New wetland technology treats stronger effluents

Forced Bed Aeration at Buffalo Airport

A wider range of effluents - including those with high strength contaminants such as petrochemicals, agricultural wastewaters, biogas digestate and capped landfill leachate, and those high in BOD, COD, and ammonia can now be treated by reed beds due to new Forced Bed AerationTM (FBA) technology.  Currently undergoing trials in the UK for glycol removal, ARM Ltd joined forces with US-based Naturally Wallace which has proven the system internationally. Air is forced through the system to increase the oxygen availability, the greater the volume of oxygen in the system, the more efficient the treatment becomes.   A FBATM reed bed can improve the treatment capabilities of a traditional reed bed by up to 15 times thus allowing the reed beds to have a smaller footprint, and can be used for nitrification. FBATM has been used successfully in the US for a number of years for the treatment of hydrocarbons and glycols.  It is one of the ways in which ARM are making environmental advances to open up entirely new applications. ARM are currently developing a new series of nitrification products of which FBATM is one. ARM Reed Beds is the UK's sole supplier of FBATM  technology for waste water treatment.