MYCELX
filters are successful after just a single, few-seconds exposure
to industrial wastewater.
MYCELX
is also far superior to activated carbon - adsorption technology
which currently represents the most common process in industrial
wastewater treatment. Activated carbon, however, is effective
only with specific compounds according to their molecular size
and water solubility. It is least effective with organic
compounds that are even slightly soluble in water, which
unfortunately covers the majority of natural and
industrial-generated chemical wastes.
A supplemental technology used along
with activated carbon is air stripping, which is most effective
with organic compounds that are volatile in nature.
Consequently, air stripping fails to remove compounds with very
low vapor pressures.
Test Results
MYCELX
has none of the limiting factors that hold back the most common
environmental technologies, and test results to date speak for
themselves.
MYCELX-infused
filters can reduce 200ppb benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and
xylene (BTEX) in water to below detectable limits (BDL) in one
single two-second pass.
A MYCELX MX-4 filter can bring 38,000
gallons of 10ppb benzene in water to BDL in a single two-second
pass.
A recently completed, independent
test reported this past summer (1998) at the Savannah, Ga..,
terminal of one of the oldest and largest tank transport lines
in the United States - has convinced the company's tank-cleaning
division to pursue additional testing after adapting MYCELX chemistry to its own filter
equipment.
In the field test conducted with
Savannah Laboratories & Environmental Services, Inc., a
wastewater sample containing approximately one half-gram per
liter of phenolics was reduced to 78 millionths of a gram - a
magnitude reduction of nearly one million times. Consequently,
Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) was reduced significantly in the
same sample from 405.1 mg./liter to 230 mg./liter. Detectable
levels of zinc were brought down by a third, while other metals
were all below detectable limits.
However, the most significant result
of this initial trial was that all tests were conducted with a
single pass.
"There's nothing out there that
can match these results in one exposure,"
says Hilbig, "because this is
not just another new and improved activated carbon.
