Biofilter™ - Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Clean Up Solution That Wasn't Used

• published: 13 Jun 2015
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This video shows how the Biofilter™ was tested at the Gulf of Mexico, Deepwater Horizon, Oil Spill Disaster but despite its effectiveness and evironmental friendliness it was still rejected as a solution and instead chemicals were used. Why should have the Biofilter™ been used as a "Oil Spill" clean up solution? Biofilter™ is a biotechnological method for cleaning industrial, sewage and oil pollutions in water. With advanced absorption properties, unique fabric fibers, and proliferating microbes. Biofilter™ is technologically superior to simple sorbent booms. Contaminated oil residue and tarballs get converted into water and carbon elements already naturally present in the environment, making the process environmentally safe. How it works! Biofilter™ acts as a boom equipped with interchanging sorbent fibers 3 – 10 feet in length with varying densities. The fabric fibers are saturated with indigenous microbes already found in the aquatic ecosystem that begins a biogenic process rapidly breaking down oil and petrochemicals upon contact. As the oil is wicked up the fibers, a stable, oxygen-rich environment is created for the microbes to proliferate. The microbes consume the oil, breaking down into water, carbon dioxide and fatty acids (a water soluble food for plants and fish). Four ways to apply the Biofilter™: - Float in contained pools of oil-contaminated water. - Attached to anchored barrier points in rows directly off the beach at a depth of about 3 – 10 feet. - Secured to stationary buoys or slow-moving boats in swamp areas dense with vegetation. - Placed on the beach to absorb oil from contaminated sand and water Results. Biofilter™ has been reducing the concentration of film-forming petrochemicals in waterways in other parts of the world for the past ten years. One mile of Biofilter™ absorbs an average of 200 barrels of oil per hour. Added to Biofilter™, microbes continually work to break down oil. Biofilter™ - Safe | Effective | Proven Easily implemented, non-damaging to the aquatic ecosystem, reusable and recyclable. - Fiber - Strands range between one to ten feet in length and designed to absorb crude oil, petrochemicals, tarballs and oil residue. BiofilterTM can be pulled through marshlands with little interference. - Biofilter™ - Section widths vary from three to 90 feet and absorb over 200 barrels of waste per hour per mile. - Microbes - Microbes added to BiofilterTM convert contaminated oil residue and tarballs into water and carbon elements already naturally present, making the BiofilterTM environmentally safe. The microbes are contained in a fine powder that can be applied to the fibers prior to deploying the BiofilterTM in the water and then reapplied while in the water. Microbes are approved by the EPA and listed on the U.S. EPA National Contingency Product Plan Schedule. - Floatation - Recycled two and four liter plastic bottle are used to guarantee the BiofilterTM stays afloat. Buoys and anchors are attached providing flexibility for the BiofilterTM to move with the tide and wave action while securely staying in place. - Reusable/Recyclable - • Up to eight applications • Upon final use, Biofilter™ can be introduced into the Pyrolytic Vessel and Tubular Reactors™, which meets California air emission standards, as it degrades biomass and organic waste materials into useable carbon-based by-products. For more information about Biofilter email biologicalfilters@gmail.com Biofilter video - https://youtu.be/MEs1tPQcCpI. Please watch, like, comment and share Biofilter channel - http://goo.gl/EYxdcI. Please subscribe to our channel and help us make more aware the environmental and financial benefits of the Biofilter™ To learn more about biological filters go to Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofilter