Application to a wastewater treatment plant |
FBF Organics installed a reactor unit at a low energy gravity feed sewage works, which receives domestic sewage from the surrounding community of a small coastal town. The system consists of one anaerobic pond followed by four facultative ponds. The final effluent is chlorinated before being discharged to river.
Prior to FBF Organics treating the system, the ponds had been neglected and the anaerobic as well as the primary facultative ponds had an accumulation of sewage waste. The Municipality recognised that the ponds were organically overloaded and as a consequence the performance of the plant was unsatisfactory. In order to improve the functioning of this plant FBF Organics installed a reactor at the pump station in March 2004 and the bio-activator introduced to the sewage stream in the last week of March 2004. WWTW Bio Activator improves the functioning of waste water treatment plants (WWTP). WWTW Bio Activator is comprised of organic molecules generated by bacterial fermentation. These molecules act on the existing bacteria in the ponds allowing facultative bacteria to out compete anaerobes for the substrate. Empirical observations have shown higher rates of organic degradation, increased metabolic rates, reduction in hydrogen sulphides and mercaptan production amongst others. COD Figure 1. COD settled (mg/L) in the effluent coming out of the anaerobic pond. Figure 2. Filtered COD (mg/L) of the effluent coming out of the anaerobic pond. Figure 3. Total COD (mg/L) of the effluent coming out of the anaerobic pond. Suspended solids Odours Summary |