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Turning Environmental Liabilities to Leverage !!!

Now a days major companies are focused on the bottom line- Sustainable development, gaining profitable market share and increasing your customer's loyalty are key issues that management must continually track and improve.

Production costs, maintenance costs, environmental liability and operational safety are key areas where improvements and optimization help deliver these goals. Adding value to your operations and hitting on these areas is our goal at Environmental Leverage. Bringing you the latest technology to save you time and money are critical to the success of your operation.

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Total cost of operation reductions

System Reliability and sustainability

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Improve operational safety

Solids Reductions: Study and benefits

The U.S. EPA estimates that the 16,000 publicly owned treatment works in the country generate approximately 7 million tons of sewage sludge annually. About 60% of this is treated to generate biosolids that are beneficially used as a fertilizer on farmland. Of the remainder, 17% ends up buried in a landfill; 20% is incinerated; and about 3% is landfill or mine reclamation cover. Only a small percentage (much less than 1 percent) of the total food supply in the U.S. has been fertilized with biosolids. Biosolids provide farmers with $60 to $160 per acre worth of fertilizer, including many essential nutrients that the farmer may not normally replenish in the soil. Biosolids also contain valuable organic matter that improves the health, quality and structure of the soil. Sewage sludge that is either placed in a landfill, used as landfill cover, or incinerated is not biosolids.

The University of Alabama has just issued a technical paper to be presented at the WEF Conference 2003 showing the results of using B500 in a pilot plant study designed to duplicate a real life 20 mgd facility. The full paper should be available for downloading from our web site www.biobugs.com within a few days if copyright is not an issue.

This was a well-managed and operated evaluation. They operated three pilot reactors, and Bio-Systems was the chosen bacterial bio-augmentation product and a stimulant only product was also selected for evaluation.

Performance of the bio products was looked at against the control reactor and historical data on the pilot plant performance.

The results were analyzed statistically and following conclusions reached:
At 90% confidence Bio-Bugs B500 achieved 76 to 81% reduction in biosolids yield compared to 73% for the control and stimulant only product. At 75% confidence The stimulant only product reduced solids production 2 to 10%, whereas the BIO-BUGS B500 achieved 23 to 26% reduction.

The conclusion was that the amount of solids produced by the full-scale facility would be reduced by 26% with a possibility of more substantial reduction to occur.

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www.biobugs.com or WWW.EnvironmentalLeverage.com