Naturally Oxidizing Wastewater Ammonia

Ammonia, a common influent toxin, is a hazard to the aquatic life found in natural waters. Ammonia reduction of wastewater is easily tasked to bio-augmentation by employing two sets of live aerobic autotrophic microbial bugs for the process of converting the toxin to a relatively harmless form of nitrogen. The bio-augmentation process of ammonia nitrification is accomplished by ammonia oxidizing bacteria (sometimes referred to as nitritifiers or AOB`s) that digest ammonia into nitrite and following that conversion, by nitrite oxidizing bacteria (sometimes referred to as nitratifiers or NOB`s) that digest nitrite to relatively harmless nitrate. AOB`s and NOB`s each have saline counterparts for salinities greater than 6 parts per thousand.

To a certain extent, these nitrifying microbes are naturally occurring and will divide and multiply opportunistically so long as their energy sources are available. Conversely, they die back when their energy sources are depleted. While these microbial populations will die back immediately when energy sources are substantially consumed, they will not divide and multiply as fast as you can increase the energy sources. It is also possible to accidentally poison theses microbes or force die offs by sudden extremes in treatment process conditions.

Depletion of energy stocks used by the microbes is not common, but extreme changes in the treatment process influent for whatever sudden reason is common . Though these microbes are naturally occurring, waiting for your biological nitrification colonies to divide and multiply and perform as needed in the time span you have available may not be within the capacity of the treatment infrastructure or the permitting parameters for your location. Fritz Industries, Inc. maintains 15 bio- reactors for a combined growing capacity of over 35,000 gallons of concentrate colonies.

Concentrated material is sold by the pound or kilogram and shipped daily from our production facilities in Dallas, Texas and delivered via next day services though out the United States and around the world.