Biobased Cleaners

07 Feb: Clean Your Storage Containers with Biobased Chemicals

Are you an Operator who’s responsible for the safe maintenance or inspection of storage tanks? Then you’re familiar with the challenge of ensuring the accumulation of hydrocarbons, asphaltenes, and waxes are effectively removed before maintenance or inspections can occur. And while completing this essential service, additional challenges include the recovery of valuable hydrocarbons and the reduction of downtime to reduce revenue loss. While old methodologies may have worked in the past, they do not stand up to today’s requirements for competitive pricing, adherence to safe work procedures, or environmental safety standards. That’s why you need a product and a revolutionary…

31 Jan: Dr. ZE – the New Biobased Treatment to Your Toughest Symptoms

There is something not quite right, and you need answers. Folks told you it is just part of the way we do business, that this is what has always been done and it works fine that way. You know that’s not what you want to hear. We at Zen Earth say, “you’re right!” Just because a well isn’t producing what it did only a few years ago, doesn’t mean you have to live with the reduced production. Just like with our own health, today well-aging can be addressed to give them a longer, healthier production life. There is a treatment…

16 Jun: Clean Your Tank the Environmentally Conscious Way- With Zen Earth’s Storage Tank Cleaner

If you’re an Operator who’s responsible for the maintenance or inspection of storage tanks, you are well aware that storage tanks used to store crudes or distillates are in constant need of cleaning. The accumulation of hydrocarbons, asphaltenes, toxic gases, and waxes all need to be removed before maintenance or inspections can occur. Zen Earth Storage Tank Cleaner is a unique, bio-based renewable concentrated product, designed to break down and remove all hydrocarbons, asphaltenes and waxes. It’s bio-based chemical and semi-automated mechanical application process allows hydrocarbons to be easily separated and recycled. It is designed to make the difficult work…

14 Mar: A “Biopreferred Cleangredient”: What Does it Mean?

At Zen Earth, we proudly participate in both the USDA Biopreferred Program as well as the EPA Cleangredients Database. But what are these programs, and what do they mean for our customers? One of the major goals of the USDA Biopreferred program is to provide consumers with the ability to identify products that are “biobased”- meaning that they have been derived from plants and other renewable agricultural, marine and forestry materials. All Zen Earth products bearing the USDA Certified Biobased product label represent chemicals that have a third party verified amount of biological ingredients, thus providing an alternative to conventional…

01 Dec: What is a Surfactant?

At Zen Earth, our products use surfactant-based technology to clean and eliminate dirt and oil for a wide variety of industry purposes. Now, you may be wondering, what exactly is a surfactant? What do surfactants do and why are they important? Surfactants have been utilized for cleaning purposes for centuries- in fact, the earliest documented surfactant was used as a trade commodity by the Phoenicians in 600 BC (1)! In fact, surfactants are a key component in some of the most commonly used cleaners today- including soaps, dish and laundry detergent, shampoo, conditioner, and even toothpaste. So what is a surfactant?…