Model VB997 -Soil Contaminate Remediation

Natural soil remediation is biodegradation where trillions of microbes already in the soil eat billions of tons of dead and decaying organic matter every year and convert it into non-organic soluble or gaseous compounds. These compounds in turn take part in further soil processes to form humus that provides nutrients to plant life. Collectively these processes to form humus are referred to as mineralization.

Importantly, some of these soil microbes (approximately 20%) also consume the hydrocarbons commonly found in oil and petroleum products. When a spill occurs, these hydrocarbon-eating microbes begin to emit enzymes to break down the contaminants, releasing only water and carbon dioxide as “waste.” They literally have a feast and are able to quickly increase in number.

However, because of the sudden increase of populations, critical nutrients for growth in the soil like carbon (in the form of smaller carbon chains), nitrogen and phosphorus quickly become depleted. These elements along with hydrogen and oxygen are the main elements required for reproduction, and without these nutrients, the growth of the microbial population is impeded. The microbes become unhealthy and begin to die off, leaving the contaminating hydrocarbons in the soil virtually untouched.

VB997 Soil remediation with bioremediation technology provides the right nutrients in the right quantities to encourage the right microbes to be healthy as in-situ nutrients are depleted. It also provides key life-source nutrients to the necessary microbes in a form that ensures their accelerated reproduction and continued biodegradation activities.

1. Carbon, Phosphorus and Nitrogen help Microbes Speed Non-Toxic Mineralization — Rapid mineralization of the contaminant is a result of having large, active populations of native microbes, which produce essential enzymes needed to break down the contaminants to carbon dioxide and water. VB997 provides the vital nutrients for the growth and health of native microbes present at the contamination site. Accelerating their growth is the key to accelerating biodegradation with no threat to the extant ecological balance.
2. proprietary Technology Creates Effectiveness — BioNutraTech`s unique proprietary oleophilic coating clings tenaciously to contaminants naturally and without harmful residuals, assuring useful concentrations of nutrients for the microbes as they work their way through the contaminant. The oleophilic coating also acts as a readily available source of easily metabolized carbon for the microbes as they eat it along with the other nutrients in VB997 Soil. The effect is time-release feeding – making VB997 Soil bioremediation more effective than other remediation approaches.