The food processing plant is located in Pampanga. This meat processing industry is known for their hotdogs and other processed meat products locally and internationally with one of the highest ISO Accreditation and Certification in terms of Food Processing Industry. The wastewater generation is at around 350 cubic meters per day processed into their SBR (Sequencing Batch Reactor) wastewater treatment facility. Treatment units for the plant composed of DAF (Dissolved Air Flotation), Equalization Tank and SBR Tank unit.

Specific Problems and Issues

The major problems encountered for the facility were high concentrations of BOD, fats, oil and grease plus nutrient concentrations as additional monitoring parameters. Another major concern were no sludge volume in the SBR tank plus oil and grease accumulation. Odor as nuisance has also been a problem in the vicinity due to fats oil and grease (FOGs) problem on their wastewater treatment facility.

Our Solution

These issues could be addressed by bioremediation. It is a process of treatment and breaking down of environmental pollutants by microbial metabolism. In the recent years, biotechnological approaches that could carry out remediation has gained a great deal of attention since it’s a natural process that is cost effective and would require less energy and manual supervision compared to other technologies. 

The Microbe-Lift® series is an advanced bioremediation technology that contains a complete consortium of Bacterial cultures that degrades almost all kinds of organic waste in your wastewater which helps improve its quality and can enhance composting efficiency of biodegradable wastes. Microbe-Lift contains a wide array of bacteria that can immediately multiply upon contact with polluted water. Moreover, these bacteria produce enzymes responsible for organic degradation.

MICROBE-LIFT/IND (Hi-Count) is used to address the failed effluent parameters of the Dressing Plant. MICROBE-LIFT/IND a highly active liquid culture consortium designed specifically for use in practically all environmental applications. Microbe Lift IND select cultures promotes increased biological degradation capabilities in all types of designs of biological wastewater systems, lagoons and polluted environments. Microbe Lift IND consortium is very effective in degrading hard to degrade complex compounds such as fatty acids, various chemical compounds, hydrocarbons and fibrous matters that indigenous bacteria often unable to degrade them, hence result in system performance deficiency.

Visual Comparison and Technical Data

Effluent Results of Wastewater Analysis tested by DENR Accredited Laboratory: