Dean Cameron

Dean Cameron is an Australian inventor from Maleny, Australia. He is the inventor of Biolytix and Joinlox. He has received awards for his inventions, including ABC's 2008 national New Inventors award for Joinlox, the 2007 Asian Innovation Award, the People's Choice Award at The Australian and New Zealand Innovation Awards in 2008, and the Clunies Ross Award. He owned Biolytix Water Australia Pty. Ltd. until its liquidation in 2011. Biolytix How it works Biolytix is a sewage treatment and filtration system that works by using natural aeration. The Biolytix Biopod is where most of the process takes place. The water gets separated for the waste and bacterium or worms decompose it into humus; an organic compound that is made by the organisms that live in soil. The Biopod is a layered filter that filters the waste out of the water. Upon installation tiger worms are introduced to the environment of the Biopod to help break down and separate the solid waste from the water. The worms dig tunnels and further aerate the waste, causing the water to trickle through the tunnels and become filtered naturally. The bottom layer is made to filter out all solids larger than 80 microns, leaving clean water at the bottom. The system uses up to 90% less electricity than other systems and has fewer moving parts to replace. Invention Cameron had been trying to produce methane by extracting acids from human waste. He had made an airtight system because the production of methane is anaerobic, but still, he was not getting results. There was still air in the human waste that was interfering with the production of the methane by keeping the system aerobic.