Patent ID: 7879593

Claim:
A method of reducing pollutants in wastewater at a wastewater treatment plant, the method being performed on-site at the wastewater treatment plant and comprising the steps of: providing an on-site system for growing of microbes at the wastewater treatment plant, the on-site system comprising: a main tank, an input for water, an output for a treatment batch, a mixing apparatus, and a temperature control apparatus; depositing nutrient, water and an inoculum comprising microbes into the on-site system; growing the inoculum in the on-site system to provide a treatment batch comprising an increased number of the microbes; and directly applying at least a portion of the treatment batch, said portion containing microbes, to the polluted wastewater, such that the microbes are not isolated, concentrated or freeze dried between the steps of growing and applying, and wherein the microbes reduce the pollutants in the wastewater as measured by at least one of biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, total organic carbon, or total carbon.