Year Round Cold Water Treatment Capacity Improvement Options
Regan Smith (Technology Ecofixe)

Ammonia pollution in aquatic ecosystems poses critical environmental challenges, driven by agricultural runoff, and municipal and industrial effluents. Conventional wastewater treatment methods often struggle to provide year-round ammonia removal efficiency, particularly in colder climates where microbial activity is reduced during colder conditions. To address this need, a practical and proven approach based on modular fixed bed media attached growth systems has emerged.

This scientific advancement in year-round ammonia removal holds promise for revolutionizing wastewater treatment strategies. By combining principles of biofilm ecology and modular engineering, this approach addresses a significant gap in the current methodology. This innovation capitalizes on the principles of biofilm formation on fixed media while embracing modular design, ensuring adaptability, scalability, and operational stability. Selecting media with a high surface area and engineering-specific microbial consortia enables consistent optimal ammonia removal performance throughout the year.

As environmental regulations become stricter and the demand for sustainable solutions increases, this innovative approach has the potential to reshape ammonia removal into a more efficient and ecologically friendly process, with implications beyond wastewater treatment into broader ecological and environmental contexts.