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Measurement of aerobic organic matter «MB – BIOCOUNTER»

It is essential to monitor drinking, bathing and irrigation water because waterborne pathogens constitute one of the main risks to our health. Also, within the agri-food industry (i.e. washing vegetables water) this parameter becomes critical.

Online monitoring of the total microbiological concentration forms the backbone of health risk early detection systems, vital for safeguarding beaches from pollution, for example.

Rapid responses are vital to minimize the risks. It is not feasible to determine all types of aerobic microorganisms present in the analysed water due to the great variety of them, the high economic cost and the involved analysis time. WOLA’s solution is to detect the quantity of total microorganisms that allow us to know if the analysed water is adequate or not for a specific use. 

Innovative elements

Automated device for on-line monitoring to measure the total quantity of microorganisms concentration.

BIOCOUNTER has the following key features:

  • Automatic water monitoring
  • Eco-friendly usage.
  • Short analysis time (15 minutes) at low operational cost.
  • Online Control Interface: Access via mobile phone, website, tablet….
  • Warning -above parameter limits- samples capture for an eventual/utter analysis in a laboratory.
  • Self-cleaning device.
  • Regeneration of the sensor microorganism.
  • Excellent correlation with the classical analysis in laboratory «Petri dish»

Applications

BIOCOUNTER is a powerful and essential tool for sewage treatment plants, industries (pharmaceutical, chemical, etc.), irrigation, aquaponic, hydroponic, fish farming and aquaculture in their daily processes.

It is designed to detect fast and low operational cost for any microbial contamination in the food industry (beverage, dairy, etc.), and it is also an assistive technology for controlling a proper disinfection of ventilation circuits.

  • Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)
  • Beverage industry
  • AGRI-FOOD INDUSTRY

OPTIMIZE YOUR FISH FARM:
MONITORING BIOCHEMICAL – MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS IN “REAL TIME”

  • MB-BOD
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  • POLITOX-RES

 

Online Monitoring of essential parameters to know an optimize metabolic and microbiological processes in applications such as: Biofermenters, Fish farms, Obtaining metabolic bio-products, Bioreactors, Decontamination processes, Microbial Counting, Concentration of toxic effects, etc.

EUTROPHICATION PROCESS

Don’t take a risk in your fish farm: monitoring of Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD). Quantify the Total Water Toxicity and the concentration of aerobic living microorganisms in «real time» in your Fish-Farm and other water uses.

“Eutrophication is an enrichment of water by nutrient salts that causes structural changes to the ecosystem such as: increased production of algae and aquatic plants, depletion of fish species, general deterioration of water quality and other effects that reduce and preclude use” by the OECD

Software

Water eutrophication has to be monitored to control and protect the functional balance that guarantees a process (Fish-farms, rivers, wetlands, reservoirs, etc.) The information provided by the three analytical biosensors developed by WOLA makes it possible to monitor with efficacy the eutrophication.

CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE WATER USE – WWTW

A SOFTWARE DEVELOPPED SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS BIOSENSOR ALLOWS A REAL TIME MONITORING OF THE RESULTS.

You can know the contamination due to organic matter in water, and optimize the treatment process of your Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW), in order to obtain the best results.

With our MB-BOD water samples at an inlet (red) and outlet (blue) of a waste water treatment plant can be monitored.

GREENHOUSE EARLY WARNING SERVICE

MONITORING & WATER USE OPTIMIZATION

Greenhouse early warning service biosensors Water Quality online monitoring AQUAPONIC HYDROPONIC CROPS

Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning algorithms for:

  • Monitoring Water Quality
  • Damage detection
  • Detection of algae growth
  • Early warning
  • Reduction in operational costs
  • Cost reduction in avoiding yield failure

 Specific SOFTWARE and Hardware

Automatic devices for measure and monitor the Biological Oxygen Demand (MB-BOD), the concentration of aerobic living microorganisms (Biocounter) and Total Toxicity (POLITOX-RES) contained in waters.

Online Monitoring of the water quality from different sources ; WWTPs, industries, rivers, reservoirs, wells, lagoons etc. to be use safely in agricultural irrigation

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

RECYCLING GREY WATERS

STEP 1

Waste water from wash hand basins, showers, dishwashers and washing machines is collected and treated.

STEP 2

Recycled grey water can be used among other applications to wash cars, irrigate, even to flush toilets or for laundry use, etc

RESIDUAL ENERGY

REDUCTION OF COSTS

Improvement of  maintenance costs through the monitorization

REDUCTION OF ELECTRICITY

Used by aerobic bioreactors in waste water treatment works using our MB-BOD biosensor. Control and optimization of water purification processes in bioreactors Stations.

DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES

Low cost production of automated bioreactors for energy production through biomass fermentation.

ENERGY SAVING

Re-use of water and optimization of used water in industrial processes.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

OWN-DESIGNED SOFTWARE

BIOCOUNTER software shows accurately and in real time:

  • The concentration of microorganisms and the level of dissolved oxygen (DO)
  • The process step that is being carried out by the device at this moment.
  • The latest data collected in the previous analysis.
  • The remaining time for starting the next step.
  • The remaining time until the end of the analytical cycle.
  • A query history showing data results and charts.
Measuring principle O2 production of microbial enzyme reaction
Measuring range concentration 103 – 109 microorganisms/ml
Maximum temperature 35º C

MB-BIOCOUNTER VS CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES

MICROBIAL COUNTER PETRI PLATE CULTURE
Time of analysis 15 minutes 24 – 48 hours
Type of analysis Automatic Manual
Place of analysis On site Laboratory
Online monitoring Yes Not possible
Pollutant episodes identification – –
Cost of analysis 1€ 48€
Toxic water control – –
Reliability ++ ++
Feedback of results Yes No