What the Remediator^® Grease Treatment System does to FOG
Fats are widely distributed in nature and are used for fuel, lubricants, and as the starting products for other compounds. The chemical structures of fats are quite complex due to the many combinations possible as fatty acid groups attached to glycerol “backbones.” Plant seed fats present up to 1,000 different fatty acid-glycerol combinations while animal fats may produce over 60,000. This helps explain why animal fats often are more difficult to degrade than vegetable fats.

Fats and oils assimilated within the biofilm are hydrolyzed by enzymes (biological catalysts) called lipases. Certain bacteria are capable of producing various lipases and are key to the bio-degradation processes. Once the fatty acids and glycerols have been separated, a host of other bacteria are ready to continue the catabolic process which leads to the oxidation of lipids into carbon dioxide and water.

The Remediator^® Culture
The bacteria used in the Remediator^®, we call Remediator^® Culture, are naturally occurring bacteria species. The bacteria adhere to the large surface area of the media both above and below the static water level of the Remediator^® Grease Treatment System. These micro-organisms form a controllable biological ecosystem called a biofilm. As the effluent surges into the Remediator^®, the fat, oil, and grease and other nutrients are brought into contact with the biofilm where the bacteria digests the waste, releasing carbon dioxide and water.

The Remediator^® Culture is totally nonpathogenic (does not cause infections) and is safe to humans. The bacteria that comprise Remediator^® Culture can be found in our digestive tracts, some are present in any tap-water source, one is present in the gut of a termite and some are found in soil.

The Remediator^® Culture multiply by cell division. Each ounce of Remediator^® Culture contains approximately 5.5 billion colony-forming units that develop and maintain a healthy biofilm in the media chamber. The bacteria multiply approximately 50,000 times in 24 hours, enabling rapid elimination of fat, oil, grease, sugar and starch. Individual cell life is approximately 20 minutes in free or planktonic state. However, cell life is extended somewhat in the protection of a biofilm, or in conditions of lower temperature or reduced food availability.

Remediator^® Culture is essential to maintaining population stability and diversity in the biofilm.

The benefits of bacteria and its use with the Remediator^®
Beneficial use of microorganisms such as yeast and bacteria touches virtually every aspect of our day to day lives. Perhaps the most common uses of bacteria are in the production of antibiotics, amino acids, citric acid and vitamins. These items are used by nearly everyone daily in one form or another as medicines, dietary supplements, flavorings and preservatives. These products and the products they enhance would not be possible without the use of beneficial organisms. Active use of micro-organisms is essential to brewing, dairy, baking, fruit and vegetable processing, sugar and starch production as well.

The most fundamental and most critical function of bacteria in our lives is at the very basis of life on the planet earth. The availability of the building blocks of life: carbon, nitrogen and oxygen is the direct result of bacterial action. Free atmospheric oxygen is the by-product of mineral eating stramatolytes; the nitrogen cycle which provides the majority of our atmosphere requires the activity of nitrifying and nitrogen releasing bacteria; carbon, the substance of all life on earth is recycled only by bacteria or fire.

People rarely know or appreciate the dependence of their very existence on the lowly bacteria.

The photo shows a portion of the 2,128 cells in the media (patent pending) on which the Remediator^® Culture bacteria affix themselves to form the biofilm. The configuration of cells is designed to create small vortices in the wastewater flow, causing the grease to rise to the surface. All separated and retained grease is digested from the waste stream.