LIST OF ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS AND USES OF MICROMIX BASED BIO-REMEDIATION

Micronomix works within the biotechnological sector with a primary focus is on agricultural and environmental applications for its products. Within both sectors it is an industry leader in the field of research and production of bacterial-enzymatic products, both organic and mineral-organic, whichprovide balanced nutrition for plant nourishment and protection against pathogens in crops and organic decomposition. 

The bacteria that are contained in our products have not been subjected to any genetic modification

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Bacteria-Enzymatic products for: 

• Compost mounds for urban waste, biological mud-cleaning plants, animal and vegetable residues to obtain moist fumes that are absent of odor and vegetables toxins and pathogens

• Deodorizing garbage cans when collecting urban waste 

• Dump site recovery and reduction in volume and the filtering of urban waste contained therein 

• Offensive odor control and treatment of animal wet waste

• Biological treatment of oily emulsions and filtering of dump sites

• Biological purification of industrial and civil waters of heavy metals, pollutants and pathogens

• Cleaning of salt and fresh waters from oil spills, algae blooms, wastewater contamination

• Cleaning grounds and planting grass where land has been polluted by oil etc.

• Cleaning of the air via bio-filters

• Purification of pathogens from waterways 

• Treating domestic drains

• Reduction of hauling frequency from wastewater plants 

 

Organic-mineral fertilizers and organic fluids for conventional and biological agriculture for the purpose of increasing quality and quantity of agricultural produce fertilizers and humus for nurseries and seedling facilities

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Bacteria-Enzymatic organic fertilizers and liquid organic-mineral fluids for: 

• Restoration of fertility in soil beds that are exhausted, polluted, eroded and/or desert

• ​Irrigation with salt water without the desalination process

• Reintroduction of vegetation in furrows 

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Burial articles made of bacteria and enzymes with the purpose of: 

• Absorbing, deodorizing, and decomposing cadavers

• Breaking down tissue 

• Regenerating burial mounds 

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COMPOSTING

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Composting comprises all the complex biological reactions, which orchestrate the decomposition of theorganic material in aerobic conditions (e.g. living micro-organisms coming into contact with air). The ideal components to make up compost can be of animal origin (solid and liquid defecation, leftovers from the butchery, tannery, fishing industries, etc.); vegetable origin (dry sticks, grass clippings, dried fruits, wine residue, algae, olive press residue, market vegetable and fruit waste, remains from distilleries, bottling plants, etc.), mixed origin (urban waste, remains from food industries, etc.) 

During the decomposing process, the injected micro-organisms (following appropriate reactions) alter the organic substances by transforming unstable substances within the more stable composts which contain a slow energy release (humus substances) to a very high energy content ready-for-use (proteins, sugars, cellulose, fats). 

Compost made from recycled agricultural residue using Micronomix technology will result in economic, energy, and material savings. In more detail, companies see a real savings when synthetic fertilizers are used in combination with Micromix compost, because efficiency is increased by 30-70% and the savings rise from 60-90% which can be used to offset the purchase of the micro-elements. Plants are more resilient and require less treatment with pharmaceuticals and there is a lesser need year after year to work the land harder (which in turn means less energy is consumed by mechanical implements). The ecosystem clearly benefits from lesser use of fuel, chemical fertilizers, pesticides and fungicides. Organic humus substances returned to the soil beget a real quality and quantity ratio of improvement for agricultural production. 

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RECYCLING OF FILLED AND OPERATIONAL DUMP SITES

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Permanent stock piling at dumpsites means the following inconveniences: 

• Bad odors formed from years of being sealed off

• Presence of insects and rodents 

• Bed filters which continually reproduce even long after years of total exhaustion of the filled site, often overtaking the life span of the water-tight covering.  Where this occurs, leaking of phyto-toxins may occur and the dump site requires a very long period before it can grow grass and an even longer period for vegetation to grow 

• Recuperation of the land is very costly for even limited use

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All the above and other challenges can be reduced or eliminated with the use of Micronomix remediation products. Our bacteria-enzymatic fluids are specifically created for the use of biotransformation and in general will make compost out of refuse. 

 

Our advantages: 

• Reduction in volume 20 to 45%

• Elimination of bad odors, insects and rodents 

• Filter reduction and a reduction in the trapped pollutants 

• No longer a need to cover treated waste by a thick layer of soil

• Grass growth is established 

• Any leftover composted material becomes an organic fertilizer source, devoid of phyto-toxins 

• Reduction in waste volume…in short, the correct usage of bacteria and enzymes will help channel and control biological processes, which provide for the rapid transformation of waste materialinto fertilizers, through a partial humification of the organic substances, which is and would remain free of phyto-toxins for decades. 

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BIOLOGICAL PURIFYING OF INDUSTRIAL AND CIVILIAN WATERS 

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The micro-organism actions can be final in purifying polluted waters coming from industrial and civilian discharges. Up until today, micro-organisms that have been lyophilized (dried) have been used throughout the industry. They must be rehydrated before being ready for use with further difficult implementations and efficiency problems. The technology provided by Micronomix alleviates these difficulties with the use of a bacterial-enzymatic fluid, commercially known as MicroMix. MicroMix is an organo-mineral product consisting of enzymes and microscopic colonies formed from a multitude of bacterial species ready to be used. The colonies are capable of growing exponentially multiplying the effect due to their synergy in action, supported by natural polymeric units. In particular, the micro-organisms are found in small micro-alveolated granules with a specifically elevated surface that protects preserves the useful bacteria from any aggressive substances. It reinforces the capacity for competition allowing the Micromix organisms to overtake any existing spontaneous bacteria’s antagonistic action without any great difficulty. Pathogens present in the water such as E. coli, Salmonella, Staphylococcus Aureus and Pseudomonas Aeruginosa are overcome and eliminated.  Present in the product are components that are natural in origin and favor zymogenesis (enzyme creation). This complex enzymatic-bacterial blend aligns and accelerates the purifying processes at the same time reducing bad odor and gas emissions. 

 

MicroMix makes for a rapid advancement in active mud purifying plants, and provides for the treatment of civilian liquid wastes, as well as industrial derivatives (i.e. textile, tanning, petrol (gas), oil, pulp/paper, cosmetic, wood, food, distilleries, etc.). It enables a marked control of bad odors. Furthermore, it improves the purifying efficiency of lagoons and accelerates biological processes within leaking wells and sewers. It avoids plant stress situations during peak dumping.  MicroMix allows for a rapid, deep and staying action with a faster elimination of C.O.D., B.O.D., phosphorus, and ammonia. Furthermore, it exercises a vivacious de-nitrifying action, saving electricity because it is able to work with a high efficiency even in the presence of low dissolved oxygen (0.2 mg/L). 

MicroMix is a product with a wide spectrum of action.  It is recommended where it is necessary to be effective in the presence of phenols, fats,  hydrocarbons (foams, soaps, surfactants, anions, cations, non-ions, cellulose of food origin, lignin, sulfuric acid, incrustations of animal and vegetable fat), and in stress situations such as unforeseen discharge, low temperatures, refluxes from industrial kitchens, domestic effluents, and in cases of excessive ‘Nocardia proliferation. 

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DEPOLLUTING WATERS FROM OIL SPILLS 

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Being a complex of substances, oil can be broken down by the micro-organisms which are present in MicroMix Aqua, transforming them into compounds that are not only non-harmful to the environment, but favor the development of flora and fauna. To obtain the best results in each intervention it is necessary to know the conditions in which the micro-organisms and enzymes must act. The basic parameters to know are temperature, presence of sea currents, amount of dissolved oxygen, age of spill, adequate presence of mineral nourishment such as nitrogen and phosphorus. Generally, one single application is sufficient to metabolize the oil in a month or less. If faster action is required, more applications may be necessary. 

 

CLEANING OF WATERS FROM HUMAN SEWAGE

 

Water used for flushing toilets has an organic polluting load that is easily biodegradable. In order to clean this type of water, one needs to install a collection tank for all the wastewater as well as the particulates. From the collection point, the polluted water goes through a tank where an oxidation process occurs and MicroMix bacteria are present. The bacteria provide for the biodegradation of the pollutants. The cleaned waters from the oxidation tank are mixed with the active mud and will flow through the sediment deposit area so that separation can take place and allow clean water to come out and active mud to be recovered. The active mud (bacteria) will be reintroduced into the oxidation tank. The MicroMix micro-organisms can break down the hydrocarbons and other tension-actives and allow the toilet system to flow cleaner. Excess mud can be drawn away and after partial dehydration can be transformed into an excellent organic fertilizer. Rainwater is mainly polluted with less volatile hydrocarbons which are dragged into the sewernetwork. 

 

 

DEPOLLUTING SOILS POLLUTED BY GASOLINE 

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Crude oil spills cause pollution of soil and vanishing vegetation in such a serious manner that the cost of traditional remediation is more than the actual gasoline is worth. When there is no intervention, the gasoline is unified in a slow process by the micro-organisms that are spontaneously available in the environment to neutralize the undesired macroscopic effects. This takes a long time to occur naturally, ranging from a few years to decades. If allowed to proceed spontaneously according to nature, the process is little controlled, and the results are not homogenous. If one treats the polluted surface with the proper bacteria and enzymes such as those in MicroMix, in a small period of time the gasoline components will be changed into a fertile substrate for vegetables. The time taken to obtain these results is rapid, easy and homogenous. Along with the micro-organisms and enzymes in MicroMix, there are nutritive and stimulating substances like amino acids, peptides, proteins, micro-elements, humic, fulvic, and crenicacids which are all well-balanced between themselves. This formula makes way for the start of those biological processes to come together to change the gasoline and hydrocarbons into composting material that will enhance vegetative growth. 

Gas Service stations are points where a high amount of pollution originates, Water from car washlocations are polluted with sand, soil, fine powders, tension-actives and hydrocarbons. These are alsoremediated by Micromix.

 

 

TRANSFORMATION OF CRUDE OIL AND CRUDE OIL RESIDUES INTO AN ORGANIC FERTILIZER 

 

Oils, like all hydrocarbons, are basically carbon and hydrogen.  They can be in a gas form (methane), in a fluid form (oil), or in a solid or semi solid form (tar and bitumen). Fluid hydrocarbons, solid and semi solid, have the advantage of a high carbon content and constitute an excellent high grade base to manufacture organic fertilizers and organic minerals with a high humus content  that will stay in the ground for a long period, thanks to its very slow mineralization. 

 

Solid and semi solid hydrocarbons will require additives to transform into organic fertilizer, to increase the porosity of the biomass, and to allow Nitrogen to ensure that the ratio  of C/N does not exceed the value of 25. The said additives are few, low cost and easily available. In practice, the additives can be the following: 

• Urea, chicken litter, cow litter, or bovine blood 

• Molasses 

• Straw or fine saw dust 

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Composted materials can be useful in a variety of scenarios where rehabilitation is needed and/or contaminants are abundant and require removal. 

 

 

 

REGENERATION OF SOIL VIA THE USE OF MICROMIX 

 

Agrarian land, poor in ‘stable’ humus, is also unstable micro‐biologically speaking. The useful micro‐flora (saprophytes, degraders, mineralizers, etc.), is present only in inferior quantities compared to the healthy soil, and is incapable of bio working and unifying the residues from cultivations and simultaneously introducing modified composts (mineralization process). The land’s micro‐flora must be present in a sufficient number and quantity to make up a bio‐kinesis since a single species is not able to produce the complete decomposition of the organic material.  In MicroMix, populations of synergistic decomposers are numerous, and it is their combined action that brings the biomass to a complete breakdown. The bacteria, rising agents, and molds work in alternative ways, super imposing and interconnecting in the bio‐chemical processes.  Bacteria and fungi provide for the decomposition of the bio‐mass which is animal and vegetable in origin. We almost never encounter a micro‐biotic natural balance in traditional cultivation.  Hence organic residues do not undergo complete biological transformation processes and can become a financial / economic problem by filtering onto superficial impermeable creeks, making water become non‐potable for urban consumption. Only the bacteria that perform the bio‐filtration action can capture the pollutant molecules in a polymeric structure and remove them by possible washout and or lixiviation. Micronomix’s bio‐technologies allow for interventions that are simple, quick, economic and secure for the land by enriching the micro‐biological potential, creating or bringing back the humus which has a rich equilibrium of inherent biological properties, and thus rendering the land very fertile. In this way, the already present bacterial flora is revitalized, and the bio‐chemical competition is stimulated, thereby eliminating pathogens that are present in the soil. For example, in the case of cereal cultivations (wheat, barley, rice, etc.), the chaff residues are broken down by using MicroMix mixed with liquid wastes, vegetation waters, etc., until they are transformed in very little time (60 days for wheat straw and 150 for that of rice) into humus and nutrient substances which will support subsequent cultivations. By using MicroMix in such a way, it speeds the development of a new cultivation considerably.  It is possible to transplant 60 days from the time the waste straw, which stays on the ground after the wheat has been cleared, has been treated. At the end of such a process there is such a deep change in the characteristics of the organic residue present in the tillable soil such that the soil is now aerated and has a healthy tilth.  At the same time, the agronomic micro‐biotic population becomes a sustaining ecology.