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Method

Technical decisions are made on measurements

Bioremediation works when the site is characterised before anything starts and the work is measured as it proceeds. What follows is the chain IEBCO has used on its executed projects: survey and sampling, process design, material supply, execution and monitoring.

Three culture plates with yellow bacterial colonies streaked on agar.
Microbial culture — the biological basis of hydrocarbon degradation.

Capability

What we can take on technically

This is the technical ground the company works across. How deep each activity goes on a given job follows the site conditions and the contracted scope.

  • Characterisation of hydrocarbon contamination
  • Site survey and sampling
  • Analysis of hydrocarbon contamination
  • Bioremediation process design
  • Development of biological materials and products
  • Performance monitoring of remediation operations
  • Design of petroleum waste management solutions
  • Carrying laboratory work into pilot and industrial execution

The chain

From site visit to monitoring

This sequence is the technical chain recorded in the documentation for the Samawah, Iraq project, and it is the one used on comparable work.

  1. Site visit

  2. Sampling

  3. Laboratory analysis

  4. Process design

  5. Material supply

  6. Field execution

  7. Technical monitoring

A large yellow process unit with an access walkway and stairs on the works area, a mobile compressor alongside it.
A process unit installed on the works area.
An excavator above an excavated cell filled with dark petroleum waste.
Petroleum waste placed into a treatment cell.
Saplings planted in rows across the restored works area.
Land restoration, after the treatment stages were complete.

On the Samawah project, TPH, PAH and elemental composition were examined in samples from the waste pit and the flare pit. Those data defined the state of the contamination and drove the plan for the operation — they describe the starting condition, not the outcome.

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What goes to site

The equipment and the biological agent are both ours

Executing on the client’s own site takes two things: equipment that can be moved to the location, and a biological agent supplied for the conditions of that particular job. Both belong to the company — neither has to be bought in from a third party.

The portable petroleum waste treatment package mounted on a trailer: blue process vessels and a control cabin, coupled to a tractor unit and ready to move to site.
The portable package on its trailer, ready to move to site. Portable Oil Waste Recovery & Bioremediation Package
Biological material tipped from an excavator bucket onto excavated waste, beside stacked jumbo bags.
Material supplied and applied on site — Samawah, Iraq project. Hydrocarbon-degrading microbial product
Product and equipment detail

Our own facilities

IEBCO’s portable laboratory

The company keeps a portable laboratory that can be set up close to where the work is happening. Its job is to support part of the field assessment and monitoring, so the gap between taking a sample and making a decision on site stays short.

  • Set up near the operation, not days away from it
  • Supports part of the initial assessment and the periodic monitoring
  • Shortens the distance between sampling and an execution decision
A technician at a microscope in the portable laboratory, alongside bench-top analytical instruments.
The company’s portable laboratory.
A technician working at a laptop in a site monitoring cabin, beside a bench-top analytical instrument.
Laboratory monitoring on location, Samawah, Iraq project.

Analytical methods on the project

What was used on the job, not what we own

The documentation for the Samawah, Iraq project records these analytical methods. They are kept apart from the company’s own facilities because that is exactly what they are: analytical methods used on one project.

  • ICP-MS

    Elemental analysis of the samples

  • GC-MS

    Determination of TPH and PAH

This is not IEBCO-owned instrumentation and must not be read as the company’s laboratory facilities. The source records only that these analytical methods were used on this project.

Technology development

From the laboratory to industrial production

Development here is only finished when the material leaves the laboratory and is consumed on a real job. The records below are points on that path: industrial production of the microbial powder, and BioOSD’s development from laboratory and semi-industrial samples to its first sale.

  1. Developed in the laboratory

    Isolation and culture of hydrocarbon-degrading strains, and formulation of the product.

  2. Produced at industrial scale

    Taking the product from a sample to production in the volumes remediation work needs.

  3. Applied on a project

    The material consumed in field operations, with the fall in contamination monitored on the same site.

  • Recorded contract

    01/03/1402 – 1403

    بومی‌سازی دانش فنی و تولید ماده بیولوژیک امحاءکننده لکه‌های نفتی دریایی BIO OSD

  • Recorded contract

    1395 – 1396

    توسعه دانش فنی و تولید ماده امحاء‌کننده لکه نفتی با پایه بیولوژیکی (Bio-OSD)، فاز دوم: تولید محصول نیمه‌صنعتی

  • Recorded contract

    1394 – 1395

    توسعه دانش فنی و تولید ماده امحاء کننده لکه نفتی با پایه بیولوژیکی فاز اول: تولید نمونه آزمایشگاهی

  • Recorded contract

    1394

    تجاری‌سازی و تولید صنعتی پودر میکروبی تجزیه‌کننده آلودگی نفتی

One further technology-development record exists in the company’s sources whose relationship to the current products is not yet confirmed. It is not published here until it is.

The BioOSD product page See the products

Technical review

Send us the site conditions and we will look at the method

The type of contamination, the approximate volume of waste and any initial sampling results are enough to define the assessment.

Contact the technical team See the products