High-concentrate soluble pouch
SediLogic Maintain Concentrate
SediLogic Maintain, concentrated. The same water-soluble pouch aimed at the water column, built to roughly ten times the standard concentration — so a large lagoon's programme arrives in a fraction of the pails to ship, store and handle.
01Why this format
General organic load on large systems
On a big system a standard-strength programme runs to a lot of pails, and most of that weight is carrier rather than organisms. A concentrate delivers the same organisms in far less material. That is a freight-and-handling saving, not a stronger product: the lagoon still responds only to its volatile fraction, and that ceiling does not move with concentration. It does the water-column job — for an established benthic blanket the dense sinking solid is still the tool, at any concentration. Because it earns its place on volume, a concentrate order is confirmed with a person rather than sized in the planner.
It works in the water column, and it suits a large lagoon where standard pouch counts get unwieldy.
02Specifications
What is confirmed, and what is not.
Every figure below comes from a manufacturer document or it is marked as outstanding. Nothing here is estimated to fill a gap — a placeholder specification that later moves is worse than an admitted blank, because a buyer may have planned around it.
- Pack weight
- 25 lb
- Pack price
- $4,712Indicative. A distributor-list basis (about twice the wholesale list), not a manufacturer specification — landed cost and freight are not yet confirmed, so the figure you are quoted may differ.
- Dose rate
- Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer method for the concentrated blend, wired into the planner. Until then a concentrate order is sized on review — the planner sizes the standard formats and a person switches a large-system order to the concentrate.
- Storage
- Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer technical data sheet
- Safety Data Sheet
- Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer SDS in OSHA HazCom / GHS format
- Technical Data Sheet
- Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer technical data sheet
- Product label
- Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Label artwork and legal review
03When not to buy this
Three situations where this product is the wrong answer.
- The system is small enough that standard Maintain pouches are already a manageable pail count. The concentrate earns its place on volume; below that it is simply a larger unit to buy.
- 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 dosing planner screens for all three and will say so rather than routing you to a quotation.
04Microbiology
What the organisms actually do to the material.
The mechanism is enzymatic hydrolysis. Bacillus species secrete enzymes into their surroundings that break large organic molecules into fragments small enough to be taken up and metabolised. The organisms are not consuming sludge directly; they are releasing the tools that take it apart.
| 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. |
Why Bacillus, and why a dry format costs nothing
Bacillus is the single most important bacterial source of exactly these enzymes, proteases in particular. It also forms endospores — a dormant state that survives drying, heat and time essentially intact, then germinates on contact with water and food. For this job the organisms that do the work are precisely the ones that dry best, which is why the two lead formats are dry and why that costs nothing biologically. Nitrifying organisms are the opposite case: they do not survive drying at all, which is why no dry product can address an ammonia permit.
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.
These figures are the mechanism, not a claim about this product: the peer-reviewed enzyme and hydrolysis work they rest on is collected in the scientific literature.
05Microbiological specification
The figures, and what each one is measured against.
None of these is confirmed yet, and each says what has to arrive before it can be published. A specification with its basis named and its value outstanding is more use to an operator than a number with neither.
- Viable count at manufacture
- Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer certificate of analysis and technical data sheet
- Guaranteed count at end of shelf life
- Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer guarantee in writing. Ask for this explicitly — most will quote only the count at manufacture
- Strains in the blend
- Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer technical data sheet
- Operating temperature range
- Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer technical data sheet
- Operating pH range
- Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer technical data sheet
- Biosafety level
- Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Written confirmation that every organism in the blend is Biosafety Level 1
- Shelf life
- Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer technical data sheet