Construction underway of full-scale BioCord; Reactor system to cost-effectively expand treatment capacity at Limoges WWTF
DATE POSTED: March 30, 2020
Construction is underway of a full-scale Bishop BioCord™ Reactor system to upgrade the capacity and performance of the Limoges Wastewater Treatment Facility (WWTF) in The Nation Municipality, located 45 minutes east of Ottawa.
The low capital and operating cost of the BioCord system enabled The Nation Municipality to cost-effectively extend the life of its treatment plant and avoid the high cost of replacing the lagoons with a complex mechanical treatment plant. The Nation Municipality, along with the project engineer R.V. Anderson Associates Limited, had evaluated several treatment options that could accommodate residential and commercial growth in the community before selecting the BioCord Reactor system.
“The Nation Municipality is always striving to introduce new technologies that will result in lower capital and maintenance costs, and provide a higher quality effluent from the Limoges wastewater treatment facility,” said Mayor Francois St Amour.
Manufactured in Ontario by Bishop Water Technologies, BioCord is a simple, easy-to-operate fixed-film treatment process. The BioCord system uses strands of densely arranged loops of polymer fibers suspended from free-standing frames to provide a massive surface area on which preferred, naturally occurring bacteria can grow.
With an optimized BioCord system, wastewater lagoons can accept greater nutrient loading, decrease retention times and improve effluent quality—especially in cold-weather conditions, when treatment typically becomes more difficult for conventional lagoon systems.
“Bishop BioCord Reactors provide growing communities with a cost-effective option to increase the treatment capacity of a wastewater lagoon without taking on the burden of high capital and long-term operating costs that come with many mechanical treatment plants,” said Kevin Bossy, CEO of Bishop Water Technologies. “BioCord’s simple, self-regulating process also aligns well with the way wastewater lagoons are typically managed, which means operators can quickly learn how to run the BioCord system and how to optimize it to provide consistent, reliable performance under all conditions.”
Expand secondary treatment without increasing process footprint
Sixty BioCord reactors will be installed directly into two new lagoon cells that will be created by dividing a large existing cell. Baffle curtains will also be added into the new cells to direct the flow of wastewater through a channel of BioCord Reactors, increase the retention time and prevent short circuiting.
This configuration provides significant reductions in capital costs since no increase in lagoon footprint or addition of sidestream process tanks are needed for the BioCord system to enhance the secondary treatment process. BioCord’s modular, scalable design also enables secondary treatment capacity to be easily expanded by simply installing additional reactors to achieve the required performance.
Once installed and active, BioCord’s unique, integrated aeration system produces abundant microbubbles that provide high oxygen transfer for the microbial biofilm, while also mixing the activated sludge and scouring excess biofilm from the BioCord.
Project construction is being managed by Ottawa-based general contractor Thomas Fuller Construction Ltd., and is scheduled to be completed in August 2020.
About Bishop Water Technologies
Bishop Water Technologies provides simple, reliable nutrient removal and solids management solutions that enable communities and industries to affordably solve water and wastewater challenges while protecting the environment. Hundreds of sites trust our low-energy, low-complexity customizable solutions to deliver robust performance and easy operation with low capital and operating costs. Our highly experienced and talented team relentlessly supports our clients and works collaboratively with like-minded, environmentally focused partners to continuously enhance the performance, value and sustainability of our solutions portfolio.
For media inquiries contact:
Tony Kobilnyk
Bishop Water Technologies
tony@bishopwater.ca
1-343-361-0463
Contact us to for information about our fixed-film BioCord™ Reactors
Bishop Water BioCord Reactors to be distributed in Chile by Novatech
DATE POSTED: February 27, 2020
Simple, low-energy BioCord process offers affordable wastewater treatment option for hundreds of small communities and industrial sites in Chile
Bishop Water BioCord™ Reactors have made their way to South America as part of a new distribution agreement with Novatech, a rapidly growing Chilean company that specializes in solutions for aquaculture, slurry dewatering using Geotube® containers, and geotextiles for road construction.
Novatech will add Bishop Water BioCord Reactors to its solutions portfolio, enabling the company to begin offering a simple, low-energy biological nutrient removal system for communities of all sizes and for industrial applications in sectors such as mining, food processing, agriculture and others.
BioCord is a fixed-film treatment process that uses strands of densely arranged loops of polymer fibres to provide a massive surface area on which preferred, naturally occurring bacteria can grow. The reactors can be installed directly into a wastewater lagoon or conventional activated sludge tank, helping to keep capital costs low while dramatically increasing treatment capacity and performance.
“There are hundreds of small communities and industrial sites in Chile that are in need of a new wastewater treatment plant, or performance improvements to their existing plant, to comply with increasingly stringent discharge regulations,” said Gerardo Marti, Managing Director of Novatech. “BioCord reactors are an ideal way to provide an affordable, easy-to-install and easy-to-operate nutrient removal process that will perform as well or better than more costly and more complex alternatives.”
Proven performance under the toughest conditions
BioCord Reactors are proven to achieve significant reductions in nutrients and other constituents of waste streams under a range of conditions, including high-strength influent or challenging cold-weather treatment. An optimized BioCord system can achieve ammonia removal of 90% or greater and BOD removal of 80% or greater, even in operating temperatures as low as 1°C. These results are obtained using up to 50% less energy than alternatives, since aeration of the BioCord Reactors is performed by low-energy compressors rather than complex, costly blowers.
BioCord’s modular design also enables the system to be customized to fit virtually any type of secondary treatment process and to handle the anticipated flow and loading parameters. As treatment needs change, additional BioCord Reactors can be added easily.
“We are very excited to see BioCord Reactors introduced to the Latin American market through Novatech,” said Kevin Bossy, CEO of Bishop Water Technologies. “BioCord Reactors are now distributed in three continents, demonstrating the importance and acceptance of this unique technology as a reliable, low-energy and affordable wastewater treatment option for new plants or to upgrade existing systems.
Novatech will also offer BioCord as part of an integrated treatment system where Geotube containers can provide a simple solids management process followed by BioCord Reactors to efficiently and cost-effectively remove nutrients from the filtrate.
About Bishop Water Technologies
Bishop Water Technologies provides simple, reliable nutrient removal and solids management solutions that enable communities and industries to affordably solve water and wastewater challenges while protecting the environment. Hundreds of sites trust our low-energy, low-complexity customizable solutions to deliver robust performance and easy operation with low capital and operating costs. Our highly experienced and talented team relentlessly supports our clients and works collaboratively with like-minded, environmentally focused partners to continuously enhance the performance, value and sustainability of our solutions portfolio.
About Novatech
Novatech is a Chilean corporation with commercial activities throughout Latin America. The company is well established as a manufacturer, installer and service provider of mortality retrieval systems for the Chilean aquaculture industry, the world’s second largest producer of farmed salmon. Novatech also manufactures and distributes Tencate Geotube® containers and distributes the full line of Tencate advanced geotextiles to a growing list of clients in the Southern Cone of Latin America.
For media inquiries contact:
Tony Kobilnyk
Bishop Water Technologies
tony@bishopwater.ca
1-343-361-0463
Contact us to for information about our fixed-film BioCord™ Reactors