Fats, oils and grease in wastewater systems cause a range of problems including: excess BOD/COD contributions, clogging, fouling, foaming and floc floatation as well as promoting the growth of filamentous bacteria. In many wastewater systems the present microbial population may not have the necessary tools to deal with the growing challenge of FOG.
Evogen FOG has been formulated to address the limitations of waste water systems such as grease interceptors and traps in dealing with fats, oils and grease from a variety of sources.
The unique blend of superior FOG degrading microorganisms combined with a selection of enzymes offers both a rapid and prolonged response to the degradation of organic materials.
How it works
The product works via a two-pronged approach in which the enzymes provide an immediate response to help loosen and liquify organic materials and FOG and the nonpathogenic Bacillus bacteria provide a longer more sustained response.
Typically, the resident microbes within a wastewater system lack the capability to fully degrade FOG leading to issues associated with clogging, bulking and floc floatation. Using both classical microbiology and cutting-edge genomic investigations, Genesis Biosciences have put together a consortia of Bacillus bacteria that can degrade FOG fully down to CO2 and water. This has been achieved by combining microbes that secrete a diverse range of enzymes and biosurfactants to break down different FOG types to more digestible components, allowing the Bacillus to colonise a system using the FOG as their food source. This action helps to maintain the integrity of services, reducing the need to empty units as often as well as decreasing the likelihood of blockages due to FOG deposits.
Further to FOG degradation, diverse extracellular profiles of the Bacillus allow for broad substrate utilisation enabling the degradation of a range of animal and plant materials in effluents improving both effluent and sludge parameters.
