Virotec Global Solutions is pleased to announce the release of a new environmental and waste treatment product called “ViroBac™”. ViroBac™ is a unique biological formulation designed to treat alkanic hydrocarbons in soil, water and industrial solids, and has been used by Virotec for the past two years in large-scale field trials and commercial applications. ViroBac™ joins the other 17 unique products in Virotec’s comprehensive suite of chemical reagents.
ViroBacTM has application in all four of Virotec’s environmental treatment technologies. For example, in ViroSoil Technology, ViroBacTM can be used with rapid sequestro-degradation (RSD) to treat hydrocarbon-contaminated soil, where petroleum, diesel, lubricants and other fugitive hydrocarbon wastes have entered the soil column due to poor industrial practices or by accident or leakage. The addition of ViroBacTM quickly destroys the hydrocarbon contaminants, achieving outstanding results in record time due to the unique properties of ViroBacTM. Where this process would take months or even years using conventional technology, RSD with ViroBacTM achieves the result in weeks.
Similarly, ViroBacTM can be used in ViroFlow Technology applications to destroy hydrocarbons in contaminated industrial sludges and wastewater. Ninety-five percent reductions or more of contaminants in a matter of weeks is not uncommon, and this is achieved via a safe, passive method of treatment with minimal human intervention.
Danial Blair, Virotec’s General Manager, stated “ViroBacTM is a unique formulation of heterotrophic microorganisms, essentially an inoculum of safe bacteria which devour the carbon in industrial hydrocarbons. The addition of ViroBacTM to contaminated soil, liquids and industrial solids, such as sludges and sediments, means that Virotec now has a viable way to quickly treat alkanic hydrocarbons.”
One of the most significant features of ViroBacTM, Mr Blair went on to explain, is that it works effectively in aerobic, anaerobic and facultative environments. This means that irrespective of whether the contaminant is in an environment which contains a lot of oxygen, such as in a liquid or wastewater, little oxygen or no oxygen at all, for example, deep within the ground, ViroBacTM will work equally well. “These remarkable features of ViroBacTM make it a valuable addition to our arsenal of chemical and biological reagents, and we are looking forward to applying the reagent in many more industrial applications,” stated Mr Blair.
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