Sonic has exclusive rights to technology assets that provide the Company with a powerful platform for new and enhanced industrial and environmental processes. The Sonoprocess™ technology utilizes a patented family of sonic generators proven in several large scale process applications. Sonic energy has proven to be beneficial in many chemical, physical or biological processes, however, until now the use of sonic energy in large scale process applications has not been possible.

Sonic has proven the technical efficacy of several Sonoprocess™ applications. Environmental applications include the treatment of soil and waste streams contaminated with polychlorinated organic compounds, groundwater treatment, conditioning of ash from thermal boilers, and biological sludge treatment. Industrial applications include fine grinding, de-agglomeration of feedstocks and resource recovery and extraction in oil and mineral processes.

Sonic’s primary technology is the PCB Sonoprocess™ which chemically destroys polychlorinated biphenyl and many other persistent organic pollutants in liquid and slurried waste streams. Sonic has constructed full scale treatment facilities using this process and has successfully deployed these facilities on-site to treat PCB contaminated soils to less than 2 ppm. The system can be used to directly destroy the PCB in soil and sediment slurries or integrated with technologies to first extract and concentrate the PCB contaminant.

Sonic’s Terra-Kleen solvent extraction technology is a passive extraction system which removes and concentrates PCB and other contaminants from soils, sediments, sludge, and debris. Passive extraction systems are advantageous where soils contain organic and fine materials as the volume of concentrate is kept to a minimum. The Terra-Kleen solvent extraction technology removes semi-volatile and non-volatile organic contaminants from soil results in a highly concentrated material that serves as feedstock for the PCB Sonoprocess™.