Vermifiltration is a powerhouse for efficient, odour-free wastewater treatment and Biolytix enhances this with additional aeration to achieve excellent waste breakdown to a Council-approved Secondary Treatment level.
Employing nature to do the work, the Biolytix BioPod is engineered to meet the needs of billions of hard-working organisms that treat your wastewater. Providing a stable environment, food as they would naturally find it, and an abundance of oxygen. With these ideal conditions the biolytic organisms concentrate on what they do best; continually processing solids waste for free.
When the raw sewage arrives in the Biolytix tank the Tiger Worms, Eisenia Fetida, get to work quickly. They are one of the strongest creatures for their bodyweight, and continually break up the sewage, creating millions of aerated channels. These are the ideal conditions for other organisms to move into, and together they complete the decomposition process. They quickly turn the sewage into humus. The wastewater is then cleansed as it trickles through the many channels in the humus.
The Biolytix worms have helped turn the problem – the solid sewage, into the solution - the humus to cleanse the wastewater.
And do feel free to go on holiday and the worms will hibernate. They eat little and don’t breed. Then when you are back they rejuvenate, replenishing themselves at the rate they are needed. They can also handle extended family and extra visitors – the worms party as well, making the most of the banquet!
The BioPod is contained in a single lightweight injection moulded polypropylene tank. It is the most compact biological wastewater treatment process in the world making it easier to transport and less disruptive to install.
Because of the relative lack of mechanical components in the filter bed the BioPod only needs one annual service. Near the bottom of the tank is a geofabric layer, which removes any residual fine solids larger than 80-micron size. This purified and filtered water is then ready to be pumped into the garden for further polishing and where it can be utilised as a beneficial irrigation resource.
In the middle of the treated wastewater compartment is the disposal pump which operates on-demand (typically less than 30 minutes per day) to dispenses treated effluent from the BioPod out to the irrigation system. The disposal pump is powerful enough to pump more than 50m vertically which allows even the most topographically challenging sites to be irrigated.
Enjoy the peace of your backyard with a system that blends in harmoniously, with no septic smell and no loud pump noise.
A major advantage of the BioPod is that it is not reliant on complex or expensive machinery to run. It has a minute, whisper quiet but robust, low energy and low volume air pump which ensures the ambient air in the BioPod is constantly refreshed providing an abundance of available oxygen supply for the aerobic organisms that do all the work in the filter. It blower only consumes 0.12 kWhours per day (approximately 3 cents per day) which is extremely low compared to other conventional aerated wastewater systems, which typically consume 10 to 20 times this. In addition to this, the air pump is whisper quiet. We have field and factory tested installed BioPod and recorded maximum noise of less than 40dB from a distance of just 1m. By comparison, the blowers used on aerated wastewater systems can be very noisy and can operate 24 hours a day.
The BioPod is extremely reliable but has an audible and visual alarm installed to let you know of any irregularities within the system.
