The Fluidized aerobic Bioreactor (FAB) is an advance hybrid biological system primarily designed to reduce the footprint area required and to make effortless installation and trouble free operation while increasing the treatment efficiency.

Most of attached growth process has the media packing fixed in reactor tank and wastewater passed the biofilm . However the FAB process calls for the media is moving inside the reactor continuosly. Air bubbles through diffused aeration and influent wastewater keeps the media in fluidized condition. FAB is an advanced high –efficient, compact biological wastewater treatment process with ease of operation. It is designed to treat any organic waste stream amenable to biological treatment, mainly for BOD removal including domestic wastewater but it can also be applied (for removal of nitrogen)to improve volumetric nitrification rates and to accomplish denitrification in aeration tanks by having anoxic zones within the bio-film depth.

The typical FAB process consists of pretreatment like screening followed by one or more FAB tanks, where the degradation process of soluble matter takes place and the final stage of the treatment is normally particle separation. The FAB tank consists of various components such as earators , spray nozzles, bio-media, grids/sieves, and other integral parts, which makes it a complete successful system. The wastewater after primary settling or screening flows directly in to the FAB reactor through pumping or under gravity.

In this system the organic pollutants of wastewater are decomposed with the help of both attached & suspended growth microorganisms. The COOLFloat polypropylene media used as a medium for the attached bio growth occupies around 30-50% of the tank volume. The rest of the portion of the reactor is utilized for suspended growth aeration system. This lightweight media (of density 0.97gm/cc) is in constant circular motion trough out the tank due to diffused aeration system placed at the bottom.

The perforated aeration grid is mounted at the bottom of the reactor tank and connected to high efficiency blower, to produce fine air bubbles to fulfill the desired oxygen requirements for aerobic treatment. The upward air current keeps media in continues floating movement in the wastewater and thoroughly mix it throughout the tank. As the microorganisms are retained in the tank for the longer period this helps in maintaining the sufficient MLSS concentrator in the tank. This also eliminates the need of recycling of the return sludge. The maintained MLSS concentration helps the system to handle shock loads, keeps sludge generation low and a mineralized one.

• Pure FAB reactor

• Combination of FAB and Activated sludge process

• Pure FAb followed by Activated sludge process.

Deployment of new plants or upgrading existing plants simply involves deployment of the FAB media without the need for supporting structures. In addition there is no need to remove the media or empty the tank to attend air treatment.