Elimination of Unpleasant Odors from Sugar Beet Pulp

EM1 AROUND THE WORLD: Lithuania

Mr. Audrius Galinis from the Lithuanian company Loba, who distributes EM•1® in Lithuania, has reported his own experience applying EM Technology™.

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In 2009, a sugar factory accumulated a large amount of unused sugar beet pulp placed in a pit of the sugar factory complex in the city center of Marijampole city.

In spring 2010 the residents were annoyed to find the stench caused by the sugar beet pulp pit. Due to the hot summer in 2010, the residents of Marijampole appealed to the Lithuanian Environmental Protection Ministry to solve this serious odor problem. 

Therefore, the sugar factory decided to suppress the odor with quicklime, but it did not help. In autumn 2010 the sugar factory's management contacted Loba, the Lithuanian EM distributor. Loba inspected the sugar beet pulp pit to ensure that EM Technology™ will be capable to remove the unpleasant odors with no hassle. However, Loba had to guarantee the sugar factory that EM™ would be effective so they proposed to do some tests. The test results were satisfactory not only for the sugar factory but also for the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

Because of the testing took time till late autumn, when temperatures dropped below 0°C, the real odor removal operation had to be postponed until spring 2011. In spring, Loba sprayed EM™ products into three pits: a sugar beet pulp pit, a waste-water collection pit and a sludge pit. The result was positive and bad odors were totally removed.

Today, the sugar factory along with Loba carries out tests, to apply EM™ during the manufacturing process in order to reduce waste-water BOD and prevent bad odors.

Waste Water Treatment

EM1 AROUND THE WORLD: IRAN


An Industrial Park near Shiraz, Fars province in Iran was searching for an effective waste water treatment. EM Kanpazir, introduced and made a presentation of EM Technology™ to the department responsible of this industrial park environment and directors. 


This waste water site belongs to an industrial area where 738 companies are involved. 

The total area of the Industrial park covers 1337 ha and the company buildings occupies only 611 ha.
Thus, the responsible department plans to purify the waste water to use as watering and greening the vast free area.

Daily flow is 15000 m3 and EM Kanpazir furnished with 2500 L of Activated EM•1® for the pilot test.
Today, they use 180 L of Activated EM•1® per day for a term of two weeks. 

Even though 2500 L of Activated EM•1® was not enough for such a great quantity of waste water, they obtained good results. 

During these two weeks the EC has been reduced from 17000 to 13000.
And the water qualities changed from a brown colored liquid with a very bad odor to a transparent and better smell water.

EM Bokashi for Human Consumption

EM1 AROUND THE WORLD: Germany 

EMIKO Handelsgesellschaft mbH, has released the EM Bokashi for human consumption!

The edible EM Bokashi is a cereal with additional grains, herbs, fruits and nuts fermented by Effective Microorganisms.
Rich in lactic acid bacteria, it has a particularly sour taste.

How to consume:
Take 5-9 g of EMIKO SAN Granola plus 80g of cereal and serve with milk or fruit juice.

EMIKO SAN ® Plus granola 
cereal organic extra 

WATER PURIFICATION

Microorganisms have much to do with the process of water purification in nature. Even in the latest water purification technology such as the activated sludge process, microorganisms play a major role.

Self-purification power of water works well under the indigenous ecosystems functioning properly with a rich aquatic ecosystem pyramid .In polluted water with sludge accumulating at the bottom and foul odors, self-purification power decrease as the result of the dominance by putrefactive microorganisms. This leads to decrease of nutrition necessary for ecosystems to function and keep their purification.

Applied to polluted and putrefactive water, EM holds a dominant position in the layer of microorganisms and help ecosystems revive and reduce sludge and foul odors. The purpose of EM application is not to create apparently-clear water by chemical means but to revive the native function of aquatic ecosystem. In this sense, Depending on the overload of drainage and the volume of water, the amount and the frequency of Application of EM should be various.