If the objective is to ...
Published by John Salonich, Vice President / Managing Director
If the objective is to increase the number of CFUs (colony forming units) in an aeration tank you can add a very durable packing media with high surface area for bacteria to grow. We use various media in our bioreactors when we have difficult substances to degrade such as formaldehyde which otherwise would kill off beneficial bacteria. We also had a bacteriologist culture a strain specific for the Formaldehyde degradation.