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#1 Guest_Don Damschen_*

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 04:34 PM

BioWorld has the products, technology and experience to help with any size oil spill type cleanup in soil or water. BioWorld Hydrocarbon Treatment is listed on the EPA NCP Product Schedule and licensed by the State of CA as an oil spill cleanup agent. Here are links to appropriate documents.

http://www.epa.gov/O...ts/bioworld.htm
http://www.adbio.com...rem-license.pdf

If you know about a specific project or would like more information, please call me at 800-882-0225.

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#2 Guest_Steven Pedigo_*

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Posted 05 August 2009 - 06:18 PM

Oil Spill Eater II is the worlds most experienced clean up product that can actually address 100% of a spill. OSE II has cleaned up over 13000 spills since 1989 and approximately 4500 of those spills were on fresh and ocean waters. OSE II has also been tested by the U.S. EPA as well as over 30 university's around the world and by over 20 country governments with great success. OSE II is a one step application that only needs to be applied on time. OSE II has no secondary clean up aspects like dispersants cause after contaminating secondary areas as it sinks to the bottom, and then finally cause oil that has rolled up on beaches to be cleaned up a second time by the public. OSE II is easily applied by any spray type apparatus and is the most economical means in the world to clean up a given gallon of oil or fuel. You can see OSE II at www.osei.us
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Posted 24 February 2010 - 10:59 PM

Sarva Bio Remed (SBR,www.sarvabioremed.com) develops and manufactures environment-friendly bioremediation products that address the oil spills at source. One of the salient features of all our products is the speed of effective cleanup. SBR uses a patented technology in which, microbes scavenge the oil from various matrices such as soil and water. The oil is consumed to form natural by-products. Once the oil is consumed, there is no waste for disposal and bacteria die a natural death. Thus, the products are environmentally safe.

VaporRemed® eliminates heating oil fumes almost instantly from any fuel oil spills both in residential homes and in the outdoor situations.

AgroRemed® is used for cleanup of soils contaminated with fuel oil spills. For example, it has been used by Virginia DOT to clean up several highway spills without having to dig up the area.

SpillRemed® (Marine) is included in the NCP list of the US EPA as a Bioremediation agent and we have also received license from the State of California for SpillRemed® (Marine) as a bioremediation agent.

HydroRemed® is used for in situ and ex-situ bioremediation of free product and hydrocarbon pollution of ground water.

We feel that the bioremediation technology is economical, natural, effective and environmentally safe. We would like to know your opinions/thoughts on this forum. If you have any questions, please feel free to write to me at hemantnjoshi@gmail.com or call me at 973 998 1565. Please do visit our website - www.sarvabioremed.com to know more about our products and read reports/case studies.
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#4 Guest_Matthew Evans_*

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 05:06 PM

We have the capability of producing 500,000 gallons of microbes per day cultivated ONSITE (wherever we need to be).



Info on this product:



AMS-101™
A custom blend of 16 naturally occurring aerobic microbes selected for their hydrocarbon degrading capabilities. Although they are aerobic, most organisms of these species will go into anoxic respiration in the absence of oxygen, replacing it with nitrate nitrogen if necessary. Each species is tested after it is grown to ensure desired qualities have been maintained. They are then blended into the AMS-101™ inoculation for cultivation. AMS 101™ provides a multi-species cooperative colony for the degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons, oil & grease, gasoline, diesel, fuel oil, volatile organic compounds (benzene, toluene, xylene), PAH, phenols and alcohols.


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Posted 10 May 2010 - 04:01 PM

I understand Cotton Gin Waste can effectively biodegrade oil in water without having to remove the waste/oil mix from the water. Has anyone thought about using this cotton gin waste in the cleanup effort? The waste could be loaded on a barge and sprayed on the water surface using a mulcher much like the one used to spray mulch on the roadside. The containment rope around the spill would hold the waste/oil mix together while the waste does the job of biodegrading. "Upon contact of the product with water a dormant inocula of microorganisms are revived. They increase in numbers because of food present in the product, biodegrading the chemical spill in situ". I know where there is 7000 tons of dry cotton gin trash if it is needed. That is enough trash to put a 1/32” layer over 200 sq. miles on water.
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#6 Guest_Andrew Blubaugh_*

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Posted 26 May 2010 - 02:26 PM

Is any one out there needing hay blowers for dispursing these microbes on the oil spills, I have machines in stock ready to ship that are capable of spraying these microbes on hay or straw and then blowing the straw out over a oil spill. www.kincaidequipment.com 620-465-2204
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Posted 26 May 2010 - 05:03 PM

INDUSTRIAL MUNICIPAL SUPPLY CO. 9386 ASHLAND ROAD GONZALES, LA. 70737 225-644-3368 SUPPLIES ULTRA-MICROBES.
Microbes occur naturally in the environment and this is why, eventually, after years and perhaps decades, oil spills eventually get cleaned up by mother nature. The naturally occurring microbes in the environment don't have a preference for digesting oil but they will become remediation agents as it contaminates their environment. The Ultra-Microbes are specially bred on sweet Texas crude oil to give them an affinity for digesting oil. By adding Ultra-Microbes to an oil spill you are 'super charging' mother nature and the natural bioremediation process. This is a natural, but highly effective means, to turn a disaster such as an oil spill into a short-term cleanup rather than a long-term challenge.



There are a number of applications where this material can be successfully used in the clean-up. Here are a few examples:

1.The Ultra-Microbes can be added to 55-gallon drums of sea water and mixed. This mixture can then be sprayed onto the ocean surface to immediately start remediating the oil. The microbes digest the oil as a food source and break it down into carbon, CO2 and a lipids that is basically a fatty fish and plant food. The oil becomes non-hazardous. There are two areas where this microbe-mixed water can be applied:



a.Spray directly on the open water slick. One ton of microbes will cover approximately 1 square mile of open water. These microbes are designed to eliminate oil slicks. Approximately 2 lbs is added per 55-gallon drum.

b.Spray directly onto the beach, rocks, vegetation, shoreline, jetties, etc. In this type of application you will be able to cover approximately 4 acres per ton of microbes.

The key in both of these cases is to simply get the microbes to cover as much area as possible and allow the microbes to spread out and colonize and attack the oil. 12.5 billion microbes (per gram) reproduce quickly and become 5 trillion within hours. Each microbe is digesting and remediating the oil sheen as it thrives.
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Posted 14 June 2010 - 11:19 PM

Science likes to isolate events so it can understand how one substance works. However, by doing this they often miss the synergistic effects that could have taken place with complex cultures of microorganisms. EM•1® works as a complex network of beneficial microorganisms. More often than not, EM•1® becomes a food source for the group of microbes that do the actual job. Without the EM•1® present, the indigenous biologicals may not have been able to accomplish the task themselves. The fact that EM•1® microbes co-exist with indigenous microbes is one reason why EM•1® has many varied uses.

# Digest Petroleum
# Accelerate Half Life of Radioactive Compounds
# Break Down Dioxin
# Break Down Ammoniated Hydrocarbons
# Protect Groundwater
# Clean the Air
# Prevent Off-Gassing of Volitile Organic Chemicals (VOCs)

Waterways around the world have been cleaned using Effective Microorganisms™.
Some examples include:

* The Seto Inland Sea, Japan (280 Square Miles in Length)
* Ilusiones Lake, Mexico (484 Acres/ 196ha)
* Lake of Amatitlan, Guatemala (4,448 Acres/1800ha)
* Mikawa Bay, Japan (233 Square Miles/ 604km2)
* Kelian River, Malaysia
* Tiscapa Lake, Nicaraugua
* Bogota River, Colombia.

Effective Microorganisms ™ product, EM•1®, is a liquid microbial product including three groups of naturally occurring beneficial bacteria: Yeast, Photosynthetic Bacteria, and Lactic Acid Bacteria. EM•1® is so safe it is used in enclosed fisheries.

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Hay, sugar cane residue, rice or wheat husks or any shredded bio-mass can all be impregnated with Activated EM•1® in 7 - 14 days to form an absorbant that could be positioned at the entrances of marshlands at the mid-tide mark, like a 2ft. barrier with a small 2ft. retaining black plastic mesh fence on both sides of the barrier. As the oily tide comes in the oil would bind the bio-mass together and the fence would keep it from floating away. The oil would become food and would not have to be reclaimed, only the fence would need to be retrieved after this oil storm.

Concerning the oil plumes. If the plumes are really oil clouds they should be injected with Activated EM•1® at a rate of 1:8,000 - 10,000 so as not to kill the fish (due to bloating)and due to the high concentration of dispersed oil droplets the concentration of beneficial microorganisms would increase the overall effectiveness of this approach.

EM•1® encourages the local beneficial microorganisms to help break-down the oil to proteins and enzymes that are beneficial to the upper organisms (fish and plankton).

I would not use Activated EM•1® impregnated bio-mass on the ocean floating tarballs, except in proper Adsorbent Booms for the boats that are not skimming the oil due to the fact that EM•1® impregnated biomass eaten by fish causes them to bloat and die.

The trouble is that only two solvent have been approved and all microbial agents are needing approval but all oil disaster sites are off limit and no testing is allowed.

EM•1® microbes are not on the EPA restricted list, so what are we to do?

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Posted 27 July 2010 - 08:34 PM

Biofilter boom recently approved by BP and USCG. 20,000' available now, 40,000' in 2 days, and 650,000' in 5 days. Contact me for pictures, pricing, and samples. These are the only microbes approved by the state of Ms. for the bioremediation boom application:


Unlike typical sorbent booms, Biofilter has many fibers with large specific surface areas allowing water currents to pass through while oil residue and tarballs are trapped in the fibers.
The fibers continually filter contaminated water and expand to maximize oil absorption. One mile of Biofilter absorbs an average of 200 barrels of oil every hour, is non-damaging to aquatic ecosystems and can be used in densely vegetated waters.
When combined with microbes, Biofilter creates a stable, oxygen-rich environment for microbes to rapidly multiply and survive, while eating oil. Microbes naturally found in the aquatic ecosystem are applied to Biofilter to consume and convert oil residue and tarballs into water, carbon dioxide and fatty acids (a water soluble food source for aquatic life).
Biofilter acts as a boom equipped with interchanging sorbent fibers 3 – 10 feet in length with varying densities. The fabric fibers are saturated with indigenous microbes already found in the aquatic ecosystem that begins a biogenic process rapidly breaking down oil and petrochemicals upon contact. As the oil is wicked up the fibers, a stable, oxygen-rich environment is created for the microbes to proliferate. The microbes consume the oil, breaking down into water, carbon dioxide and fatty acids (a water soluble food for plants and fish).
Four ways to apply the Biofilter
Float in contained pools of oil-contaminated water
Attached to anchored barrier points in rows directly off the beach at a depth of about 3 – 10 feet
Secured to stationary buoys or slow-moving boats in swamp areas dense with vegetation
Placed on the beach to absorb oil from contaminated sand and water
Biofilter has been reducing the concentration of film-forming petrochemicals in waterways in other parts of the world for the past ten years.
One mile of Biofilter absorbs an average of 200 barrels of oil per hour. Added to Biofilter, microbes continually work to break down oil.
Note: Methods are in place to deal with the contaminated fibers after fibers reached the cleaning and reintroduction maximum in an environmentally responsible way. Rather than being placed in a landfill, fibers can be introduced into a Pyrolytic Thermal Conversion processor that breaks down fibers into a combination of carbon-based by-products including syn-gas, bio-oil and bio-char — each provide unique characteristics and applications. By-products and applications as commodities and other uses can be discussed in more detail.
FIBER LENGTH:
One foot (1’) to ten feet (10’)
BIOFILTER WIDTH:
Three – 90 feet sections
ABSORPTION RATE:
Over 200 barrels per hour per mile
ANCILLARY DEPLOYMENT MATERIALS:
Microorganisms
- 200 pounds per mile
- Listed on the US EPA National Contingency Product Plan Schedule
Floatation device
- Styrofoam (polystyrene)
- Two – four liters recycled plastic bottles
Plastic covered steel cable
Barge
Service personnel”
One anchor, buoy and chain per 150 feet
Plastic covered steel cable








100-1000gpm oil water separators, proven design, the first is arriving tomorrow and going to work immediately:


The system is uniquely designed for ship board installation and the challenges of processing at sea on a rolling ship. The specialized tubular design of the separation cells that contain the oil / water separation process also prevent sloshing oil and / or water over the edges like would occur with conventional separation tanks. Plus this design uses the natural movement of the sea to push the accumulated oil concentration out of the light phase cell discharge port of the separation cells, which are designed for up to 10 degrees movement. This modular system is provides for effective separation of free and emulsified oil concentrations from sea water utilizing patented Split Influent Flow Aeration/Pressurization technology and EPA approved de-emulsifying coagulant chemistry. The oil contaminated sea water is pumped into the cyclonic feed surge tank where free oils are separated and skimmed off the surface. The water then enters the chemical mixing header where the coagulant is injected along with a dissolved air stream. The treated + aerated liquid stream feeds into the tubular flotation cells where the separated oil phase is carried to the surface and discharged down a trough and into the oil sludge collection tank where it will be pumped off the barge into a container vessel. The water phase moves down the tube then up and over the adjustable weir and down a trough where the “clean” water gravity overflows back to sea.

System Components
• Specially designed and fabricated steel 3,500-gallon cyclonic feed surge tank
• Transfer connection pipe-work
• Air Whip dissolved air pump and injection system
• Variable rate chemical feed system 0 to 500-ppm dosage rates
• Specialized mix header and feed distribution pipe-work
• Multiple DAF separation cells
• Oil discharge trough and collection tank with transfer pump
• Adjustable water over-flow weirs and discharge trough
• Pre-assembled
• System Controls 480Vac

Biomass accelerator:

The BioMass Accelerator System is an innovative waste-to-energy machine that utilizes pyrolytic thermal conversion.
Our highly-efficient and clean process converts many types of waste streams into valuable by-products, including hydrocarbon gas (syngas), bio-oils and a nutrient-rich carbon residue called bio-char. These gas and fuel by-products can be used to produce massive amounts of electricity when coupled with energy-producing systems that can be powered by devices like genset generators, boilers and turbines.
The BioMass Accelerator System can process anywhere from 250 to 4,000 pounds of waste per hour. Each system, depending on the amount and quality of the feedstock, can produce 15 kilowatts to 2 megawatts of energy.
All BioMass Accelerator Systems are factory built, factory tested modular systems that are delivered to the site and ready for installation.
The BioMass Accelerator System are combined with genset generators, used to produce electricity and control the off-gas air emissions, which meet California air emission standards. The BioMass Accelerator System operates at low-to-slight negative internal pressure for high degree of safety, creates green power and keeps contaminated waste out of landfills.
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Southern Star Services, LLC
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(601)826-3823
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