 Advantages of EcoClean and EcoClean-M |
| 1. Effective in a wide range of sites |
| Till date, EcoClean and EcoClean-M have been applied on more than 60 sites in Japan and overseas. The unique combination of microbial nutrients in these products stimulates a wide range of microorganisms. Therefore we do not depend on presence, or absence of specific microbes such as Dehalococcoides. EcoClean has been successfully applied to remediate at least 3 sites in Japan where Dehalococcoides was not detected. |
| 2. Cost effective and ease of application |
| EcoClean and EcoClean-M are completely water-soluble and therefore can be injected subsurface under gravity using simple mixing pump and tank. Under ideal hydrogeological conditions these biostimulants can propagate for more than 10-15 m in the groundwater. Therefore these are widely accepted by clients to apply at active manufacturing facilities. These can be applied through wells located 10-20 m apart at these facilities without disrupting the day today manufacturing activities. The application does not need the use of heavy machineries. |
| 3. Short remediation time |
| The
time taken for remediation depends on several factors such
as hydrogeology, contamination concentration and distribution,
presence of co-contaminants
etc. In general results of contamination degradation can be
obtained within 2-4 months of EcoClean or EcoClean-M application
on most of
the sites. As compared to traditional techniques such as "pump
and treat" which takes more than a decade to completely clean
a site,
EcoClean or EcoClean-M can perform the same job in a matter
of months. That would save huge operation and maintenance cost.
Please refer
to the field results for more details. |
| 4. Degrading high concentration |
| We have successfully cleaned several sites containing contamination of tens of mg/L order within a span of few months, which, in general, are thought to be difficult to degrade by bioremediation within such a in short time. Till date, the highest concentration of contamination completely degraded with EcoClean is 380mg/L of TCE and 120mg/L of C-DCE. At many sites, we have witnessed that the application of EcoClean dissolves the sorbed phase of contamination and thereby helps increase the bio-availability of contaminants for complete microbial degradation. |
| 5. Ultra-Low energy requirement |
| Unlike many other technologies such as "pump and treat", soil vapor extraction EcoClean or EcoClean-M based bioremediation takes a small amount of fuel/electricity. At many sites simple mixing pump and gravity feed injection is practiced. |
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