Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR)

Turbo Bio Reactor (TBR) is an advanced Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) technology based on specially designed plastic biofilm carriers (biocarriers) that are suspended and in continuous movement within a tank or reactor of a specified volume. The design of the associated aerators, grids, sieves, spray nozzles and other integral parts of the reactor is of great importance in making up the complete system. In our TBR technology we utilise biomedia laced with a bio-catalyst specific to various industrial effluents.

Industrial and municipal wastewater is led to the MBBR reactor where biofilm, growing within the internal structures of the biocarriers, degrades the pollutants — which are the food or substrate for the growth of the biofilm. The biocarrier design is critical due to the requirement for good mass transfer of substrate and oxygen to the microorganisms. Excess biofilm sloughs off the biocarrier naturally. Treated water flows from the reactor through a grid or sieve, which retains the biocarriers, and the reactors may be equipped with special spray nozzles that prevent excessive foam formation.