Qwik-Zyme P – Protein Degrading Biocatalyst

Qwik-Zyme P is a biocatalyst that breaks down the complex proteins in dairy waste, meat packing, egg processing, and other waste with complex proteins. Proteins are the building blocks of biological life, and they can often be difficult or slow to digest in wastewater treatment. In the case of dairy waste, the protein is a milk solid called casein. Casein is a very complex and interwoven protein that takes a significant time for bacteria to break down. In order to begin the process, they require the catalyst that Qwik-Zyme P provides.

Using Qwik-Zyme P at the head of the plant improves a number of plant conditions. This product liberates the difficult-to-access proteins and converting them into nitrogen for your system, allowing reduced nitrogen supplementation. It will increase settling, lower sludge production, speed COD breakdown, reduce foaming, and lower COD while improving polymer function on the back-end to decrease the presence of any odors. Since casein is a phosphoprotein, Qwik-Zyme P will also improve phosphorous removal downstream.

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Qwik-Zyme P: Essential in Dairy Waste

If you have a cheese plant with foaming or odors in the sludge storage tank, this is partly due to undigested casein. Bacteria can break down milk sugars easily, but the milk solids, like the protein casein, are especially tough. Casein passing through will cause many issues in plants. Qwik-Zyme P will quickly degrade and fix this, while also lowering COD levels and stopping odors.

Qwik-Zyme P is great to apply to the head of the plant. This is a quick fix if you have 10# of food quickly passing through a 5# box. This product has saved at least one cheese plant from expanding their wastewater treatment plant.

This Illinois Cheese plant has a Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) followed by an aerated lagoon system. In February of 2013 their WWTP went down and 4,000# per day of waste went directly into this pond. The lagoon was covered in ice and they knew the pond was going to stink once the ice melted. They began feeding VitaStim Polar and Qwik-Zyme P to prevent odors and reduce the COD. On April 25,2013 there were no odors and the COD of the water was down to 60. The operator was amazed!

This Illinois Cheese plant has a Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) followed by an aerated lagoon system. In February of 2013 their WWTP went down and 4,000# per day of waste went directly into this pond. The lagoon was covered in ice and they knew the pond was going to stink once the ice melted. They began feeding VitaStim Polar and Qwik-Zyme P to prevent odors and reduce the COD. On April 25,2013 there were no odors and the COD of the water was down to 60. The operator was amazed!

A Revolutionary Product for All Protein Waste

Undigested protein waste is an issue with many sections of the food processing industry. Qwik-Zyme P provides the tools bacteria need to digest any complex protein found in wastewater. Instead of turning into sludge in your storage tanks or lagoon, Qwik-Zyme P turns this waste into fuel for your beneficial bacteria.

Qwik-Zyme P Application

  • Cheese Plants
  • Dairy Plants
  • Meat Packing Plants
  • Breweries
  • Rendering Facilities

Qwik-Zyme P Benefits

  • Works quickly
  • Breaks down casein
  • Speeds up COD breakdown
  • Reduce sludge
  • Lowers COD
  • Improves polymer function
  • Decreases presence of odors
  • Improves phosphorous removal

Improving Anaerobic Digestion of Protein for Meat Processors

The graph to the left shows the magnitude of the slopes in our oxygen uptake testing in our control verses 10 ppm Qwik-Zyme P. The slope in an oxygen uptake test represents the rate of oxygen uptake.

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Product Info Downloads

Download Qwik-Zyme P SDS

Download Qwik-Zyme P Product Sheet

Download Qwik-Zyme P Dairy Product Sheet

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Qwik-Zyme P Case Study

Brewery

Challenge

A brewery had a yeast outbreak and it caused bad foaming, poor settling, and bad effluent. The problem persisted for a couple of months until they called us.

Solution

Add 2#-3# Foam Buster to help with the foam and add 1 gallon of Qwik-Zyme P to improve settling.

Results

After experimenting with the dosage rate we were able to come up with the perfect solution. Just one day after adding Qwik-Zyme P the plant settled perfectly and the customer was ecstatic.

Landfill Leachate Waste

SAMPLE(s): “SBR”

TEST 1: reduce foam and NH3 (also COD) with Aquafix products

  • Goal: reduce foam and improve nitrification
  • Test dates: 5/7/12 – 5/11/12
  • Set up: 32oz glass straight sided jar + 400ml mixed sample + D.O. 2mg/L + 20ppm per day products for 5 days

Results:

(see the chart below)

Test 1: Reduce COD, NH3 and foam with Aquafix products

Results for COD and NH3 reported in mg/L.  50ppm Urea was added to each jar on days 2, 3, and 4.

Landfill Leachate Waste Click on chart to enlarge

Conclusions:

  • There was no foam in any of the test jars during the duration of testing.
  • Qwik-Zyme P or Foam Buster after adding 20ppm every day for 5 days seemed to reduce COD and NH3 further than the other products tested and the control.
  • There seems to be some protein in this waste stream since the ammonia was higher in the test with Qwik-Zyme P after day 1 than it was with the addition of any of the other products or the control.  This is probably due to the breakdown of proteins which in this case are concentrated in the bacterial EPS.
  • For all products tested, COD may increase a little after 1 or 2 days but then will drop by day 4 and 5.

2 reviews for Qwik-Zyme P – Protein Degrading Biocatalyst

  1. Joe –

    I started using Qwik-Zyme P and I went from 18 inches of visibility in my clarifier to 48 inches. That stuff works, holy cow.

  2. Bill –

    The consensus is that your rocks. The Foam Buster sparks crazy protozoa, when we had a problem settling and dewatering, Qwik-Zyme P worked instantly to correct that problem. It’s all working well now, and no doubt your stuff played a big part in that. It’s nice to have those tools handy.

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