SediLogic Maintain Concentrate — soluble pouch

01Why this format

General organic load on large systems

Maintain Concentrate reduces the amount of carrier shipped with the organisms. It serves the same water-column application and does not change how much of the sludge is treatable. A settled bottom blanket still calls for a sinking solid. We confirm concentrate quantities during review.

It works in the water column, and it suits a large lagoon where standard pouch counts get unwieldy.

02Specifications

Product specifications and documents

The specifications below come from product documents. If a document does not provide a value, we mark it as unpublished.

Pack size: 25 lb pail containing 25 × 1 lb water-soluble pouches
Pack weight: 25 lb
Shipping weight: 27.21 lbCalculated gross shipping weight, including a 1 kg packaging allowance.
Pack price: $4,712Indicative. Freight, tax and the final price are settled in the reviewed quote.
Dose rate: Sized on review from the manufacturer's dosing method (rev. 2026-07-16) at one-tenth the standard Maintain mass. The planner identifies when a large-system programme merits the concentrate, then a person confirms the whole-pail quantity.The concentration changes the mass to ship and handle, not the dose of viable organisms delivered to the lagoon.
Storage: Store dry and cool, away from direct sunlight; keep the container tightly closed.A temperature-controlled storage range of 50–90°F is specified on the product documentation.

03When not to buy this

When to consider another approach

Standard Maintain already gives you a manageable number of pails. The concentrate is intended to simplify handling on larger programmes.
There is an established sludge blanket to knock down. A soluble pouch disperses through the water column, and reaching a blanket several feet down is the dense sinking solid's job — concentration does not change that.
An ammonia or nitrogen permit is the actual problem. Nitrifying bacteria do not survive drying, so no dry product, concentrated or not, can address nitrification.

The planner checks these conditions before calculating a quantity.

04Microbiology

How bacteria break down organic sludge

The mechanism is enzymatic hydrolysis. Bacillus species release enzymes that break large organic molecules into smaller, soluble fragments. Bacteria then take up and metabolise those fragments.

Enzyme classes produced by Bacillus and the material each acts on
Enzyme	Acts on	What that is, in a lagoon
Protease	Proteins and peptides	The protein fraction of settled influent solids and of dead biomass.
Lipase	Fats, oils and greases	FOG, which floats and consolidates rather than settling out on its own.
Amylase	Starches and complex carbohydrates	Carbohydrate load, typically heaviest on food-processing influent.
Cellulase	Cellulose	Plant fibre and paper, which is a large share of a municipal blanket.

Light micrograph of stained Bacillus: dark blue rod-shaped bacterial cells and short chains against a pale background. — Bacillus · stained light micrograph

Why Bacillus works in dry treatments

Bacillus produces these enzymes and forms spores that tolerate drying and storage. The spores germinate when conditions are suitable. This makes Bacillus useful in dry sludge treatments. These products are not intended to address an ammonia permit; that requires a separate assessment of nitrification.

What the published work supports

Mixtures of protease, cellulase and lipase reduce total suspended solids by 30 to 50 per cent and improve settling, with protease and cellulase together outperforming either alone. One controlled study reported 33 per cent volatile suspended solids reduction.

Peer-reviewedControlled studyEnzyme mechanism. Field efficacy figures in this category are measured by the seller rather than independently, ours included, and are labelled that way.

These studies explain the mechanism; they do not predict results from a SediLogic product. The research is collected in the scientific literature.

05Microbiological specification

Product specifications

These figures come from the product documents. Values that the documents do not provide are marked as unpublished.

Viable count at manufacture: 40 billion CFU/gA count published on the product sheet; no end-of-shelf-life guarantee is stated.
Guaranteed count at end of shelf life: Not publishedNo guaranteed viable count at the end of the stated shelf life is published for this product.
Strains in the blend: 7 Bacillus strains
Operating temperature range: Apply at 50°F or warmerAn application threshold taken from the product label, not a full tolerance range.
Operating pH range: Not publishedNo numerical operating pH range is published for this product.
Biosafety level: Not publishedThe product documentation describes the bacteria as non-pathogenic but publishes no Biosafety Level designation.
Shelf life: 24 months

The range

Other formats, and what each one is for

Choose the format according to where the material has accumulated and how you apply treatment. Sinking solids target settled bottom sludge. Soluble pouches and liquids disperse in the water column.

Same duty — Water column

Elsewhere in the range

What this product acts on

It digests organic solids. It reduces volatile solids, degrades fats, oils and grease as material, improves settling and reduces accumulated sludge depth where conditions permit.

It is not claimed to control algae, to kill or suppress pathogens, to disinfect or sanitise, to control odour-causing organisms as organisms, or to have any antimicrobial effect. Under US EPA guidance on determining whether a product is a pesticide under FIFRA, claims that a product cleans, reduces or removes sludge are not considered pesticidal. It acts on material, not on organisms.

Only the volatile organic fraction is treatable. Sand, grit, silt, mineral precipitates and plastics are not biodegradable and remain at any dose. Elimination of sludge is not an achievable outcome and is not claimed.

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