Benefits
Key benefits of the water treatment blends include removal of hydrocarbons, suspended solids, pond scum and algae and water clarification. Soil treatment blends remove or reduce hydrocarbons (oil and diesel), pesticides, herbicides and many noxious chemicals. The results are clean water and soil often suitable for reuse as agriculture land, parks or real estate development.
Bioremediation
One of the methods used to remediate or clean-up toxic waste is bioremediation. Bioremediation is a treatment process that uses naturally occurring microorganisms, such as yeast, fungi or bacteria, to breakdown hazardous substances into less toxic, or even non-toxic, substances. Bioremediation technologies assist the growth of microorganisms and increase microbial populations by creating optimum environmental conditions for them to detoxify the maximum amount of contaminants. The specific type of bioremediation technology used is determined by several factors, including the type of microorganisms present, the site conditions, and the quantity and toxicity of contaminant chemicals. Different microorganisms degrade different types of compounds and survive under different conditions. Bioremediation treatments may be in situ or ex situ. In situ bioremediation treats the contaminated soil or groundwater in the location in which it was found. Ex situ bioremediation processes require excavation of contaminated soil or pumping of groundwater before treatment.
Bioremediation encompasses opportunities not only for the remediation or cleanup of private, commercial and industrial sites, but of government sites as well.
Applications
1. The Bio-Gac (Granulated Activated Carbon) reactivation technology is a unique patented technology of BUGS and allows the reuse of activated carbon used in vapor and liquid filtration processes. No longer do you have to dispose (burn) of the contaminated carbon, you can now recycle it (often on site) and reuse it over and over again saving cost, greenhouse gas and diesel exhaust emissions from transporting the contaminated GAC.
See these articles below for a complete description – licensing opportunities are available:
2. U.S. Microbics (BUGS) has licensed microbial cleanup technology to Green Mountain Development (formally know as Sub-Surface Waste Management – SSWM). SSWM has produced many case studies describing the efficacy of the BUG’s microbial technology for a variety of bioremediation cases ranging from beach sand cleanup to underground storage tank (UST) cleanup to refinery and many others. This page links to many of the case studies and actual project results obtained with the technology are given below:
Hydrocarbon Diesel Cleanup – Little Country Chevron
Hydrocarbon Remediation Case Study – Signal Hill
3. Consumer and Industrial hydrocarbon treatment products include:
SPILL KILL PRO™, an oil spill cleanup product for soil and tank applications and SIZZLE CLEAN™ – a microbe water based fizzing tablet for parts cleaning applications. Both products are still undergoing product packaging and labeling updates and should be available in the late 2011 for worldwide distribution.
