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MAX. Concentration Nanobubbles MIN. Consumption
Axbold is a water security company that builds and operates in-situ inspiration systems. The Axbold Guardian floats on the water body it treats and infuses ozone, oxygen or air as nanobubbles at 220 million per mL, operating on 2.7 kWh.
Seven kinds of water problem, one capability. Aquaculture, treatment, remediation, mining, sterilization, toxins — and whatever you inspire next.
Water security bought as a program, not a box. Proactive, Emergent and Embedded, custom crafted for effective, practical, sustainable outcomes.
Equipment that infuses oxygen, ozone or other gas into seawater, freshwater and other liquid — in situ, on a floating platform, with two moving parts.
Water threats
Runoff moves nutrients, metals and hydrocarbons into surface water faster than the receiving water body can process them, at a cost the US EPA puts at $1.1 billion to states. The load arrives at the water, not at a plant inlet, which is where it has to be met.
Over 2,300 lakes and rivers are contaminated by nutrient loading that feeds algae faster than the system can clear it. A surface bloom does not end at the surface — algae, dead zones, sediments and sludge are all part of the same problem, and the sediment and sludge outlast the visible bloom.
Without oxygen, aquatic life dies. Dissolved oxygen falls first below the surface layer, so stock, biomass and habitat are lost at depth while the top of the water column still reads normal.
Poisoning the well is an age-old war tactic, and the modern equivalent is a reservoir, an intake or a process pond rather than a well. Response speed decides the outcome, which favors a portable system that can be deployed in situ onto the affected water directly.
Solution
Axbold nanobubbles carry one or more gases, and the gas feed determines what levels of oxidation, aeration, and biologic benefits the water receives.
Ozone
Ozone nanobubbles shred toxins, eviscerating them at the functional group level rather than binding, settling or diluting them. This is the mode used against stubborn contaminants such as heavy metals like selenium and arsenic, viruses, bacteria, surfactants, grease and plastic leachate, at up to 368 grams per minute of ozone, subject to generation capability.
Oxygen
Oxygen nanobubbles improve oxygen transfer efficiency by 80,000 times. Bubbles averaging 76 nm stay in solution for months instead of rising out of it, so dissolved oxygen holds throughout the water column rather than at the surface, at up to 245 grams per minute of oxygen, subject to generation capability.
Air
Natural air nanobubbles activate aerobic growth for healthier water, restoring the biology that works through sediment and sludge without chemical dosing. Gas throughput runs at 90% mass transfer into the fluid, and by mass the platform delivers 222 grams per minute of air.
Energy Savings Program
Aeration is typically the largest single electrical load in a biological treatment plant, and an oversized, fixed-speed fleet carries it around the clock. On a large industrial tariff that fleet is billed twice: once for the kilowatt-hours it consumes, and again for the peak kilowatts it sets.
Axbold Guardian
220M
Nanobubbles Per mL
Roughly one billion per teaspoon
76 nm
Average Bubble Size
NanoSight nanoparticle tracking analysis
2.7 kWh
Energy Consumption
Platform on natural air, 79% less than conventional nanobubble units
90%
Gas Mass Transfer
Into the fluid, not out to atmosphere
In the water
Desalus facilities integrate Axbold water security services. Desalus is a water & food security company that makes clean water and pure fertilizer from its zero-waste water treatment services offered to brackish water stewards including mines, municipalities and more. To address serious water and food security in challenging areas, Desalus relies on Axbold for important pre-treatment capabilities. That pre-treatment duty is the same capability described under mining and process water, water treatment and wastewater sterilization. Visit Desalus
A California golf course's water healed in 80 days with 1 Axbold Guardian on 1 of 5 ponds. That is remediation and mitigation duty, run as an Emergent program on one pond before anything wider is committed.
At a winery where more than ten years of attempted remedies had failed, one nanobubble unit was set on a single wastewater pond in September 2015. Soluble COD fell from about 3,000 mg/L at the start to 322 mg/L, clearing the 400 mg/L irrigation-reuse limit that applied to the site.
These sites feature the same platform. Gas throughput is 171.9 LPM (45.4 GPM) with 90% mass transfer into the fluid. What separates a golf course pond from a pre-treatment stage inside a zero-waste treatment service or a winery's wastewater pond is the gas selected and how long the systems run, not the equipment.
Solutions
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Tell us about the water body, the contaminant and the constraint. We will tell you what an Axbold program would do about it.