Biodegradation Capabilities of BioTherm Eliminator
BioTherm Remediates tainted soil and water.
BioTherm Biodegrades hydrocarbons, oils, sewage, and manure quickly.
BioTherm Eliminator "Waste Digester" exhibits an exclusive biodegradation stimulation capability. Extensive lab and field testing indicates that it acts like a synthetic enzyme catalyst, without the limitations of temperature and pH associated with biological enzymes1. BioTherm quickly catalyzes the degradation of alkanes, oils, hydrocarbons, cellulose wastes, and sewage without itself being depleted and is under Canadian Government approval as environmentally safe.
BioTherm Eliminator Benefits:
- In situ bioremediation of contaminated water and soils.
- Rapid biodegradation of hydrocarbons and organic wastes such as sewage, manure, and cellulose wastes from agricultural and food processing.
- Stimulates bacteria to utilize phosphorus and nitrates from the hydrocarbons and organic wastes as a source of energy in aerobic respiration.
- Promotes aerobic biodegradation of wastes and eliminates wastes stench.
- Eliminates Struvite by dispersion of the calcium, magnesium, and uric acid deposits.
Major Metabolic Pathways for Hydrocarbon Biodegradation.
The initial steps in the biodegradation of hydrocarbons and organic waste by bacteria and fungi4 involve the oxidation of the substrate by oxygenases2, for which molecular oxygen O2 is required. (O2 is dissolved air in the liquid solution. Substrate being alkanes, oils, fats, hydrocarbons, cellulose, and sewage waste.)
BioTherm Eliminator enables the combination of oxygen O2 at the molecular level with the substrate, triggering the subsequent conversion of alkanes, oils, fats, hydrocarbons, cellulose and other wastes, to carboxylic acids that are further biodegraded via β-oxidation3 to a harmless reduction of carbon dioxide, water, and cell biomass which is mostly protein and can be safely assimilated into the food chain.
Biodegradation of Sewage, Manure, Agricultural and Food processing Waste.
The biological degradation processes concerning the biodegradation of cellulose wastes from sewage, manure, agriculture, and food processing waste, is accomplished by continuous synthetic enzymatic activities of bacterial and fungal cells involving the oxidation of the substrate by oxygenases2 which provide improved biotechnological tools for the farming, food, and sewage degradation industries.
NOTES:
1Biological enzymes are catalysts which act in a narrow operating range of temperature and pH. When these enzymes catalyze a redox reaction they are classified as oxygenases2.
2Oxygenases: Enzymes that oxidize a substrate by transferring the oxygen from molecular oxygen O2 to the substrate, that catalyze reactions in which O2 is introduced into an acceptor molecule.
3β-oxidation is the central metabolic pathway for the utilization of fatty acids from lipids in which two-carbon units are sequentially removed from the molecule with each turn of the cycle, resulting in the formation of acetate which enters the tricarboxylic acid cycle by which alkanes, oils, fats, hydrocarbons, and other wastes are broken down and metabolized so that they can be used as a source of energy in aerobic respiration.
(Aromatic hydrocarbon rings generally are hydroxylated to form diols; the rings are then cleaved with the formation of catechols which are subsequently degraded to intermediates of the tricarboxylic acid cycle.)
4Fungi and bacteria form intermediates with differing stereochemistries. Fungi, like mammalian enzyme systems, form trans-diols, whereas bacteria almost always form cis-diols (many trans-diols are potent carcinogens whereas cis-diols are not biologically active). Since bacteria are the dominant hydrocarbon degraders, the biodegradation of aromatic hydrocarbons results in detoxification and does not produce potential carcinogens.
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