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Xogen Technologies Inc. has begun the next step in the development of their electrolytic process to treat waste water from industrial and municipal sources. After successful lab trials and approval by the Canadian Government Xogen plans to complete the design, construction and installation of a completely unique waste water treatment demonstration plant by 2010 in there home town of Orangeville, Ontario.
During lab tests under adverse conditions the Xogen technology was able to operate with incredible efficiency removing more than 99% of all typical sewage contaminants (BOD, NH3 and E.Coli) in minutes and eliminated 98% of the total phosphorus without any need of chemical salts. Conventional biological treatment of wastewater is not only complicated it also takes hours and requires chemicals.
Conventional Biological Treatment
The Potential Benefits of Xogen Technology to NY: http://xogentechnologies.ca/technology.php#a5
The potential benefits of an Xogen plant as compared to a conventional biological plant are as follows:
• Complete elimination of most of the infrastructure components of a conventional plant including the primary clarifier, aeration basin and air blowers, disinfection processes, sludge stabilization processes such as anaerobic digestion and final disposal or utilization of the stabilized sludge.
• Huge reduction in the footprint of the plant
• Complete elimination or significant reduction in sludge (biosolids) processing costs
• More stable process allowing for rapid start-up and insensitive to toxic shocks. Biological plants typically have a long start-up time because the microbes must be acclimatized to the feed (sewage) and increase in concentration to the point where acceptable treatment is achieved. In addition, since a biological system relies on microbes, any components in the incoming sewage can result in either killing the entire biomass or shocking it to the point where it takes a significant period of time, sometimes days, to recover its efficiency.
• The production of a significant energy source in the form of hydrogen which can be used to generate electrical energy for internal use or export. Xogen has powered various combustion devices with the hydrogen-oxygen gas liberated by the technology; such as a 1-kw Honda generator, under 90% load conditions.
• All of these factors suggest that the Xogen technology would likely be extremely cost competitive with existing conventional approaches for municipal wastewater treatment.
• It is also expected that the Xogen technology could be directly applied to the treatment of many industrial wastewaters and perhaps to the treatment of potable water.
previous Xogen articles:
Examiner
http://xogentechnologies.ca/
http://xogentechnologies.ca/news/Influents_Fall09_pg46-47.pdf
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