Wastewater engineers have long identified the lack "bio-chemically available oxygen”, as a failure point in achieving environmental wastewater goals. While aeration has been the technology of choice for decades, these techniques fail to produce a truly valuable product. A new technology is quickly gaining acceptance to replace aeration techniques. The technology is categorized as nanobubble oxygenation, and it represents a quantum leap in creating a bio-chemically available oxygen product. 

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Infusion Technology is leading the nanobubble category with their innovative vortex driven approach. The Vortex is a nanotechnology equipment solution that drives incredible concentrations of practically pure and highly stabilized oxygen molecules into the client’s wastewater. 

 

Shortcomings of Aeration

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• Starts with a poor oxygen source (ambient air contains only 20% O2, which creates nitrogen rich bubbles, not oxygen rich bubbles).
   

• Produces large bubbles which rise too quickly to be useful to the wastewater's biomass reducing the BOD/COD removal rates.
   

• Bubbles coalesce (two bubbles collide to form an even bigger bubble, which accelerates the rise rate.

 

Solution

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• Utilizes a pure oxygen source to create an oxygen-rich bubble.
   

• Leverages "applied pressure" to produce microscopic bubbles that rise slowly, improving BOD/COD removal.
   

• Produces bubbles with like charges that resist coalescing (reduced rise rate increases contact time and increases the likelihood of achieving environmental goals).

 

Vortex benefits:

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• Unique design provides flexibility, accepting either a pure oxygen source, an enriched oxygen source or an ambient air oxygen source.
   

• Leverages pressure and vortex mixing to "stabilize the oxygen" in the solution and achieve the desired BOD/COD removal.
   

• Generates like charges in the bubbles, so they repel each other. The repelling forces generate a l"micro mixing" effect.