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Filtering units for removing odor from plumbing vent pipes, most often referred to as stink pipes by plumbers, are the best solution age old problem of stink coming out of the plumbing/septic tank roof vent. The vent is design to release gas to the outside air so the waste water can flow down the drains. What are the differences between the various manufacturers? They are all similar in appearance with the outer shell made of PVC and ABS design. Sweetfilter was epoxy coated Black. Sweetfilter, VentPure, and Peacemaker show they are registered. Sweetstack has one way off and on valves and cannot be sold in Minnesota. OdorHog is now available with solar powered exhaust fan. Is that an added part to fail? VentPure and SweetAir units have rain cap because their chemical medias must be protected from moisture.

All chemical medias are a mixture of Carbon with other additives. You have to check the chemistry, or be a chemist, to see which is really the best chemical. What the home owner is looking for is a chemical media whose primary target is Hydrogen Sulfide. Hydrogen Sulfide produces that rotten egg odor that any home owner is familiar with if they have any type plumbing problem. The secondary problem is the Ammonia which produces the urine odor.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is only place to search to find if a design is patented or a brand name is registered. Only Sweetfilter is registered with The United States Patent and Trademark Office. There are no other sewer/septic tank odor eliminator vent filter units registered!

VentPure and Peacemaker were registered in individual States only. Any brand name that has a registered Trademark in a State only, can be copied in another State. In Federal Court you cannot protect your brand name unless you have registered it in The United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Sweetstack, OdorHog, VentPure, Peacemaker, and SweetAir filtering units are made primarily with the common chemical mixtures for removing odor from plumbing vent pipes and can never get a Federal Registration. Sweetstack and SweetAir have Sweet in their name. Sweetfilter is registered, Sweetstack and SweetAir cannot be registered in The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

What unit is best? What unit should you the home owner purchase to install? Sweetfilter, Sweetstack, OdorHog, VentPure, Peacemaker, and SweetAir are all similar, but are all different, only you the home owner can make the finial decision. You want your filter to operate like a odor eliminator on your roof top vent, most often referred to as a stink pipe, You want the smell to be gone!

Joe Kessler
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Bacteria is what enables wastewater to be treated and safely disposed of. This applies to home septic systems as well as municipal sewage treatment plants.

The treatment difference between the two systems is the amounts of bacteria involved. A home septic system uses the same three types of bacteria aerobic, facultative, and obligate anaerobic. Aerobic bacteria require oxygen induced compressed air and are more aggressive than anaerobic bacteria, which live off non-oxygen containing food. Typically there are very few aerobic bacteria in your septic tank. A septic tank itself does not have a pure oxygen supply. Facultative bacteria also need oxygen. It can use either molecular (dissolved) oxygen or oxygen obtained from food material or sulfates or nitrates ions from wastewater and other sources. This is what produces the ‘rotten egg odor, ‘ also known as hydrogen sulfide gas (H2S)

The problem with anaerobic bacteria is that they leave the septic tank and go into the leach field bed of the septic system. The anaerobic bacteria continue to feed on the non-oxygen containing unfiltered foods in the wastewater. In the process, they eventually build up a thick layer of smelly, slimy bacteria that clogs the leach field beds. Wastewater then accumulates above the bacteria layer. This causes odorous ponds and septic tank backups.

Municipal wastewater treatment plants introduce oxygen into the holding tank to enable aerobic bacteria to decompose the solids in the wastewater. Healthy aerobic bacteria work faster, are odorless and do not clog drainage systems.

The solution to most home septic systems, problems or preventative maintenance, is to introduce oxygen into the septic tank. This encourages healthy, active aerobic bacteria to decompose the solids in the wastewater. The wastewater discharged to the leach field bed now contains a substantial amount of oxygen. This severely limits the amount of non-oxygen waste that the anaerobic bacteria need to live. They are starved and disappear from the leach field beds again allowing the wastewater to properly filter through the leach field bed.

Older aerated septic systems like Aqua Safe and Aqua Aire use 8 to 200 liters per minute of air from various types of air compressors. Their largest system uses 200 liters per minute or 10 cubic foor per minute. These systems offer high airflow, noisy and high maintenance compressors and lots of suspended solids in the wastewater as it flows into the leach field. They require septic filters before the aerated water goes into leach field.

Newer types of aerated systems like the Aero-Stream and Sweetfilter use 1 to 4 liters per minute or 0.1 to 0.25 cubic foot per minute. These systems offer noiseless compressors and very few suspended solids in the leaving aerated water; septic filters are seldom required.

When you install an aeration system on you septic tank your system operates like a municipal sewage plant. The big difference in the two newer systems is Aero-Stream operates on electrical power, you have added expense to your bill. The Sweetfilter is solar, you never pay a power bill to operate your aerator, and you are helping to make this island home our earth GREEN!

Dick Pennington
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