APPLICATIONS

Agricultural Wastewater

Agrimond has worked with some of the largest farmers in the United States to find a solution to the waste dilemma that is facing the agricultural industry. The primary issues of concern include noxious odors, impacts to surface waters and impacts to our groundwater supplies. Agrimond agricultural wastewater treatment methods significantly improve the air quality and considerably reduce any further threat of ground or surface water contamination. New waste processing technologies must be capable of segregating and reusing as much of what otherwise might be considered a waste if the technology is to endure the next 3 or 4 decades. With proven patented treatment systems ranging from the removal of nutrients and odor control to the purification of animal wastes, Agrimond is setting the standard in agricultural wastewater treatment.

BENEFITS

Significant Reduction of Required Land Application Acreage—The TecH₂Ozone^TM Wastewater Treatment System provides little to no need for land application of wastewater from the hog farm since the treated water will be reused by the animals themselves. In the event land application is desired periodically, the treatment system will provide effluent with significantly reduced nutrient concentrations, which allow for land application on less land based on nutrient quantity.

Significant Reduction of Ammonia Volatilization—The ammonia will be oxidized to nitrates in the aeration steps. Anaerobic processes contribute to atmospheric ammonia emissions in that the end product of the conversion of organic nitrogen is ammonia. In aerobic processes, the end product of the conversion of organic nitrogen and ammonia will be nitrates. The Agrimond system converts the organic nitrogen and ammonia to nitrates in the primary aeration step following delivery of the waste from the animal barns and bulk solids separation. Additionally, the waste undergoes a secondary aeration step following primary aeration and clarification to further convert the organic nitrogen and ammonia to nitrates. Following secondary aeration, the waste undergoes an anoxic step promoting denitrification, which converts the nitrates to elemental nitrogen, which is released to the atmosphere.

Significant Reduction of Noxious Odors—This reduction is a result of the aerobic treatment processes resulting in improved overall air quality. Odor causing gases such as methane and hydrogen sulfide will also be eliminated via the aerobic process significantly improving the overall odor in the barns, at the treatment system site and in the spray fields.

Improved Health Conditions Inside Animal Pens (i.e. hog houses)— By flushing the animal pens with aerobically treated wastewater, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, methane and pathogens will be significantly reduced, if not eliminated. The proprietary blend of bacteria used in the treatment system contain all non-pathogenic aerobic strains of bacteria, thus minimizing the opportunity for disease-transmitting vectors and airborne pathogens commonly associated with anaerobic treatment lagoons.

Quality Construction of Treatment Tanks Alleviate Groundwater Impact—The interior of the primary and secondary aeration treatment tanks are specially lined to avoid groundwater impact and/or leakage. The clarifier and sludge thickening tanks are constructed of solid polypropylene to contribute to the rigidity of the system.

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