EcoMat, Inc. of Hayward, California (EcoMat) has developed an ex situ anoxic biofilter biodenitrification (BDN) process.
The process uses specific biocarriers and bacteria to treat nitrate-contaminated water and employs a patented reactor that retains biocarrier within the system, thus minimizing solids carryover.
Methanol is added to the system as a carbon source for cell growth and for inducing metabolic processes that remove free oxygen and encourages the bacteria to consume nitrate.
Methanol is also important to assure that the nitrate...
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