When we have added media to ...
Published by John Salonich, Vice President / Managing Director
When we have added media to bioreactor/aeration systems, we have had to secure the media in a poly mesh bag, otherwise the rubbing against one another would scour off the fixed growth film and it would pass through the system reducing the volume of CFUs available for biological reductions. Once the media was secured the performance went up in direct proportion to the increase in CFUs available on the surface area. There is natural sloughing and those cultures become part of the floc.