Industrial & Commercial
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Promotes Hyper-Aerobic Activity
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Stops Sulphide Production, Odour & Corrosion
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Reduces F.O.G. & Bio-Film Buildup
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Effective In Liquid Or Solid Waste Conditions
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Easy To Dose Liquid
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Non-Hazardous & Safe To Handle
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Cost Effective
What is Ensol Edge?
ENSOL EDGE is a liquid bio-stimulant designed to rapidly reduce sulphides, related odour and corrosion, and F.O.G. It does this by accelerating the conversion of a biomass to the aerobic state, without having to spread it or mechanically pump air into it.
ENSOL EDGE is a pH neutral, non-biocide, non-enzyme, non-bacterial and non-volatile, translucent blue/black liquid. It is also a hydrated compound which attracts moisture allowing the bacteria to keep working, and contains a surfactant to allow it to migrate into a biomass.
How Ensol Edge Works
Generally speaking, waste digestion systems have two states:
Anaerobic - The bacteria don’t have a readily available oxygen source. Digestion is relatively slow and the basic by-products are sulphides, ammonia and methane gas.
Aerobic - The bacteria have a readily available oxygen source. Digestion can be many times more effective than anaerobic digestion. Does not produce the same undesirable by-products.
ENSOL EDGE provides readily available oxygen (in densities exceeding that of D.O.). This takes waste hyper-aerobic. The facultative bacteria become hyper-aerobic and break down waste at a rapid rate, without creating toxic, odour producing by-products.
Wastewater Challenges
Odour and Corrosion
Sulphides often result from the microbial breakdown of a bio-mass in the absence of oxygen and nitrates. Odour complaints are generally associated with hydrogen sulphide (H2S) gas, which can be released from turbulent wastewater containing dissolved sulphides. This can also result in the production of sulfuric acid, and corrosion by sulfuric acid can lead to the structural failure of the sewer system.
ENSOL reacts with the sulphides to reduce them to non-odourous compounds and / or elements, while also providing the bacteria with the necessary nutrients and oxygen to prevent any further formation of dissolved sulphides.
F.O.G.
Grease traps are designed to capture fats, oils and grease (F.O.G.). F.O.G. keeps building up in these traps until the traps need to be emptied, and can also build up on the walls of waste water systems, restricting or blocking flow.
Spraying F.O.G. with ENSOL allows bacteria to aerobically digest the F.O.G. at a high rate. ENSOL will also reduce the amount of F.O.G. coating surfaces inside waste water systems.
Solids
Aerobic bacteria have been found to be many times more effective at digesting waste than anaerobic bacteria. ENSOL provides readily available oxygen to the facultative and aerobic bacteria, allowing them to become hyper-aerobic and rapidly break down waste without producing toxic by-products such as sulphides.
Ensol vs Dissolved Oxygen (D.O.)
Oxygen is not very water soluble. This means that it does not take much oxygen-consuming life to deplete the D.O.
ENSOL supplies large quantities of a molecular active oxygen that is readily available to the bacteria and which they prefer over D.O.
Composition
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Nitrate blend: The product contains compounds which form a nitrate ion. When oxygen levels are very low, aerobic and facultative bacteria can get their oxygen from nitrate. This is not necessarily the addition of oxygen. Instead, the nitrate ions serve as an electron acceptor in the oxidation pathway of aerobic and facultative bacteria in an anaerobic environment.
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Calcium: As well as being a source of nutrition for cell development in bacteria, the calcium ion will precipitate out calcium sulfate, lowering the concentration of the sulfate ion, depriving anaerobic bacteria of their oxidant source. Combined with a nutrient source for oxidation of facultative and aerobic bacteria, this compound plays an important role in ensuring that the aerobic bacteria out-compete the anaerobic bacteria.
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Ammonium: The ammonium ion contributes to the rapid growth of the microbial population and can also function as an electron donor in the respiratory path of aerobic bacteria.
Compatibility
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In the concentrated state that ENSOL is normally used, mixing it with a product that contains chlorine (such as bleach) will produce a reaction, releasing gasses that are harmful.
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Mixing highly diluted ENSOL with disinfectants may not produce noticeable harmful gas or products. However, they will eliminate the bacteria, thereby eliminating the desirable properties of ENSOL.
Dosing
Dosing to reduce or eliminate the sulphides and sulphide production controls odour, corrosion, solids and F.O.G.
Typical dosage rates vary from 20ppm to 50ppm. This depends on variables such as the B.O.D., dissolved sulphides, H2S gas and F.O.G. levels. The initial dosage rate may need to be higher, 100ppm or more, to overcome any backlog. The rate can then be adjusted down as the system is cleaned up.
Short Term Control:
For short term odour control, the required dose needs to be enough to eliminate the existing sulphides, and therefore is generally determined by the amount of dissolved sulphides present in that biomass.
Long Term Control:
For long term odour control, an initial dose is required to eliminate the existing sulphides, and from then on the biomass is dosed to maintain the aerobic condition so that new sulphides are not produced. This rate is determined by the BOD of the biomass and in general, the length of time the aerobic state is desired.
Application
ENSOL can be applied by introducing it into the flow pattern using a dosing pump to maintain a continuous dosage at the correct levels.
Supply
ENSOL can be supplied in the following containers (MOQ of 50L):
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5L Jerry Can
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20L Jerry Can
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200L Drum
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1000L IBC / Tote
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FCL (10 IBC's)
