of BOYDEL travelled to Ontario to visit with the staff and management at the Northern Center for Advanced Technology (NORCAT.org) to introduce our soluble and suspended metals recovery technology and to have discussions with regard to setting up a water scrubbing mine research lab in their new facilities, which are expected to open in late 2008 or early 2009.
We also visited a large underground miner and eventually had 5 samples of their various tailings pond waters sent to our lab for testing our removal and scrubbing capabilities. We are very pleased to confirm that we achieved results of over 75% and as high as 99% on a multitude of dissolved metals. This was a very small three minute run time trial, and we expect we can improve all results with a continuous flow that can be dialed in over a relatively short working time.
Update: We hope to return to this project as soon as metal prices recover from the recent metals price crash that the world is experiencing today.
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May 31 2008 : Ladysmith remanufacturing facility
BOYDEL entered into an lease arrangement with a local land developer to lease a 8400 sq.ft industrial building on 1 acre of land to facilitate building additional reactor modules.
This facility is also housing the company's corporate offices and lab.
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APRIL 2008 : After some nine years of research and development on the reactor technology BOYDEL Wastewater Technologies Inc. was founded and Incorporated in BC, Canada to market and introduce the technology for widespread commercial implementation.
The company founders are Randy Boyle, one of the original inventors of the technology and Randy DeLuca, a senior manager from the R&D company.
The company will be focused on sewage treatment, mine leachate mineral recovery and on hydrocarbon capture in the petroleum drilling industry as well as final development for a continuous 1,000,000 l/p/d on-water ocean oil spill recovery system.
The company has a globally relevant product and will be looking to develop exclusive distributorships and licensing agreements with industry players both regionally, continentally and by market segment.