Abstract: The present invention is directed to equipment, systems and methods for recovering nitrogen, potassium, phosphates and water from wastewater effluents. More particularly the invention discloses methods and equipments for treating waste streams to produce water that can be discharged to the environment and concentrated potassium ammonium struvite solid fertilizers.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to equipment, systems and methods for the biological removal of nitrogen from wastewater. The ammonium removal processes disclosed herein can be used in both batch and continuous flow biological reactors with real time control of nitrogen loading to effectively cultivate ammonium oxidizing bacteria alone, as well as in a mixture of ammonium oxidizing bacteria with anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria in a single bioreactor. Both batch and continuous flow biological reactors have a mean of separating solids retention time (SRT) of suspended nitrifying biomass from suspended anammox biomass.

Abstract: A system for saturating a liquid with a gas followed by bubble-less delivery and mixing of the gas-saturated liquid into a gas-unsaturated liquid wherein a biological process is occurring. The system comprises a gas-saturation unit which controllably communicates with a bioreactor unit containing a gas-unsaturated liquid wherein a biological process is occurring. The gas saturation unit comprises a sealable pressure-resistant vessel for receiving therein an unsaturated liquid and wherein the liquid is saturated with a gas under pressure. The rate of introduction of gas-saturated liquid into the bioreactor unit is controllable to make it equivalent to the rate of gas consumption by the biological process occurring in gas-unsaturated liquid contained within the bioreactor unit. The invention is particularly useful for bubble-less gas delivery to open and closed bioreactor configurations for wastewater treatment processes.