Many food and beverage manufacturers utilize aerobic biological treatment as a means of cleaning water used in the creation of consumer goods [more on Process]. Integration of Oberon’s process may provide significant value to these facilities. To find out if your facility's operational prospects can be improved by implementing Oberon's process, please fill out the partner interest form.
- Reduction or Elimination of Variable Costs:
- Energy: Oberon's process significantly decreases energy demand for blowers by removing cells from the process before they begin to oxidize.
- Solids Disposal: Oberon’s process eliminates waste sludge production and the resulting requirement for solids disposal - oftentimes through the increasingly threatened practice of land application. In contrast to land application, which involves the off-site transport of wet, biologically active material, Oberon’s process occurs entirely on-site and results in the production of a dry, fully stabilized ingredient for animal feeds.
- Avoidance of Fixed Costs:
- Increased Capacity: Oberon's process enables many facilities to recover existing treatment capacity, related either to basin volume or to blower operation, and thereby to avoid expensive upgrades.
- Anaerobic Pretreatment: Oberon's process seeks to maximize cellular yield, thereby avoiding expensive and operationally complex strategies to limit cellular production.
- Nutrient Removal: Oberon's process typically results in lower values for effluent nitrogen and phosphorus versus conventional treatment.
- Enhancement of Sustainability Initiatives:
- Increasingly, manufacturers of consumer products recognize the advantages of corporate stewardship and sustainability. The implementation of Oberon’s process results in a substantial improvement over current practice on many levels, including:
- Efficient use of by-product resources, perhaps in conjunction with a Zero Waste program;
- Decreased global carbon footprint resulting from: lower energy consumption, no solids digestion, and avoided solids transport; and
- Mitigated pressure on the marine environment and improvement of the fish-in to fish-out ratio in the aquaculture industry
- Increasingly, manufacturers of consumer products recognize the advantages of corporate stewardship and sustainability. The implementation of Oberon’s process results in a substantial improvement over current practice on many levels, including: