High Metabolic Rate (HMrate) for Biological wastewater and sludge treatment processes using new BioStreme

本项目将进行的研究和开发是为了解决废水和污泥生物处理工艺中与废水和污泥处理工艺的代谢和生物反应速率有关的一个重要问题。生物法在废水和污泥处理中得到了广泛的应用，因为它可以在城市和工业废液最终排放到环境之前降低其有机物和营养物质的含量。生物处理的工作原理是基于不同环境配置下不同微生物的代谢率。分解的速度取决于微生物的活动。降解缓慢可能与微生物不能降解、污染物的低溶解性以及特定的微量营养素限制有关。 然而，有许多市政和工业废水处理过程排放微生物细胞不熟悉的合成化合物。某些微量营养素的可获得性通常是有限的，但对于最大限度地发挥生物过程的作用也是必不可少的。这些废流的异生特性使生物处理过程处于边缘。为了最大限度地提高微生物的效率，微量营养素应该容易地被生物界获得，并 功能细菌菌株的代谢率将相应增加。 为了加强生物废水和污泥处理工艺，该项目将重点开发新的微量营养素补充剂产品(BioStreme X)，并将其落实到生物废水和污泥处理工艺的设计中。我们打算优化现有资源，并在设计微量营养素配方时采用灵活的方法，以提高废物在四个不同生物过程中的可生物降解性：硝化、反硝化、强化除磷和厌氧消化。新款BioStreme X补充剂产品 提供平衡和易于获取的微量营养素包，为废流中自然存在的微生物提供高度生物可利用的生化。通过添加新的BioStreme X补充剂产品提高了处理效率，在废水和污泥处理过程中提供了另一种选择，特别是对于在最大设计负荷率下挣扎的设施，或者需要以较短的方式削减运营成本。该项目将导致开发一种高代谢 达到预期治疗目标所需的生物过程。这项技术是准确和灵敏的，因为微量营养素形式将根据生物过程的性质进行设计。它也是一种无毒产品，因为它完全由动植物材料制成。 通过采用这些原则，我们将与ECOLO气味控制技术公司合作，进行基本的可行性研究，并开发新的BioStreme X补充剂产品，这些产品将在实验室规模和全面规模的市政和工业废水和污泥处理厂进行测试。新的BioStreme X补充剂产品预计将显著提高生物过程的代谢率，并减少生物量的保留时间 特别是在长固体保留时间(SRT)的情况下。 我们建议的产品还旨在解决现有生物处理厂普遍存在的关于温室气体(GHG)排放的关键问题。减少温室气体排放和加强废水和污泥处理过程中的生物养分去除预计将极大地帮助Ecolos向新的处理厂市场扩张。通过公司的合作和奉献，采用HMRate生物处理工艺的新产品有望在未来2-3年内完全商业化。该公司预计5年内年收入将达到200万美元， 将在安大略省创造多达10个新的就业机会。

The research and development that will be carried out in this project is to resolve an important problem with biological wastewater and sludge treatment processes related to the metabolic and biological reaction rates for wastewater and sludge treatment processes. Biological processes have gained great popularity in wastewater and sludge treatment for their effective applications and costeffective means to reduce organic and nutrient content of liquid waste streams from municipal and industrial sources, prior to their final discharge to the environment. The working principle of the biological treatments is based on the metabolic rate of different microorganisms at different environmental configurations. The rate of decomposition depends on microbial activities. Slow degradation could be associated with the microorganisms inability to degrade, to low solubility of the contaminant, and to specific micronutrient limitation. However, there are many municipal and industrial wastewater treatment processes that discharge synthetic compounds unfamiliar to microbial cells. The availability of certain micronutrient is conventionally limited but also essential to maximize the biological processes. The xenobiotic nature of these waste streams frontiers the biological treatment process. In order to maximum the efficiency of the microorganism, the micronutrients should be easily accessible to the biological community and metabolic rates of functional bacteria strains will increase accordingly. To enhance the biological wastewater and sludge treatment processes, this project will be focusing on developing new micronutrient supplement products (BioStreme X) and their implementation into the design of biological wastewater and sludge treatment processes. We intend to optimize the available resources and use a flexible approach in designing micronutrient formulae to enhance the biodegradability of waste streams at four different biological processes: nitrification, denitrification, enhanced phosphorus removal, and anaerobic digestion. The new BioStreme X supplement products offer a balanced and easily accessible micronutrient package that leads to a highly bioavailable biochemical for microbes naturally present in waste streams. Increased treatment efficiency with the addition of a new BioStreme X supplement product offers one more alternative in wastewater and sludge treatment processes, especially for facilities struggling at the maximum design loading rate, or need a short way to cut operation cost. This project will lead to the development of a High Metabolic Rate (HMrate) biological process necessary to achieve the desired treatment objective. This technique is accurate and sensitive because the micronutrient formals will be design based on the nature of the biological process. It is also a toxic-free product as it is made completely of plant and animal material. By employing these principles, we, in collaboration with the company ECOLO Odor Control Technology Inc., will conduct fundamental feasibility studies and develop new BioStreme X supplement products that will be tested on lab-scale and full-scale municipal and industrial wastewater and sludge treatment plants. The new BioStreme X supplement products are anticipated to significantly improve the metabolic rate of biological processes and reduce the biomass retention time especially in long solids retention time (SRT). Our proposed products also aim to resolve a critical problem common to existing biological treatment plants concerning greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Reductions in GHG and enhancing biological nutrient removal in wastewater and sludge treatment processes is anticipated to greatly aid ECOLOs expansion into new treatment plant markets. Through collaboration and dedication by the company, full commercialization of the new product using HMrate biological treatment process is expected to happen in the next 2-3 years. The company anticipates annual revenues of $2M within 5 years and would generate up to 10 new jobs in Ontario.