Patent ID: 6245552
Filing Date: 2001-06-12
Classification: C02F,C12N,C12P,C12R

Abstract:
A method for treating an organic industrial waste to degrade the waste, which comprises:(a) providing dried cells of a microorganism which is anaerobic and can degrade the waste admixed with a dried growth medium for the microorganism containing an alkali metal nitrate in an amount between about 15 and 45 percent by weight of the growth medium in a sealed container with folds which collapses the container for shipment of multiple containers in a single box and with a closeable opening on the container, wherein the folds are horizontally opposite each other;(b) shipping the collapsed container near a site where the microorganism is to be introduced into the waste;(c) providing the collapsed container in a containment means so that the folds are below the closeable opening and the folds engage the containment means as the container is filled;(d) filling the container through the opening with water so as to unfold the container and to form a liquid growth medium from the dried growth medium admixed with the microorganism;(e) holding the microorganism in the liquid growth medium in the container for a period of time of up to about 32 hours and at a temperature so that the microorganisms grow and increase in cell number and wherein the alkali metal nitrate and the microorganism inhibit any contaminant microorganisms in the liquid growth medium; and(f) adding the microorganism along with the liquid growth medium to the industrial waste in a treatment plant, a lagoon, a tank or a soil, wherein the waste is degraded.