Influent from a facility that makes strawberry, mango, and papaya jelly was causing poor settling, foaming, and blinding of the...
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A Creative Pairing To Overcome Cold Weather – Unique Application
This customer deals with inconsistent and often very low flows. In the winter this leads to fast temperature drops in...
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Sludge Reduction in Elephant Watering Hole – Unique Application
In 2016, a zoo in the Carolinas inquired about solutions for a buildup of sludge and excess nutrients in three...
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Lowering Ammonia in Filter Systems – Unique Application
A current Aquafix customer in Utah has been experiences issues with its trickling filter system during the winter. Every January...
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Lowering BOD & Surcharges in Collection Systems – 2020 Unique Application
In Spring of 2019, the Denver Metro Area water district contacted Aquafix about products for controlling BOD and TSS in...
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Tuna Processing Facility in Mexico – 2019 Unique Application
On the pacific coast in Mexico is one of the world's premier tuna processing facilities. In the wastewater plant the...
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Anaerobic Digester Grease Control – 2019 Unique Application
Qwik-Zyme L is the best option for speeding the breakdown of Fats, Oils, and Grease in anaerobic digesters. This customer...
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Unusual Foaming Filament – 2019 Unique Application
A municipal customer came to us describing a foam that sounded like a foaming filament: either Microthrix or Nocardia. The...
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Unique Application: Resort Town With Flow Fluctuations
It's not unusual for this coastal resort wastewater plant to experience fluctuations in flow. Their plant generally handled those changes...
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Corn Oils Used For Biofuels – Unique Application
An industrial wastewater plant in Illinois has an aerobic and anaerobic process that each receive half of their waste. Every...
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Treating an Organic Dairy – Unique Application
Before TreatmentAfter VitaStim ManureAn organic dairy farm in Central Wisconsin found their farm surrounded by homes. The fact that the...
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Decreasing Polymer Use and Sludge Hauling
POLYMER TOTES REQUIRED PER 100 TONS OF SLUDGE A new plant in the Chicago, Illinois area had the latest technology...
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Yuca Starches in South America – Unique Application
Qwik-Zyme L is being cleverly metered in, using an inverted soda bottle Our distributor Pablo in Colombia, South America came...
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Unique Application: Degrading Canola Oils
MBBR (moving bed bioreactors) use additional media within the wastewater plants to increase the biofilm and speed COD removal rates....
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High Sugar Waste and EPS Sliming – Unique Application
A borough in Pennsylvania was experiencing predictable foaming and poor settling during certain times of the year. They were certain...
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Curbing Sludge Odor and Complaints – Unique Application
Odor is a common source of complaints for municipal plants. It's not at all uncommon to find that their odors...
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Effects of Caustic Soda in Wastewater – Unique Application
A 5000 GPD wastewater treatment plant at a national park in Florida called for advice on adjusting pH in their...
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Unique Application: Wisconsin Onion Odor
While most wastewater issues are evident only to the operators, sometimes they are painfully obvious to anyone in the area....
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Unique Application: Midge Flies in UV Disinfection Room
Clean UV Disinfection Room Secondary Clarifiers This covered UV Disinfection room looks beautiful now, but for a long time it...
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Unique Application: Eliminating Surfactants from a Tannery
BEFORE: Heavy foam due to surfactants AFTER: Foam free after treatment This Illinois municipality operates a 150,000 GPD plant with...
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Unique Application: Bacterial Cultures for Targeted Sludge Reduction
A city in South Carolina operates an SBR wastewater treatment plant, with the effluent being held in a large lagoon....
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Unique Application: Reversing Foam Buildup in an Anaerobic Digester
This company operates a 700,000 gallon anaerobic digester and an EQ tank that the manure and food wastes they receive...
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Unique Applications: Quaternary Amines Incapacitating Lagoon
Quaternary Amine treatment on a wastewater lagoon. Not all issues are straightforward enough to be solved with a single product....
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Unique Applications: Filaments Disrupt Methane Production
BEFORE: Disruptive filaments caused this digester to overflow with foam. AFTER: Foam Buster and Biogas1 stopped the foaming and increased...
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Unique Application: Decomposing Shredded Paper-Cotton Product
The makers of a product similar in consistency to a wet wipe that contains cotton, linen, and polymer were looking...
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Unique Application: Soap Chemistry Harms Wastewater Process
Surfactants: known to consumers as soaps, shampoos, and the like, but known to wastewater operators as a hassle. This Illinois...
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How to Treat Fungus in Wastewater
Every year we get a few calls about a fungus in the wastewater treatment process. It happens when a wastewater...
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Treating Tubifex Worms In Wastewater Treatment Plant
Tubifex worms attached to clarifier axle. The axle pictured is approximately 8" acrossRed worms, blood worms, and midge flies are...
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High Lagoon pH Caused By Algae
Wastewater lagoons will have high pH when algal growth is maximizing, this is due to the release of oxygen and hydroxide alkalinity...
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Bioaugmentation in Grease Traps
Every restaurant has a grease trap of some sort. It is an unpleasant contraption, but a necessity. Grease traps separate...
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Treating Biofouling and Mycobacterium in MBR Systems
Membrane Bioreactors or MBRs are like sheets of fabric (membranes) that filter wastewater with the aid of suspended solids. As...
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Triclosan in Anaerobic Digesters
Hand sanitizer contains antimicrobial agents like triclosan, which is known to disrupt the bacterial environment in wastewater treatment. Over the past...
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Vegetable Processing Wastewater Pond Treatments
In treating waste from a canning or vegetable processing facility, our approach varies depending on what is being processed. Waste...
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Lowering Levels of Total Coliform in Wastewater Lagoons and Decorative Ponds
What are Total Coliforms? Total coliforms are a group of bacteria that are widespread in nature. All members of the...
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