by ebs | Jun 6, 2025 | Biochemical Oxygen Demand, Nutrients
A common problem in aerated stabilization basins (ASBs) is oxygen deficiency. This can arise for a variety of reasons, such as a power outage, aerators being offline for maintenance, oxygen scavenging by sulfur-containing chemical compounds, or upstream production...
by ebs | Dec 12, 2023 | Outage, Weather
by ebs | Nov 15, 2021 | Training
EBS believes that monitoring the microbiology (biomass) of your activated sludge system or aerated stabilization basin (ASB) is just as critical as any other test such as pH, nutrients, total suspended solids (TSS), or chemical oxygen demand (COD). Often, the bacteria...
by ebs | Nov 13, 2016 | Bioaugmentation
Continual innovation is an important component of the EBS core value called “Simple yet Profound.” This core value is rooted in the fact that meaningfully applied technology doesn’t have to be rocket science. Over the years, EBS has pursued the cutting edge of...
by ebs | Jul 26, 2013 | Bioaugmentation, Featured, Mixed Liquor Suspended Solids
In the Kraft paper-making process white liquor, which is NaOH (sodium hydroxide) and Na2S (sodium sulfide), is used to “cook” wood chips in a piece of equipment known as the digester. In the digester, the wood chips are “cooked” using high temperature and pressure in...
