More Than Just Liquid Sugar
High-strength food waste shouldn't eat your margins.
CASE STUDY: Commercial Cereal Manufacturer (Georgia)
12,400 ppm COD. That is the number that keeps Plant Managers awake at night.
For commercial cereal manufacturers, the wastewater stream is essentially liquid fuel—loaded with sugars, starches, and organics that send Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) sky-high.
We deployed the Ginseng Confidence Method for a major cereal producer in Georgia. They were dealing with a "biological soup" of high-strength effluent that conventional filtration couldn't stabilize. We didn't just guess at the solution. We proved it.
The Challenge: Processing an extremely heavy influent stream with 12,400 ppm COD. (For context, standard domestic sewage is ~500 ppm).
The Fix: A ruggedized Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) filtration test using our ceramic technology to handle the biomass without fouling.
For commercial cereal manufacturers, the wastewater stream is essentially liquid fuel—loaded with sugars, starches, and organics that send Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) sky-high.
We deployed the Ginseng Confidence Method for a major cereal producer in Georgia. They were dealing with a "biological soup" of high-strength effluent that conventional filtration couldn't stabilize. We didn't just guess at the solution. We proved it.
The Challenge: Processing an extremely heavy influent stream with 12,400 ppm COD. (For context, standard domestic sewage is ~500 ppm).
The Fix: A ruggedized Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) filtration test using our ceramic technology to handle the biomass without fouling.
Before
12,400 ppm COD
(Ammonia 7.90)
After
200 ppm COD
(Ammonia 0.11)
| Before | After | |
|---|---|---|
| COD | 12,400 ppm | 200 ppm |
| Ammonia (NH3-N) | 7.90 mg/L | 0.11 mg/L (98% Removal) |
| Phosphorus | 37.6 mg/L | 4.97 mg/L (86% Removal) |