Headworks developed the ActiveMox™ process to treat wastewater for total nitrogen removal before discharge to confined receiving water bodies. This process ensures that concentrations of oxygen-depleting nutrients within these water bodies do not harm aquatic life.
ActiveMox™ is a single-stage ammonia and total nitrogen removal biofilm process based on the Moving Bed Bioreactor (MBBR) or Integrated Fixed-film Activated Sludge (IFAS) platform. It uses the ActiveCell™ media to nurture anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (Anammox) and ammonia-oxidizing-bacteria-enriched (AOB) biomass for applications involving sidestream de-ammonification.
From an operations and maintenance standpoint, ActiveMox™ is a simple and stable technology for treating centrate or filtrate from a conventional anaerobic digestion (AD) process or AD following a thermal hydrolysis process (THP).
The ActiveMox™ (PN/A Anammox) process removes nitrogen in a single reactor instead of multiple reactors in the traditional MLE process.