What is MicroSorb Environmental Products, Inc.?

MicroSorb Environmental Products, Inc. was incorporated in 1996 to market a superior blend of naturally occurring, non hazardous, nonpathogenic microbes and microbe "enhancers" that are utilized to break down a wide assortment of organic materials. These materials include petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated compounds, and animal and vegetable wastes (fats, oils, and grease).

In order for MicroSorb microbes to live, multiply, and attack organic wastes, they must have available: water, reasonable temperatures (29°F - 130°F), and oxygen. The "enhancers" mentioned above are various products provided by MicroSorb products, which help our microbes access and utilize oxygen and water.

Advantages of MicroSorb Environmental Products

MicroSorb products are highly concentrated numbers of microbes housed in a bentonite clay matrix. Some of these products have as many as 100 billion microbes per gram - more than any other currently known microbial product. This allows for lower volumes of product to treat areas where the competition must provide large doses of product with inferior microbial counts (It takes about 1 million microbes per gram of hydrocarbons to begin the bioremediation process). In addition, MicroSorb microbial products have a broad variety of microbial species - capable of dealing with and destroying a large variety of contaminants.

MicroSorb products also have a long shelf life - up to five years. This permits easy shipment and lower costs compared to competitive products that often are in liquid form with limited shelf life and that often cost hundreds of dollars to ship.

MicroSorb Product Applications

The release to the environment of petroleum hydrocarbons and other organic wastes can require an expensive cleanup effort. In the past, most solutions called for digging out or pumping and treating contaminated media at huge costs to the owner. With most governmental regulations, the burden of clean up falls on the land-owner. This means that not only are industry and commercial property owners impacted, but residential properties and individuals as well. The use of microbes for treating contamination in place (in situ) at considerably lower costs therefore should be carefully considered in most contaminated site clean-up efforts.

What types of contamination can be treated with MicroSorb Environmental Products?

Listed below is a partial list of different products/contaminants that have been successfully treated with MicroSorb microbial products:

Acenapthene Alkylamine Oxides Animal Wastes Biphenyl Chlorinated Phenols Chloroform Cyanide Diethyleneglycol Fuel Oils #1-6 Hydraulic Oils Jet Fuels Lubricating Oils Methylene Chloride Napthalenes Oil Based Fluids Organic Pesticides Phenylureas Pulp By-Products Trichloroethylene Xylene

Acrolein Aromatics Brake Fluids Chloro Napthalene Crude Oil Dichlorobenzene Ethylbenzene Gasoline Heptane Kerosene Marine Fuels Monoalkylbenzenes Nitrated Phenols Oil Based Inks Pentane Phthalate Esters Secondary Alkylbenzene Sewage Varsol

Acrylonitrile Benzene Chlorobenzene Cutting Oils Diesel Fuels Fluoranthene Grease Hexane/Hexene Isoprene Long Chained Alkenes Mercaptan Motor Oils (not synthetic) Oil Based Paints Organic Herbicides Phenoxyacetates Polycyclic Aromatics Toluene Vegetable Oils

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