General
Chemical Water Treatment Survey Forms
Revised cooling tower and boiler water treatment survey
forms are now online. We also intend to add the Water Treatment Service
Report and the Plant Control Test Log in the next few months,
at which time, we will include all of the chemical forms in a frame, to
make them easier to access.
Polymer Articles Posted to Alken-Murray Website
We have posted a frame which includes polymer dilution
and testing procedures, an overview of polymer applications, and a product
bulletin for Alken® Solutions A3040L. You can also link to
the new frame from our Industrial Wastewater page.
MSDS are posted at Alken-Murray the Website
The following MSDS are now posted at the Alken-Murray
Website: Treatment 52, 62, 63, Disperse 327, 328, and 332, Scaloff 463,
Alkalinity Builder 479, Treatment J-666, 670 and 674, NPC 767 and 777, HSN
826, 860 Demulsifier, Citrus Degreaser 872, Even-Flo 905, 910, 910E, and
910S, Clear-Flo 1000, 1001, 1100, 1200, 1400, 4000, 4002, 4003, 4100, 7000,
7001, 7002, 7004, 7005, 7008, 7014, 7015, 7020, 7026, and 7110, Enz-Odor
- Original, 2, 4, 5, and 6, Treat-A-Loo, Bio-Nutrient 3 (dry) and Solutions
A3040L. Coming soon are: Clear-Flo 1002, DRSD 886, LRSD 890, PDE 903 and
Even-Flo 905. Attention Distributors and Clients: If you
want us to post additional MSDS, just let us know, and we will comply as
quickly as possible.
Nobody Found the Hidden Link to the "Out-of-Place"
Pink Elephant for a 10% Discount
OK, hint #2 - a character in a famous movie, with
the same name, recited this line "There is no place like home!"
while clicking the heels of her ruby slippers. If you can't find her any
other way, enter this character's name in our search engine. Remember -
the first person to find her, gets 10% extra discount on their NEXT order!
Bulletin Board Flopped, so Now We Have a "Guest
Book"
Sign in if you like, let us know what you think of
our Website. If nobody comments in the next month, I will remove it too.
We are just experimenting with communication media, but it seems that you
prefer e-mail communication.
Remember the Website Search Engine!
Since your editor has a habit of changing things around
on the Alken-Murray Website (we would not want anyone to get bored), please
remember to try the search engine to find anything. If that fails, e-mail
Valerie and ask for the address of the file. (Except, don't bother asking
for the location of the pink elephant. You have to find her yourself!)
Alken Clear-Flo®
Technical Updates
Major Warning of The Season
Do not
backwash your swimming pool full of chlorine into your lake/pond!! You will
end up making Alken-Murray rich by having to reseed your pond with bacteria
over and over. Chlorine is one of the most potent BIOCIDES in existence.
Even Alken-Murray's powerful bacteria cannot stand up to it.
Escherichia hermannii Removed from Some Alken Clear-Flo® Products
We have replaced E. hermannii, our obligate
aerobic strain of hydrogen sulfide degrader, with P. putida 479,
since E. hermannii was not as stable.
Product Upgrades -Minor
The following products have minor upgrades to their
strain combinations: CF 1200, 4000, 4100, 4003, 4103, 7000, 7100, 7015
and Enz-Odor 2 & 5. The new strains are substitutes for less
stable ones, so shelf-life should improve. Distributors who have signed
confidentiality agreements may request updated information.
Product Upgrade - Major
We have totally redesigned Alken Clear-Flo®
7002 and 7004, utilizing some exciting new strains. Distributors
who have signed confidentiality agreements may request updated information.
So, You Think Someone Illegally Dumped Crude
Oil in Your Pond!
There is always a small possibility that you are correct.
On the other hand, there is a very interesting strain of algae, known as
Botryococcus braunii, a chlorophyte order of Chlorococcales.
This strain produces C34 hydrocarbons with characteristics similar to crude
petroleum. When it blooms, this alga appears as a slimy bright green
scum on the surface of the water. This species became extensive
in one of the Central Park water bodies in 1992, following a severe thunderstorm,
which disturbed nutrients buried in the sediment and brought large quantities
of storm-water run off into the water bodies. The hydrocarbon degrading
strains in CF 1001 therefore prove to be protective
of the water quality when this species is present.
Central Park Algae Control Study Report Updated
A freshly edited copy of the Central Park Algae Control
Study Report, including comparisons between doses actually used in 1992
and doses that would be prescribed in 1999, with improved formulations is
now available. The new program would cost less than 35% of the old program,
which is a savings of more than 60%! Contact us for your copy of the updated
report today.
SUPER SALE!! Alken Clear-Flo® 7004 & 7002
We have a single 25 lb. pail of each formula left
that were made before we reformulated these two products. These pails are
available at a 60% DISCOUNT!! The count is good, the performance
is good (not as good as the new formula, obviously) and it still has one
year of full-count shelf-life remaining, then another year after that with
reduced count. If you need detergents or phenol degraded, this is your lucky
day!
AQUACULTURISTS:
Having Trouble Finding a Suitable Testing Facility for Saltwater?
If you need to have seawater or other high
salt content water analyzed, ENC Laboratories is a Website that
you should bookmark.
Alken Clear-Flo®
Competitor Comparisons
BACTA-PUR - (prices and dosages
listed on Website of Aquatic Eco-Systems, Inc.)
Bacta-Pur requires a grow-out tank, just like Probiotics and a few others,
but they have not figured out how to stabilize a formula with nutrients
IN it, so the preparation is both time-consuming and complicated. Although
these products claim to contain a count of 100 billion
CFU/ml, the dosages required make this seem highly unlikely, unless of course
they are simply the wrong strains for the job or a large percentage do not
reactivate. To best compare their system with Alken Clear-Flo®,
we will pretend to treat a 34,000 gallon pond, which is 4 times what they
consider large, and Alken-Murray classifies as tiny.
The directions given for applying Bacta-Pur
products to A "Large Pond" - INITIAL TREATMENT: For every 8,500
gallons, mix 34 oz of Bacta-Pur XLG
with 1 pouch of Accelerator and 1 pouch
of Bacta-Pur Nutrients with
5 gallons of system water and aerate for 24 hours at 86 degrees F. Then
add 34 oz. Bacta-Pur N3000 + 2.2 lbs. of
Carrier (ground oyster shells to "soak up" the
bacteria). Stir and aerate for 30 minutes. Then spray or add to aeration
mixing points.
For 34,000 gallons, you need
4 liters of BP XLG for $33.30 + 4 pouches of BP
Nutrients for $75.40 + 4 pouches of BP Accelerator
for $75.40 + 4 liters of BP N3000 for $33.40 +
9 lbs. BP Carrier for $12.36 (prorated out of
55 lb. drum). Total cost of INITIAL treatment is $229.76. Bacta-Pur
then prescribes a DAILY follow-up for 3 weeks with 2 liters of BP
N3000 ($13.25)+ 2 pouches of BP Nutrients
($37.70) + 4.4 lbs. of BP Carrier ($6.18) = $57.13
x 7 =$399.91 per week x 3 = $1,199.73 + 229.76 = $1,429.49 for the
first month to treat 34,000 gallons of pond water.
MAINTENANCE = $114.26 per week thereafter. Total cost
for 5 months of treatment = $3,257.65
COMPARE WITH:
Alken Clear-Flo® 1200 - First, follow our dosage charts to obtain the right dosage.
Then mix 1 oz of dry custom-prescribed supplement (included at no charge)
with each gallon of liquid product and 1 gallon of pond water. Allow to
hydrate for anywhere from 30 minutes to a couple of hours. Strain off the
bran if you wish to apply by spray application, or just dump the pail of
mixed treatment into your pond, preferably at aeration points. You cannot
go wrong, as this product and its supplement can work ALONE, straight out
of the pail. The supplement works better with pre-acclimation, but both
products perform creditably without it. For 34,000 gallons
of water, apply 16 oz of liquid for the initial application. Once a week
for three weeks, apply 8 oz of liquid. Maintenance requires 4 oz per week,
unless there is an exceptional influent from a severe storm, or severe runoff
or someone back washes a swimming pool into the pond. 1 x 5 gallon pail
will be more than adequate to treat 34,000 gallons for more than 5 months,
even if high phosphate levels require double the dosage.
Conclusion: Bacta-Pur's
Treatment for five
months is more than 23 TIMES as expensive as Alken Clear-Flo 1200 and significantly more
complicated and time consuming to apply. The
treatment cost differential is even higher when truly large water bodies
(above 40 acre-ft) are considered because Alken-Murray can offer other treatment
options and quantity discounts to augment the increased efficiency of application
to larger water bodies, which usually have lower flow-through than the smaller
applications. Of course, when you consider the value of your time, the extra
hassle preparing the Bacta-Pur increases
the cost. Some people may be fooled by the CLAIM of high count and believe
that a complicated procedure means the product is "more professional",
but we hope that people will compare the TOTAL cost of a treatment program,
and the results obtained.
Alken® Fuel Treatments - Technical Updates
Alken 944 Dosage Mistake on Product Information
Bulletin
The dosage listing of 3.13 to 5.21 gallons per 1,000
gallons was an incorrect interpretation of 0.3 -0.5 lbs. per 1000 gallons.
The correct number of gallons per 1,000 gallons is 0.0313 to 0.0521 gallons. |