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Improve Soil Flushing and LNAPL Removal with Petrox EC

Petrox EC is a product that combines a surfactant with petroleum-degrading microbes to improve separate phase oil recovery and bioremediation of residual oil. The combined approach improves the rate of oil removal from soil and other subsurface media and establishes a beneficial petroleum-degrading microbial population that will treat tightly bound or deeply penetrated oil. Petrox EC has been ...

Types of bioremediation and their modes of action

An Urgent Call for Change in U.S. Oil Spill Response With Bioremediation Agent Type EA* bearing out as a workable first response alternative to the use of chemical dispersants, contrasting evidence ...

Encouraging bacteria to clean up oil spills

Catastrophic accidents account for 9 per cent of the oil released into marine environments. Several disasters, including the 1989 Exxon Valdez in Alaska, and the Prestige incident, off northern Spain in 2002, have seen the use of 'bioremediation' as ...

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Treatment for Fats, Oils & Grease

MICROBE-LIFT / GT is a highly active dry culture consortium design specifically for use in industrial and municipal wastewater facilities to promote enhanced biological degradation of difficult to degrade grease, fats and oils. MICROBE-LIFT / GT provides rapid breakdown and digestion of animal and vegetable greases as well as difficult to degrade long chain fatty acid compounds. GT improves ...