Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) media has potential to expand wastewater treatment plant capacity. It allows higher levels of biological solids than suspended growth activated sludge systems. Meaning that you can run high MCRT & lower F/M for a given aeration basin/secondary clarifier.
Lower F/M means less solids production - older biomass but this does require sufficient D.O. to prevent filamentous bacteria development.
Helps if your clarifiers are not able to support high MLSS due to hydraulic constraints.
The Advanced MBBR QuaChip 3.0 offers a price-to-surface area ratio which is more favourable than many other carrier types. To properly evaluate offers for carrier media you need to compare prices of different media not per m3 but per m2 since each media has a different m2/m3 ratio. The protected active surface area (in 2/m3) and not solely the volume (in m3) of carrier media is what is needed to make an accurate cost comparison.
The special shape and specific gravity of the colonized Advanced MBBR QuaChip 3.0 provide unique motion characteristics which require less agitation energy in the form of process air supply in order to keep the carrier suspended in the wastewater. By using the MBBR BioChip 3.0 Wastewater treatment operators will benefit from significant savings in operational expenditure.
Each Advanced MBBR QuaChip 3.0 media has a very low mass compared to its size. Consequently, the impulse transferred when contact is made with another carrier element is insignificant thus drastically reducing abrasion and wear. Other tubular carrier types (often injection-moulded and heavy related to their size) conversely break after a certain time in operation leaving carrier parts on the water surface in the clarifiers of wastewater treatment plants.