Enhanced Safety & BNR: FL WWTP Migrates from Methanol to Non-Hazardous MicroC® 2000

The Florida municipal wastewater treatment plant using methanol for many years as the supplemental carbon source needed to support denitrification for biological nitrogen removal(BNR) was faced with upgrading their aging methanol facility and equipment. Methanol’s inherent safety and toxicity risks typically involve expensive capital infrastructure and equipment, and strict regulatory requirements regarding storage, handling, and minimizing environmental impact.

Faced with safety risk, high upgrade cost, and low efficiency of continuing with methanol as a carbon source, treatment plant operators chose instead to switch to a safer, non-flammable supplemental carbon source: EOSi’s MicroC®2000. Supporting both denitrification and biological phosphorus removal, non-hazardous MicroC 2000 eliminates flammability and toxicity concerns of using methanol, delivers substantial capital cost savings over flammable liquid storage and feed systems, and enables rapid and flexible deployment of advanced carbon augmentation solutions.