By Heather Jennings, PE The great teeter-totter of wastewater is the nitrification and denitrification cycle in activated sludge wastewater systems. It takes both to convert ammonia to nitrogen gas! Both processes feed off of and support each other but, in some ways, they have competing needs. Nitrification consists of ripping off the hydrogen in ammonia and adding oxygen
By Heather Jennings, PE Today we are going to focus on nitrifiers, those wastewater treatment autotrophs that get energy from oxidizing ammonia. (Autotrophs are microorganisms that produce complex organic compounds using inorganic carbon from simple substances as a food source.) Oxidizing ammonia is a fancy way of saying ripping off hydrogens to stick oxygens onto
Way too many growers are wasting agrochemical products or making products ineffective or even dangerous due to improper mixing. In Episode 8 of The Huma Gro Farmer Podcast we interview Dr. Mojtaba Zaifnejad, BHN Senior Director of Field Research and Technical Services, and Mr. Jason Garcia, BHN Florida Sales Manager and Agronomist, regarding best
Fifty years ago today, on April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans took to the streets to protest environmental destruction and to celebrate the wonders of Planet Earth. The basic message was that we had to find new ways to live our lives, raise our food, and conduct our businesses that were environmentally friendly and sustainable—that
Try our Probiotic Solutions® products before considering building a new treatment plant. Probiotic Solutions® products are used successfully in wastewater treatment systems to improve water quality and reduce operating costs. Continue reading
Probiotic Solutions® products are manufactured with our exclusive, proprietary Micro Carbon Technology® that consists of very small carbon-rich molecules. These ultra-fine molecules help efficiently reduce biosolids, improve settleability and promote dissolved oxygen. Continue reading
The Probiotic Solutions® family of products comes from Bio Huma Netics, Inc., a company that values mission over margin. Our mission is to “provide technologically advanced and ecologically sustainable quality products and services that replenish the earth by restoring water quality, reviving soil fertility, renewing food and fiber value, and refocusing engineered technologies—while minimizing human
Bio Huma Netics, Inc. (BHN), hosted its 2016 World Conference on October 25–28 in the cities of Mesa and Gilbert, Arizona. This edition of the biannual Conference had over 150 attendees from 20 countries representing distributors, customers, and staff from BHN’s product lines of Huma Gro®, Huma Gro® Turf, and Probiotic Solutions®. Continue reading
By Heather Jennings, PE, Senior Project Engineer for Probiotic Solutions® I was attending a wastewater conference and overheard an operator talking about how a drug bust turned his lagoon orange and almost put him out of compliance with his permit. At another location, I was told that the city I was visiting had been hit by
The technology Kamen used to develop the Freestyle Coca-Cola soda fountain is similar to that in his prescription pumps.1 By Jael Batty When Kamen asked Coke for help distributing his water purifier, Coke challenged Kamen to develop a better soda fountain first. Dean Kamen, Inventor of Medical Technology The inventor of the Segway,
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