CarboNet chemistry cuts PAM by 80% and cost-to-treat by 50%, ensuring landfills don’t breach their permit—or balance sheet.
Leachate is a zero-sum game: breach your permits and your landfill shuts down and operations grinds to a halt. It’s also a favourite of regulators who can easily track emissions from fixed address sites.
Why it matters: Landfill operators have historically relied on commodity chemicals, wonky make-down equipment, and untrained crew to handle leachate treatment. But that hand can easily fold when staff—hampered by having to babysit make-down rigs—overdose PAM or create accidental leaks that push emission levels over the top.
CarboNet’s SimpleFloc dramatically reduces the risk of breaches—even as it simplifies operations and reduces your costs.
The bottom line: Water insecurity is changing regulations, permits, and emission limits. Commodity chemicals like polyacrylamide (PAM)—created 70 years ago for a different era of water treatment and rapidly aging out—aren’t up for the task at hand.
An energy company faced stiff fines for breaching arsenic levels in their landfill leachate and gas condensate wastewater.
The problem: Sludge regularly gummed up filters intended for heavy metals and similar particulates during wastewater treatment. The source? Inconsistent flocs due to polyacrylamide (PAM).
Behind the scenes: Looking to avoid regulatory exposure, the operator was spending $25k/month on filter replacements as they sought a permanent fix for the problem.
The solution arrived in the form of SimpleFloc, CarboNet’s no-make-down flocculant which, when combined with with ACH (aluminum chloride), and FeCl3 (ferric chloride), resulted in faster solid settlement, lower turbidity, and lower FOG measurements. The effect of this was: