BugJuice - BOD and Sludge Reduction

BugJuice contains a biochemical catalyst, developed by our lab, that when added into a wastewater treatment plant, digestor or sludge storage tank it degrades all the grease, oils, waxes and papers the bacteria cannot. This liberates difficult-to-access carbon and turns it into food for the bacteria, creating less sludge.

This improves settling, creates a denser sludge and gives you much less to haul.   It’s far cheaper than diesel.

Many new wastewater treatment plants do not have primary treatment. This means the aeration basin catches everything including hard-to-digest fats, surfactants, paper products, and complex chemistries sent by industries.

In other words, all the insoluble BOD goes into the digester or sludge storage tank, and BugJuice is going to significantly reduce it.
If you think filaments are causing poor settling, contact the Aquafix Laboratories for microscopic analysis.

BugJuice Benefits

• Improves settling
• Improves dewatering
• Reduces digester sludge volume
• Lowers polymer use
• Lowers sludge hauling

Four years ago we visited Jim, a wastewater operator who wanted a product to put in his aerobic digester to reduce sludge and save hauling costs. Our lab researched and ran tests to understand why certain materials and solids were not breaking down properly.  It took two years to create a biochemical catalyst this powerful and helpful to the bacteria.

We took it to Jim, and it improved his settling and reduced his hauling by 40%. Jim and many operators continue to use our BugJuice and swear by it.

A municipal wastewater operator was called down to the plant at 1 a.m. on a Saturday to find 6 feet of foam on the basins. A company had rinsed out 5 gallons of surfactant out of an old barrel with no idea how it was going to foam in the wastewater plant. The company apologized, only to repeat the same mistake six months later. This time the plant knew the culprit.

Companion Products
AQUABACxt + BugJuice: while AQUABACxt alone can kill midge flies, powerful lasting results come when using it in conjunction with BugJuice.

AQUABACxt is a highly effective, US EPA-registered biological larvicide. It contains a species of bacteria called bacillus thuringiensis (BT), an approved larvicide for controlling red worms and midge flies in wastewater treatment plants. To work, AQUABACxt must be able to reach the midge fly larvae, red worms. This is where BugJuice comes in to aid the larvicide. Red worms will use BOD to build protective cocoons around themselves, which AQUABACxt cannot penetrate. BugJuice degrades these cocoons so that the larvicide can fully reach the red worms.