Removing Nitrogen with Novel Biotechnology Applications

After the successful implementation and start-up of the first three full-scale applications of Biotechnology from Lentikat (Czech Republic) for removal of nitrogen from various types of municipal and industrial wastewater, this novel technology is now helping to achieve strict nitrogen discharge limits in yet another industrial plant. A simple and compact solution for the removal of residual nitrates was easily fitted within the existing physical-chemical treatment process applied to the effluent from a steel tool manufacturing plant and has subsequently brought the plant into compliance with their environmental discharge consent.

A parallel laboratory based research project has further confirmed the high denitrification efficiency rate of Lentikat Biocatalyst to deal with the removal of nitrates from coal power plant effluents, typically characterised by extremely high salinity and presence of other inhibitory compounds.

Once again the lentil-shaped Biocatalysts have proven themselves able to succeed where more conventional technologies have failed. Following the recent success in the local Czech market LentiKat’s a.s. is now joining forces with a number of renowned companies around the world, introducing their wastewater solutions in the US, Brazil, Australia and China.