Production cycles at food processing facilities can wreak havoc on a wastewater plants ability to do its job. When loading fluctuates, bacteria in the plant struggle to maintain the correct population for the amount of incoming food. This leads to problems settling, poor bod removal, and problem causing filaments.

One strategy is to feed supplemental carbon on the lean days, to help sustain the biology. When the biology is kept at a consistent level it is better able to handle the high loading days. We do this with our SmartBOD carbon supplement. It dramatically out-performs other common carbon supplements, for maintaining quality nutrient removal and settling properties, as found by a study performed at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.