Moleaer’s nanobubble technology is helping municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants solve common challenges like odor, compliance and biogas production while increasing treatment capacity and lowering costs
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Meister Cheese Co. in Wisconsin battled with poor anaerobic digester health until they deployed nanobubbles on their wastewater treatment system. Nanobubbles reduced inhibitory compounds like food sanitation chemicals and FOG to improve digester performance, resulting in better biogas quality, increased cogeneration and the ability to increase cheese production.
Discover how nanobubbles helped Meister solve this problem and enhance their cheese production. Download the case study now!
Miller Poultry in Indiana had challenges with their wastewater treatment lagoon, causing foul odors and poor treatment efficiency. Nanobubbles solved this problem, and even helped improve effluent water quality by improving nitrogen and solids removal.
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Noxious odors from Stavnsholt WWTP in Denmark caused a stir with the local community, requiring an effective solution. Instead of costly construction to their primary clarifier, Stavnsholt's team turned to Moleaer's nanobubble solutions through TechrasNano, a local partner. Not only did they eliminate odor issues, but they also were able to reduce ferric chloride usage, increase methane production and increase sludge dry matter.
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San Luis Obispo WRRF faced issues with foul odors during their large plant upgrades, necessitating a quick solution to mitigate community impacts. Moleaer's swift action and innovative solution, enabled SLO WRRF to reduce foul odors and continue their upgrade. Additionally, with nanobubbles they saw improved aeration efficiencies inside their bioreactors.
Access their success story to read about Patrick McGrath's, the plant's supervisor, experience with nanobubbles.
City of Lodi had a history of biological process inhibition likely due to surfactants and QACs that caused ammonia breakthrough in late fall through early winter. After deploying Moleaer's nanobubble technology, they saw improved nitrification performance, quick recovery to ammonia breakthroughs, and improved organism health.
Moleaer's partner in South Africa, BluePlanet, deployed nanobubbles on DAF wastewater systems at multiple meat processing plants. They were able to reduce white water by up to 100% and completely eliminate the need for chemicals, while achieving 82-87% reduced FOG and better separation and coagulation.
"Moleaer’s sales, service and engineering teams were all great to work with, helping us solve our long-standing odor problem. Moleaer is a great company delivering great science and even better results."
"Moleaer’s system deployed quickly and was plug-and-play, treating toxic stormwater and easing bioreactor loads. Operators observed that minimal oversight proved the system works. Given Moleaer's benefits, the plant would have rented larger equipment long-term, but for budget constraints. Still, though undersized, Moleaer’s equipment optimized operations and eased aeration, while regular check-ins addressed issues. Lasting two months, this deployment targeted odors and efficiency, while construction continued."
Supervisor at San Luis Obispo Water Resource Recovery Facility (SLO WRRF)
"In my 16 years at the city, I have never seen the plant recover as quickly from an ammonia spike as it did with Moleaer’s nanobubble system."
Wastewater Treatment Operations Supervisor at City of Lodi
Moleaer’s nanobubble technology addresses the toughest challenges in wastewater treatment. We know each plant is unique, with specific needs and constraints, and we’re committed to understanding and resolving your distinct issues. Dive into the science behind nanobubbles and explore a solution tailored to tackle your facility’s unique challenges head-on.
Fats, oils and grease (FOG) and amphiphilic compounds, such as quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs), surfactants and soaps, are commonly found in wastewater and can interfere with solids separation, biological processes and oxygen transfer. This significantly reduces the efficiency of wastewater treatment and increases the likelihood of common problems like excessive scum and high energy and chemical demand. Moleaer’s nanobubbles selectively attract and inactivate these inhibitory compounds using a clean, in-situ chemical process to improve treatment efficiency and reduce scum build-up.
Treatment instability is a challenge for many wastewater treatment plants, leading to problems with process upsets, toxicity events, and inconsistent performance. By reducing inhibitory compounds like surfactants and fats, oils and grease and improving treatment efficiency, nanobubble technology enables reliability in the treatment process to give treatment operators peace of mind and management the ability to plan for long-term success.
Learn how Meister Cheese Company solved their anaerobic digester performance challenges with nanobubble solutions from Moleaer.
More and more wastewater professionals are seeing reduced treatment capacity and capacity constraints in well-designed treatment facilities in recent years. This is attributed to the increased concentration and use of surfactant-based products and fats, oils, and grease, which lead to the formation of stable emulsions that disrupt wastewater treatment processes. These emulsions are difficult to remove using conventional treatment processes which leads to inefficiency, operational and biological chemical demand (BOD) challenges, process upsets, and increased operating costs. Moleaer's nanobubble technology offers a robust solution to selectively target and break down surfactants to increase treatment capacity and improve process efficiency.
Odor is common in wastewater treatment plants; however, frequent complaints and unhappy neighbors make foul odors an increasing problem. These odors are typically caused by noxious gases like Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S), which can pose health concerns. When common solutions like deodorizing chemicals and bioaugmentation are expensive or aren’t working, nanobubble technology has emerged as a sustainable solution. In fact, our customers have not only seen significant odor reductions but have also improved their process performance. Nanobubble technology enables lower contaminant levels in effluent water and process intensification, the optimization of treatment processes for maximum efficiency and resource consumption and reduced environmental impact.
Lagoons or facultative ponds are commonly used wastewater treatment processes in both municipal and industrial wastewater plants for their simplicity; however, they are not without challenges. The most prevalent issue and biggest complaint plants receive is from foul odor that can emanate from lagoons during the treatment process. The release of odorous gases poses a nuisance to nearby communities and has environmental and health implications. Other issues include treatment capacity constraints and high costs for dredging the lagoons. Moleaer’s nanobubble technology mitigated odor issues for both municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants. For instance, nanobubbles reduced the surfactant concentrations in a poultry processing lagoon, improving its health, treatment capacity, and water quality parameters, while reducing foul odors. Moleaer’s technology was also used at a municipal lagoon to eliminate neighborhood odor complaints. Additionally, the customer saw increased treatment capacity and biogas production. They were even able to implement water reuse technologies from improved effluent quality with lower biological oxygen demand (BOD), ammonia and more.
Did you know surfactants could be the cause of your treatment issues? Regardless of industrial or municipal application, the common observed wastewater challenges are often caused by inhibitory compounds like surfactants and fats, oils and grease. Dive into the world of inhibitory compounds in our white paper.
Watch our wastewater explainer videos to explore the how nanobubbles help solve common wastewater challenges through their unique properties.
Did you know wastewater contaminants like liquid soaps, detergents, degreasers and antimicrobials are a pressing concern in wastewater treatment? Water this video to learn how nanobubbles help inactivate these contaminants, reducing their inhibition and helping plants improve treatment efficiency and capacity while reducing costs.
Did you know inhibitory compounds disrupt lagoon processes causing issues like foul odors, poor effluent quality and more? Watch to learn how nanobubbles reduce the inhibition from these compounds, improving lagoon treatment processes and reduce common challenges.
Moleaer’s nanobubble technology enables wastewater treatment facilities to treat more wastewater and/or treat it faster by improving biodegradability. In addition to some chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal, nanobubbles convert slowly biodegradable biological oxygen demand (BOD) to readily biodegradable BOD. This facilitates more efficient BOD consumption by bacteria in the wastewater. Our customers see better effluent quality, reduced treatment costs and higher treatment capacity.
Moleaer’s customers in water resource recovery facilities (WRRF) and industrial food and beverage wastewater treatment facilities are seeing lower treatment costs, better treatment efficiency and increased capacity.
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