Materials and methods for degrading a microcystin compound, and filtering microcystin from water, are described.

A system for transferring marine life within an aquaculture facility including a plurality of segregated storage facilities each containing water for marine life, maintained within a predetermined temperature range and supported at independent ground levels. The storage facilities are successively disposed and structured to contain marine life at different stages of growth. A transfer assembly includes a path of fluid flow interconnecting successive ones of said plurality of storage facilities in fluid communication with one another, wherein at least a majority of a length of said path of fluid flow is disposed beneath the independent ground levels at a predetermined depth, which is sufficient to facilitate maintenance of the path of fluid flow within the predetermined temperature range, via geothermal cooling.

A system and method is provided for water and wastewater treatment. The system comprises a fixed film biological process and a ballasted flocculation process.

A biological reactor system treats concentrated contaminated water with a combination of upflow and downflow bioreactors that are downstream from a reverse osmosis or other concentrator. The system may have a fail safe configuration where flush water may be introduced to the reactors in the event of a power failure or when taking the reactors offline. Many reverse osmosis systems introduce antiscalant treatments upstream so that the reverse osmosis filters do not scale. However, such treatments result in superconcentrated conditions of the antiscalants in the contaminated water processed by the bioreactors. A flushing system may deconcentrate the bioreactors to prevent the antiscalants from precipitating and fouling the bioreactors.

A system and method of treating wastewater. In one embodiment, the system comprises a biological reactor fluidly connected to a source of wastewater and having a treated wastewater outlet, a fixed film biological reactor connected to the source of wastewater and having a fixed film effluent outlet, and a ballasted system fluidly connected to the fixed film effluent outlet. The ballasted system may comprise a ballast reactor tank configured to provide a ballasted effluent, and a source of ballast material fluidly connected to an inlet of the ballast reactor tank. The system may further comprise a bypass line having an inlet fluidly connected to the source of wastewater, a first outlet fluidly connected to the ballasted system, and a second outlet fluidly connected to the fixed film biological reactor, the bypass line configured to bypass the fixed film biological reactor.

An aerobic biological treatment apparatus includes a reaction tank (tank body), a water permeation plate horizontally installed in a lower part of the reaction tank, a large-diameter particle layer formed on an upper side of the water permeation plate, a small-diameter particle layer formed on an upper side of the large-diameter particle layer, an oxygen dissolution membrane module disposed on an upper side of the small-diameter particle layer, a receiving chamber formed on a lower side of the water permeation plate, a raw water dispersion pipe supplying raw water into the receiving chamber, a diffuser pipe installed to perform gas diffusion in the receiving chamber and the like. A condensed water drainage pipe branches from an exhaust pipe from the oxygen dissolution membrane module, and a valve is provided.

A system for wastewater treatment includes a container placeable in the fluid within a wastewater treatment vessel. The container comprises an inlet into which fluid from the treatment vessel can flow. In operation, compressed air is provided to aerate fluid within the container and vented from the container in such a way that fluid in the vessel external to the container does not receive aeration. Substrate within the container provides biomedia for treating wastewater. The user controls the operation of a pump that transports fluid from inside the container into fluid in the vessel external to the container. Concomitantly, fluid from outside the container flows in though the container's inlet. Thereby, the system continuously treats wastewater with aeration, intermixing treated and untreated wastewater.

Aeration systems and kits for aeration systems are disclosed. Methods of making and using aeration systems and kits for aeration systems are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for intensive recirculating aquaculture are provided herein. An example system includes water sourced from a first segment of a saline aquifer, a recirculating aquaculture system receiving the sourced water and producing discharge water, and a water discharge point located within second segment of the saline aquifer disposed below the first segment of the saline aquifer.

System (1) for the biological treatment of wastewater comprising a tank (10) comprising a point for the entry (11) of water to be treated and a point for the exit (12) of treated water; a rotating drum (20) defining an internal volume, said drum being capable of rotating about a horizontal shaft (200) and having a wall (21) that is at least partly permeable to water, said rotating drum being disposed the tank and being intended for partial submersion in the water contained in the tank, less than half of its internal volume bathing in the water contained in the tank; a driving means (30, 31, 32) intended for driving the drum in rotation along the horizontal shaft; free media (15), having a surface suited to the development of a biofilm, disposed within the drum (20) and retained by the wall of this drum, the free media occupying a volume ranging from 30% to 80% of the internal volume of the rotating drum; at least one hollow tube (40) extending in parallel to the horizontal shaft fixed to the wall of the rotating drum within the drum, the hollow tube having a perforated longitudinal section comprising a set of orifices distributed homogeneously throughout the length of the hollow tube, the hollow tube being designed to get filled alternately with water and with air when the rotating drum, partially submerged in the water contained in the tank, is put into rotation in a given sense.