AqWise: Habitat For Humanity's Waste
by Karin Kloosterman, Jerusalem, Israel on 06.21.06
Israeli-based AqWise is increasing the amount of reclaimed water at wastewater plants. Based on a simple plastic bead about the size of a peanut (which you wouldn't want to eat) with enough space for plenty of fecal-munching bacterial and an aeration system, their system is already used in sewage treatment plants in the US, Canada and Latin America. Hundreds of thousands of plastic beads are sent swimming in a vat in combination with turbines that spin and aerate the water and waste just so. The latticework structure inside the bead increases surface area and provides low-rent condominiums for the bacteria ready and willing to help turn human waste into something resembling clean water. Go bacteria!!
Company website says AqWise's system can be used in intensive municipal plants and extensive lagoons, from fish-farms to food industries, from pulp and paper plants to chemical plants. The techie name for their technology is AGAR (it is a fixed biofilm process they say), which can be implemented for expansion of existing wastewater treatment plants for increased capacity and nitrogen removal, while using the same biological reactor.
AqWise can help upgrade the biological process only or provide a complete turn-key job, covering primary, secondary and tertiary treatment.
Main benefits of utilizing AqWise's technology:
* Additional BOD removal and/or lower retention time
* Addition of nutrient removal
* Retrofit/upgrade of existing, conventional plants
* Minimal construction works, down time, and capital cost
* Stable plant operation, lower sensitivity to shock loading
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A simple concept that has been used for years in fish aquariums.
The systems not only process waste water and liquid hazardous waste but the by-product of the process is a non-fossil fuel that reduces carbon emissions by 50% compared to fossil fuels, it releases up to 15% oxygen when burned and the processor is very compact and highly efficient.
Our exhaust sustains life!
Although we are currently concentrating our systems for liquid waste treatment, our processors can be configured for highly specialized uses such as; custom fuels, Hydrogen generation, clean coal energy and crude oil processing to name a few.