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

本项目的研究和开发是为了解决废水和污泥生物处理过程中与废水和污泥处理过程的代谢和生物反应速率相关的重要问题。生物处理在废水和污泥处理中得到了广泛的应用，因为它们可以有效地应用和具有成本效益的手段来减少来自城市和工业来源的液体废物流中的有机物和营养物含量，然后再将其最终排放到环境中。生物处理的工作原理是基于不同微生物在不同环境配置下的代谢率。分解的速度取决于微生物的活动。降解缓慢可能与微生物无法降解、污染物溶解度低以及特定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用性通常是有限的，但对于最大限度地发挥生物过程也是必不可少的。这些废物流的异生物质性质是生物处理过程的前沿。为了最大限度地提高微生物的效率，微量营养素应易于生物群落获得， 功能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产品（BioStreme X），并将其应用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，并使用灵活的方法设计微量营养素配方，以提高废水在四个不同的生物过程中的生物降解性：硝化，反硝化，增强除磷和厌氧消化。新的BioStreme X补充产品 提供一个平衡的和容易获得的微量营养素包，导致高生物利用度的生化微生物自然存在于废物流。通过添加新的BioStreme X补充产品提高了处理效率，为废水和污泥处理工艺提供了另一种选择，特别是对于在最大设计负荷率下挣扎的设施，或者需要一种捷径来降低运营成本。该项目将导致高代谢的发展 速率（HMrate）是达到预期处理目标所必需的生物过程。该技术是准确和灵敏的，因为微量营养素形式将基于生物过程的性质来设计。它也是一种无毒产品，因为它完全由植物和动物材料制成。 通过采用这些原则，我们与ECOLO气味控制技术公司合作，该公司将进行基础可行性研究，并开发新的BioStreme X补充产品，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补充产品预计将显着提高生物过程的代谢率，并减少生物质停留时间 特别是在长固体保留时间（SRT）中。 我们提出的产品还旨在解决现有生物处理厂常见的温室气体（GHG）排放问题。减少温室气体和加强废水和污泥处理过程中的生物营养物去除，预计将大大有助于ECOLO扩展到新的处理厂市场。通过公司的合作和奉献，使用HMrate生物处理工艺的新产品的全面商业化预计将在未来2-3年内实现。该公司预计5年内年收入为200万美元， 将在安大略创造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.