Raschig KONTAKT - High Performance Carrier Elements for MBBR and IFAS Processes
Innovative design for increased biomass concentration, helping reduce tank volume required for wastewater treatment. Cost effective solution for retrofitting existing treatment systems. Inexpensive alternative media for new plants and as replacement media for existing systems.
A key component to the MBBR (Moving Bed Biological Reactor) and IFAS (Integrated Fixed-Film/Activated Sludge) processes is the efficiency of the reactor media or carrier element.
Kontakt is a lightweight, durable, rugged and highly efficient media ideal for new MBBR and IFAS systems or for replacement of media or carrier elements in existing systems. Kontakt is added to aeration tanks and retained by a separation device. Diffused aeration systems and/or low energy mechanical mixers usually achieve sufficient agitation of the media.
Kontakt’s innovative design allows the media to freely move throughout the bioreactor and provides a high percentage of protected surface area for microorganisms to adhere. In turn, this allows for an increase in the overall biomass concentration which can reduce the tank volume required for wastewater treatment. Wastewater can pass freely through the large openings of the media which helps maintain a healthy and thin biofilm.
- 0.8" diameter (20.3mm)
- Length optional: ¼" - 1" (6.4 - 25.4mm)
- Dry shipping weight (approximate): 9 lbs/ft3 (144 kg/m3)
- Total surface area: 500 m2/m3 (152 ft2/ft3)
- Protected surface area: 371 m2/m3 (113 ft2/ft3)
- Available with or without UV inhibitors
Ideal for MBBR and IFAS Applications
- Manufactured of durable high density polyethylene
- Lightweight with a variable specific gravity from 0.93 to over 1.05 for HDPE material
- Provides a large protected surface area
- Open internal design resists clogging
- Long lasting, economical, and easy to ship and install
- Easily upgrade overloaded aerated basins or A/S plants by adding Kontakt and minor system upgrades
- Eliminate sludge recycling
- Cost effective solution for retrofitting existing treatment systems
- Inexpensive alternative media for new plants
- 1" diameter x ¼" long (25.4mm x 6.4mm)
- Dry shipping weight (approximate): 7.5 lbs/ft3 (119 kg/m3)
- Total surface area: 650 m2/m3 (198 ft2/ft3)
- Protected surface area: 550 m2/m3 (168 ft2/ft3)
- Available with or without UV inhibitors