Comprehensive bioremediation services built on science, safety and sustainable practice.
TPH, GRO, DRO, BTEX, MTBE, PAHs and weathered paraffin products all breakdown in a series of steps to methane, and eventually to carbon dioxide and water. Different microbes and enzymes are required for each step of the breakdown process. However this all natural method requires time which sometimes is not available in cases of quick turn-around and in emergency spill cleanup.
Toxic sludges and spills that occur sometimes, requires timely and yet environmentally safe treatment, which cannot be achieved by using microbial treatment. This requires a hydrocarbon degrader, that cleans, degreases and completely eliminates petroleum product contaminants from soil, water, industrial equipment, storage facilities, and means of transportation.
Biorem covers both ranges of products that complements each other without destroying the microbial cultures and has usage in the following industries:
Water in industrial operations (seawater or freshwater) is used as process water for condenser / heat exchanger or boilers. Most of the process piping in these applications are prone to scaling and hence blockages. Similarly, in Dairy and Sugar industries the piping caries Product and hence blockages and maintenance requirements are different. Biorem offers an array of custom made products.
Biorem range of products are environmentally safe, water soluble, degreasing and cleaning agents instead of solvent based environmentally damaging chemical reagents.
Use of microbial formulations eliminates pollutants such as heavy metal, chemicals, pesticides and fertilisers, balances pH at various water depths and strengthens natural microbial populations that support and help rebuild the presence of phytoplankton (microscopic plants), zooplankton (microscopic animals), shore plants, submerged plants and floating plants providing healthy balanced environment. This removes Eutrophication hence excessive nuisance plant growth.
Coal and Iron-ore mining operations impacts water streams to a pH of 4 or lower - similar to battery acid. These mines, both active and inactive, produce piles of mine waste and turn the land into a barren terrain. The soil, the mine waste, and water run-off are often acidic and contain high levels of oxidised iron, sulphur, manganese, aluminium, and other heavy metals. Microbes in a consortium reverse damage and detoxify metals in streams where pollution has occurred.
Landfill sites receive hazardous waste which leach out toxic liquids and emanate noxious fumes. They also contain high levels of nickel, zinc, arsenic, lead, chromium and other metals. Leachate is the liquid formed when waste breaks down in the landfill and water filters through that waste. This is highly toxic and pollutes the land, ground water and other water ways. At active landfills, microbial mixtures are sprayed on the accumulating landfill waste, jumpstarting degradation process.
Sodium chromate, chromium salts and chromium sulphate tanning powder are used in leather tanning operations. Land, soil and groundwater get contaminated over continued unregulated usage, leading to hexavalent chromium potentially affecting people. Bioremediation is the only process that can restore land and water to safely usable levels.
Chlorinated and other complex compounds require an additional step to separate the chlorine, fluorine, etc. from the compounds. This is an anaerobic degradation step called "reductive de-chlorination". Industrial mixed waste usually includes most of chlorinated, semi-volatile and volatile compounds, as well as heavy metals including arsenic and cyanide. There are sites where aqueous metal working fluids, bitumen (coal tar) and cyanide may also be present. Biorem can handle combinations of problems.
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