How to Choose a Wastewater Bacteria Culture for Your Treatment Plant
Match the culture to the target pollutant and the process — COD, ammonia, total nitrogen, anaerobic, or cold weather.
Technical support is the applied side of our work: how to choose, dose, store and troubleshoot the cultures, deodorisers and bio-based additives we supply. The guides below are written for plant operators and site technicians, not for a laboratory audience.
This page is an index, not another blog. For industry deep-reads see the Technical Blog; for peer-reviewed papers see Research. Here you will find the hands-on references our own engineers work from, grouped by the job you are trying to do.
Choosing the right culture or additive
Why We Blend Cultures Against Your Data Instead of Selling Catalogue Items
Why a fixed specification is rarely honest for industrial effluent, and the data we blend against.
How to Decide Whether Bio-Based Oilfield Additives Fit Your Well or Reservoir
A screening route for biosurfactants, MEOR and gas-well deliquification before you commit to a trial.
How to Choose a Biological Deodoriser for Sewage, Transfer Stations and Municipal Sanitation
Botanical versus biological, source suppression versus end-of-pipe, and matching the product to the odour chemistry.
Dosing, storage and handling
Dosing Bacteria at a Wastewater Plant: How Much, How Often, and How to Know It Worked
Turning a viable count on a label into a dose that moves your parameter, and how to confirm it worked.
Storing Wastewater Bacteria: What Determines Shelf Life and How to Keep a Culture Usable
What sets shelf life and how storage temperature and handling decide whether a culture still works when you open it.
Troubleshooting common operating problems
Bioaugmentation After a Treatment Plant Shock
Restoring biomass and nitrification after a toxic or hydraulic shock.
Running Wastewater Biology in Cold Weather
Why recovery slows in winter and what to do about ammonia and nitrification.
Microbial Corrosion in Oil and Gas Systems
Sulphate-reducing bacteria, reservoir souring and biofilm monitoring.
Odour and site operations
Hydrogen Sulphide in Sewer Systems and How to Control It
Where sulphide forms in a network and where to dose to suppress it.
Odour Control at Waste Transfer Stations: A Practical Guide
Source suppression, dosing points and coverage for a transfer-station floor.
Why Black Water Smells and How Biological Treatment Fixes It
The sulphide chemistry behind black-odorous water and the biological route that removes it.
Platform technologies
Bacteriophages: A Working Overview of the Biology and Where They Fit in Practice
What a phage is, host range, and where phage-based control fits alongside conventional cultures.
Engineered Phages: What a 2025 Review Says About Host Range and Targeted Delivery
How engineered phages are being developed as an antibiotic-alternative route in livestock and aquaculture.
Sophorolipid Biosurfactants in Oilfield Applications
Interfacial-tension reduction, mobility control and temperature tolerance of a fermentation-derived biosurfactant.
Problem not covered here?
Send your operating data — the parameter, the process and the symptom — and we will come back with a written assessment, including when the honest answer is that biology is not the right route.