Innovations
Biolytix® - The Multi-Award-Winning Sewage Treatment System
Cross Section of a typical Biolytix® System - BF6
The Biolytix® System is a robust, organic soil ecosystem that converts sewage, wastewater, sanitary items and food wastes into irrigation water. All the waste is simply fed onto the Biolytix® filter bed using standard plumbing.
The top layer is made up of coarse mesh bags with plastic media in them. This houses the wet soil ecosystem. It accommodates worms, beetles and billions of microscopic organisms. These soil creatures are vital "macerator" organisms, breaking up the organic material, converting the waste into humus and structuring it so that its drainage and air porosity are continually renewed and maintained indefinitely. The organic matter particles then wash through and accumulate on the surface of a finely structured humus and coco-peat layer.
Sewage entering the top section of the Biolytix® Filter
The middle layer: Here it is reprocessed again and again and structured into a sponge-like filter matrix by the soil organisms that live in it. They constantly renew its drainage and aeration pores. The fine structured compost has remarkable properties. It is 90% water by weight, yet has a high cation and anion exchange capacity. This means it adsorbs and holds back pollutants such as chemical compounds and toxins for the trillions of living organisms to digest over time. (Competing treatment processes don't have this ability.) It also has powerful odour - absorbing capacity, which is why we can guarantee no odours.
The last layer: After the last layer, the effluent has been well treated and a geofabric filter, the size of the diameter of the tank, filters out all particles larger than 90 micron. This three dimensional filter is biologically cleaned and does not need any maintenance. It protects the irrigation system from clogging up. The water component of the wastewater finally accumulates in the sump where some more of the very fine sediment is settled out in a quiescent zone before the clear, reclaimed water can be pumped or drained to irrigation or reuse.
The Smart Biolytix® Patent
Biolytix® has the patent to use the structured humus as the filter to cleanse the wastewater. This cleverly turns the problem (the waste) into the solution (the filter to cleanse the wastewater).
As the technology is fully aerobic it does not require an energy-intensive aquatic or odourous septic stage. The layered, flexible modular filter elements are designed to also be installed into a conventional septic tank unit, but are equally suited to be used within any vertical cylindrical tank (normally a minimum depth of approximately 1.5m is required).
Normally the filter is constructed within a standard 3000 litre polymer tank (1.88m diameter by 1.63m high). The only mechanical components in the standard treatment unit (BF6 system) are a single-phase industrial strength pump and a tiny but robust (5 watt) air pump.
The Biolytix® System can be scaled according to the wastewater loading.
To obtain further information on this exciting technology, please download this free brochure or go to www.biolytix.com.
