Virgin HDPE Material Mbbr Filter Media Biochip for Water Treatment Plant

Performance
The Bio Chip 30™ high-performance carrier provides an active surface area of more than 5,500 m²/m³ which is proven in numerous large-scale applications and also scientifically certified by means of nanostructure measurements of the carrier surface area. The carrier media has been specifically developed for the biodegradation of carbon and the elimination of nitrogen in industrial and municipal wastewater treatment plants. Due its specific characteristics, it can be used equally for aerobic, anaerobic and anoxic processes. The results are extremely high removal rates in denitrification, nitrification and COD elimination process.

Quality
With regards to environmental and health-related aspects, the Bio Chip 30™ is exclusively made of virgin PE material (no re-granulates from recycled material) and does not contain any plasticizers which are under strong suspicion of being carcinogenic. The Bio Chip 30™ material is very flexible, abrasion-resistant, and it does not break under pressure stress. Any unfoamed biofilm carriers with larger hollow spaces (small tube type, fan washer type, molded media) do not provide any suchlike buffer and, once exposed to pressure, they can get damaged very easily or get fine hairline cracks which may lead to a complete breakage at a later point of time.

Cost saving
The high biodegradation performance of the Bio Chip 30™ carrier with large active surface area of more than 5,500 m²/m³ allows for using less carrier volume than with "conventional" carriers since there is less Bio Chip 30™ volume required for providing the similar protected active surface area. Customers can save money due to smaller tank volumes, and it is a crucial feature when there is only limited space available when building a new WWTP. Besides, when less carrier volume required means less transport volumes in shipment at similarly large surface area thus the transport cost will therefore become low.

Alternative product
"BioFlakes" As a favorable alternative to the Bio Chip 30™, BioFlakes is offered as an alternative product with lower cost.
The BioFlakes have a diameter of approximately 30mm with 1.1 thickness and is made with PE re-granulate.

Diffusion Depth
Typically, the optimal supply of the biofilms with substrates and oxygen is reached at a layer thickness/depth of up to approx. 0.5 mm,this is made possible by the chip thickness of approx. 1.1 mm. The Bio Chip 30™ is carefully designed so that the pores on the carrier will be permanently filled with active biomass and at the same time allowing an appropriate diffusion.

High removal performance due to specific carrier characteristics
Bio Chip 30™ with a protected active surface area of more than 5,500 m²/m³ has a removal performance of 10 times higher per m³ when compare to other carrier media. The biofilms which establish inside the pores are kept very thin due to self-cleaning by shear forces which work on the outer side of the carrier (resulting from the carrier's movement in the wastewater) whereas, the diffusion depth of biofilms, thin biofilms are essential for an optimal substrate and oxygen transfer from the water to the microorganisms.

Long life abrasion resistant material
One single element of the Bio Chip 30™ media has a very low mass compared to its size. Due to low kinetic energy, the impulse transferred in the case of contact with another carrier element or the tank walls are that insignificant that each kind of abrasion and wear is maximally reduced. The paraboloid design also allows optimal movement. Contrary to that, it is not a rarely occurring phenomenon that several tubular carrier types (often injection-molded and heavy related to their size) break after a certain time in operation.