Appalachian Environmental has an extensive line of wastewater treatment chemical products. Utilizing our own chemical blending facilities, we manufacture our chemistries to the highest quality standards. We can meet your needs with customized formulations based on your specifications.
The industries we serve range from oil refining to power production and from steel production to paper converting. Our chemical products include biocides, odor control, bioaugmentation, coagulants and flocculants, defoamers, metal precipitants, and media for heavy metal removal.
Our company has experience in a wide range of fields. We have worked on projects with budgets in the tens of thousands to the millions, and our staff includes experts in hydraulics, chemistry, microbiology and mechanical engineering. We have the resources and knowledge needed to handle any problem you may have.
Coagulation & Flocculation
Effective coagulation and flocculation are foundational to wastewater treatment. These processes involve the aggregation of fine particles into larger flocs, making them easier to separate from the water. Our range of products ensures efficient particle removal and water clarification:
- Aluminum Chloride & Aluminum Sulfate: These coagulants promote particle aggregation, facilitating the removal of suspended solids and contaminants from water.
- Aluminum Chlorohydrate (ACH): A concentrated solution that offers superior coagulation capabilities, especially in removing organic matter.
- Polyaluminum Chloride (PACL): A versatile coagulant that’s effective across a range of pH levels and water conditions.
- Ferric Chloride & Ferric Sulfate: These inorganic coagulants are particularly effective in removing suspended solids and organic matter.
- Inorganic / Organic Polymer Blends: These blends offer the dual benefits of enhanced flocculation and coagulation, ensuring clearer water output.
- Liquid Cationic Polymers: These polymers promote particle binding, ensuring efficient sedimentation in various wastewater conditions.
- Bentonite Clay: This natural clay aids in particle aggregation, enhancing sedimentation and clarity.
Solids Thickening & Dewatering
Managing solids effectively is key to efficient wastewater treatment. Our solutions focus on reducing the volume of sludge, making disposal more cost-effective:
- Dispersion Polymers: These polymers enhance solid dispersion, preventing premature settling and ensuring uniform sedimentation.
- Emulsion Polymers: These polymers aid in dewatering processes, ensuring that sludge is compact and easier to handle.
- Granule Polymers: Effective in solid-liquid separation, these polymers ensure that water is effectively removed from sludge.
- Microbead Polymers: These advanced polymers ensure efficient dewatering, leading to reduced disposal costs.
Heavy Metal Precipitants
Heavy metals in wastewater can have detrimental environmental impacts. Our solutions focus on effectively precipitating these metals, ensuring safe water discharge:
Polythiocarbonate: Effective in precipitating a range of heavy metals, ensuring they are removed from wastewater.
Sodium Sulfide: A widely-used precipitant that binds with heavy metals, facilitating their removal.
Sodium dimethldithiocarbamate (DTC): This chelating agent aids in the removal of metals, ensuring that wastewater meets regulatory standards.
Odor Control
Wastewater can often produce unpleasant odors. Our odor control solutions are designed to neutralize these odors, ensuring that wastewater treatment facilities remain pleasant for workers and neighboring communities.
Defoamers
Foam is a problem that can be encountered in many different industries, but it’s especially prevalent in industrial cooling towers. Anti-foams and defoamers are essentially the same chemicals made for the same purpose: to prevent the formation of foam. Anti-foams are used to prevent foam from occurring, while defoamers are used to treat a foam problem after it has occurred. Foam can cause defects on surface coatings, bacterial growth, deposit formation, and downtime and added costs for cleaning.
Anti-foams and defoamers work by reducing air bubbles in water and preventing their coalescence into larger bubbles. They do this by reducing surface tension between air and water molecules so that there is less opportunity for them to form large bubbles when they come into contact with each other.
Bacterial / Enzyme Digestants
Biological treatment is a cornerstone of modern wastewater treatment. Our range of bacterial and enzyme digestants enhance the breakdown of organic matter:
- Pro-Bio Series: Our Pro-Bio series offers a range of solutions, from premium digestants to odor eliminators. These products ensure rapid organic matter degradation, odor control, and overall enhanced wastewater treatment.
Chlorinators
Bio-Sanitizer
Bio-Sanitizer tablets are expertly designed to offer consistent and effective disinfection for water and wastewater treatment systems.
Bio-Max
Bio-Max dechlorination tablets provide a convenient to use source of concentrated sodium sulfite to instantly remove chlorine and chloramines from wastewater, potable water and process water.
Bio-Neutralizer
Bio-Neutralizer dechlorination tablets are formulated to effectively remove free and combined chlorine from water or wastewater treatment system flows.
Enviro-C
Enviro-C dechlorination tablets utilize the unique chemistry of Vitamin C to neutralize chlorine and chloramines from water, wastewater and process water applications.
Nitro-Buster
Nitro-Buster is a specialized mixture of bacteria designed to perform nitrification of ammonia nitrogen in residential and commercial wastewater treatment plants.
Bio-Gem
A blend of beneficial bacteria, enzymes and natural growth accelerators, Bio-Gem Grease Eliminating Microbes treat grease, fats and oils in wastewater treatment systems, lift stations, septic tanks, sand filters, drain lines and commercial grease traps.
Bio-Perc
Bio-Perc remediation products provide an efficient and cost-effective way to rejuvenate failing wastewater treatment systems by reducing or eliminating organic buildup in distribution lines and disposal processes.
Phos-4-Fade
Phos-4-Fade phosphorus removal tablets are the first product to be manufactured specifically to reduce phosphorus levels in wastewater, stormwater and process water.