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Emerging Trends

Another Observation From a Road Warrior! In the world of water and wastewater, emerging trends are beginning to influence the entire industry. In my travels around the country, I am discovering that issues in Arizona are also occurring in Washington, and issues in...

How to Improve Your Lagoon with Bioaugmentation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r91B25-vBI Kathleen Kelly shares 4 ways to improve your lagoon using bio augmentation. Perfect for industrial or municipal lagoons of any size and flow rate.

Webinar – Plant Startup with Tanner Hartsock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxpnrWdEUrw Tanner Hartsock M.S. takes us through the process of starting a wastewater plant and considers different options operators have in solving their challenges. What we didn’t expect was to get such a glowing endorsement from a...

Managing Septage and Grease Haulers

Road Warrior’s Series: Managing Haulers My first response when I hear of systems agreeing to take on Grease and/or Septic discharge to their system is to “just say NO!” How these materials affect wastewater systems is dependent...

Where Have All the Snowbirds Gone?

Another Road Warrior Observation F:M Issues In my travels this year, as limited as they have been (yes, I am suffering from severe hotel withdrawal), I have observed a recurring issue hampering the optimum efficiency of wastewater operations. This issue is the lack of...

Nitrification in Cold Weather

One thing that is definite is understanding of when water temperatures get cold your bugs may not be so happy. One thing that has continued to show up year after year for the last 25 years in the environmental business, especially the wastewater industry, is the idea...

Public Education FOG

https://youtu.be/IRMsv0xzfQY Rick Allen discusses methods for educating the public on fats, oils and grease. This is a short webinar that lasts about 18 minutes.

Biological Nutrient Removal

Biological nutrient removal (BNR) is a process used for nitrogen and phosphorus removal from wastewater before it is discharged. BNR Challenges Conventional biological processes typically do not remove total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) to meet the...

Wastewater System Restart or Initial Start Up?

In the world of wastewater these days there are many challenges that will occur. Some you may have already seen and some may appear in the near future.  One of these many challenges is how to get your plant activated if it is killed off by known or...

Corn Testimonial

Corn Testimonial

Darwin Jeffers of Phillips County, CO used BioLynceus® Lot 125® on his 2010 Conservation Reserve...

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Collection System 0.2 MGD

Wastewater collection systems are prone to accumulate high hydrogen sulfide (H2S) concentrations. Sulfatereducing bacteria (SRB) produce H2S in these systems in
the process of breaking down organic compounds under anaerobic conditions.1 Collection infrastructures are often ideal environments for SRB to grow in abundance.

Wastewater conditions such as, temperature, pH, conductivity, and flow rate (among others) have an impact on H2S production and gas emissions in these systems.

Excess H2S production can cause many challenges for wastewater managers. The gas has a strong unpleasant odor and can contribute to the corrosion of collection pipes, manholes, and other infrastructure components. Additionally, H2S can be hazardous to human life at high concentrations. To mitigate H2S, bioaugmentation can be used to limit SRB growth in collection systems.

Augmenting cultures of bacteria that can outcompete or inhibit SRBs can reduce H2S production in collection infrastructures. The following case study details the use of BioLynceus® ProBiotic Scrubber® OCC (PBOCC) to treat H2S in a collection system.

A municipality in Arizona was having issues with H2S levels in their lift stations and manholes. The gas was degrading the collection infrastructure and causing strong odors. After several residents in the area filed odor complaints, the management actively sought a solution to reduce H2S production.

The city decided to implement bioaugmentation to decrease SRB populations in the collection system. BioLynceus® PBOCC was inoculated in several of the wastewater lines to reduce H2S and associated odors. The product contained highly diversified live cultures of wastewater bacteria.

Figure 1. Hourly average H2S concentrations and air temperatures for line 1 of the collection system. Data was collected over three odalog sessions, [1] pre-treatment (November 6-16), [2] PBOCC treatment session 1 (November 10-18), and [3] treatment session 2 (March 4-13).

In line 1, the average H2S concentrations for the pretreatment session, and treatment sessions 1 and 2, were 207, 114, and 30 ppm. Average H2S was reduced by approximately 45% in the first treatment session, and 86% in the second. Furthermore, the air temperature decreased by seven degrees between sessions one and three and may have indicated a decrease in wastewater temperature.

Section 2.3.2.5 of the EPA design manual for odor and corrosion control of sanitary sewer systems and treatment plants (1985) reported, the rate of sulfide production by SRB increased seven percent/ degree water temperature increase up to 30°C .1 This
information considered, the decrease in wastewater temperature contributed to lowering the atmospheric H2S concentration.

However, the reduction of H2S from 207 ppm to 30 ppm is significant and not entirely a
result of temperature reduction alone.

During the PBOCC treatment, the city did not receive odor complaints. Using PBOCC helped decrease H2S concentrations and related issues in the collection system.

BioLynceus® ProBiotic Scrubber ® OCC helps reduce H2S production in collection systems.

1 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). (1985). Design manual for odor and corrosion control in sanitary sewerage systems and treatment plants. EPA/625/1-85/018, Center for Environmental Research Information, Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati.