WaterRR's Partner Technologies
Our Collaborative Technology Partnerships
WaterRR and our partners are creating a paradigm shift in large lake management using best-in-class technologies.
Aeration innovators, Environmental Compliance Equipment, LLC, distribute commercially proven nano-bubble technology. We build the most advanced, portable, flexible, and affordable algae removal system by integrating BioHaven Floating Islands with cutting-edge aeration products — nanobubble technology.
The removal of key nutrients from compromised water is accelerated by joining BioHaven technology with Intrinsyx Environmental’s scientifically-bred hyperaccumulator plants, tested and proven to be the most efficient for removing targeted pollutants from water. Our partners are experts in the combined use of plants and endophytes for accelerating removal rates of parameters of concern. Their work ranges from nutrient removal to removal of heavy metals and sulfites.
Below is more information about each of these partner technologies:
Aeration innovators, Environmental Compliance Equipment, LLC, distribute commercially proven nano-bubble technology. We build the most advanced, portable, flexible, and affordable algae removal system by integrating BioHaven Floating Islands with cutting-edge aeration products — nanobubble technology.
The removal of key nutrients from compromised water is accelerated by joining BioHaven technology with Intrinsyx Environmental’s scientifically-bred hyperaccumulator plants, tested and proven to be the most efficient for removing targeted pollutants from water. Our partners are experts in the combined use of plants and endophytes for accelerating removal rates of parameters of concern. Their work ranges from nutrient removal to removal of heavy metals and sulfites.
Below is more information about each of these partner technologies:
Nano-Bubbler Technology
Nanobubbles have gained critical acceptance for their ability to transfer oxygen throughout the water column, providing the most effective aeration technology available. Nano-bubble aerators can readily be mounted to the BioHaven platform and powered by the solar panels. Operating multiple units in areas far from the grid is a simple task for Solar NanoHaven platforms.
Here’s how nanobubbles work: nano-bubbles are micro-tiny, and sink and shrink for several days, finally breaking apart at depth and releasing the usable dissolved oxygen into the water. Generated by machine, they are neutrally buoyant, and will penetrate a lake or pond's bottom, aerating it. This means that employing nature's wetland effect to fix water has taken a long step forward.
Surface area and aeration are the two cornerstones of a healthy pond. Aeration comes in many forms, often as a fountain or a diffuser. These aerators do add oxygen to the water but most of it is lost to the atmosphere when the bubbles rise through the water column to the surface. Nanobubbles, on the other hand, do not rise; they stay suspended or even sink in the water column until they shrink and leave their entire gas loading behind.
It is exciting and potentially disruptive. It is a perfect marriage of efficiency. BioHaven Floating Islands provide surface area. Nanobubbles provide circulation/aeration. Together they can make beautiful, clean, natural bodies of water.
Whole-pond improvement
Nanobubble aeration reaches down to the sediments, where the inventory of excess nutrients is stored. Oxygen is needed by microbes to break down these sediments and remove the nutrients that would otherwise cause algal blooms. Dissolved oxygen (DO) is maintained throughout the water column and contributes to high pond turnover. A nano-bubbler can inject 1,000,000,000 nano-bubbles into one cubic centimeter (or 1 ml. of water). It looks like steam or a vapor trail to the naked eye.
Nanobubbles are generated using various methods. The patented nanobubbler technology we install on our island provides the most efficient process to generate the smallest nanobubble at the largest concentration.
When the nanobubbles implode they release OH- (Hydroxyl radical) which in turn offers remedial oxidation potential that cleans contamination while also releasing additional localized oxygen from the water molecules. It has also been observed that the nanobubble will penetrate silts, soils and sediments found on lake bottoms. Lake bottoms are slowly restored as dissolved oxygen levels rise, organic matter is reduced, and aquaculture begins to re-grow.
Here’s how nanobubbles work: nano-bubbles are micro-tiny, and sink and shrink for several days, finally breaking apart at depth and releasing the usable dissolved oxygen into the water. Generated by machine, they are neutrally buoyant, and will penetrate a lake or pond's bottom, aerating it. This means that employing nature's wetland effect to fix water has taken a long step forward.
Surface area and aeration are the two cornerstones of a healthy pond. Aeration comes in many forms, often as a fountain or a diffuser. These aerators do add oxygen to the water but most of it is lost to the atmosphere when the bubbles rise through the water column to the surface. Nanobubbles, on the other hand, do not rise; they stay suspended or even sink in the water column until they shrink and leave their entire gas loading behind.
It is exciting and potentially disruptive. It is a perfect marriage of efficiency. BioHaven Floating Islands provide surface area. Nanobubbles provide circulation/aeration. Together they can make beautiful, clean, natural bodies of water.
Whole-pond improvement
Nanobubble aeration reaches down to the sediments, where the inventory of excess nutrients is stored. Oxygen is needed by microbes to break down these sediments and remove the nutrients that would otherwise cause algal blooms. Dissolved oxygen (DO) is maintained throughout the water column and contributes to high pond turnover. A nano-bubbler can inject 1,000,000,000 nano-bubbles into one cubic centimeter (or 1 ml. of water). It looks like steam or a vapor trail to the naked eye.
Nanobubbles are generated using various methods. The patented nanobubbler technology we install on our island provides the most efficient process to generate the smallest nanobubble at the largest concentration.
When the nanobubbles implode they release OH- (Hydroxyl radical) which in turn offers remedial oxidation potential that cleans contamination while also releasing additional localized oxygen from the water molecules. It has also been observed that the nanobubble will penetrate silts, soils and sediments found on lake bottoms. Lake bottoms are slowly restored as dissolved oxygen levels rise, organic matter is reduced, and aquaculture begins to re-grow.
Hyperaccumulator Plants
Intrinsyx exploits the power of plants to take up harmful substances into their roots and tissues and either store or degrade them safely. Assisted by root microbes and endophytes—microbes living inside plants—they clean up some of the most challenging toxic sites and waters. Years of development have bred or identified the best-in-class plants to “hyper accumulate” a particular contaminant, and extensive testing has proven and refined the capabilities of these hyperaccumulator plants for their purpose.
Intrinsyx exclusively licensed collection of unique native endophytic bacterial strains treat groundwater, Superfund sites and retired military sites, brownfield sites, mine tailings, bio-solids, industrial and municipal effluents (sewage, storm water), surface water runoff (agriculture, mining, land development), and land for redevelopment.
Intrinsyx's technology and success with highly toxic sites have recently received acclaim in The New York Times, Scientific American, and Sustain Magazine. Their clients include the NASA Ames Restoration Group, NASA Earth Sciences and Forestry division, the University of Washington, USDA-ARS, and USGS.
Intrinsyx primary resources are a multidisciplinary team of highly diverse, globally recognized senior professional scientists in the fields of phytoremediation, phytomining, mycology, microbiology, phytoforensics, and plant biotechnology. They are a world-class science and engineering team serious about environmental remediation and passionate about their work.
Intrinsyx exclusively licensed collection of unique native endophytic bacterial strains treat groundwater, Superfund sites and retired military sites, brownfield sites, mine tailings, bio-solids, industrial and municipal effluents (sewage, storm water), surface water runoff (agriculture, mining, land development), and land for redevelopment.
Intrinsyx's technology and success with highly toxic sites have recently received acclaim in The New York Times, Scientific American, and Sustain Magazine. Their clients include the NASA Ames Restoration Group, NASA Earth Sciences and Forestry division, the University of Washington, USDA-ARS, and USGS.
Intrinsyx primary resources are a multidisciplinary team of highly diverse, globally recognized senior professional scientists in the fields of phytoremediation, phytomining, mycology, microbiology, phytoforensics, and plant biotechnology. They are a world-class science and engineering team serious about environmental remediation and passionate about their work.
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Intrinsyx and BioHaven technology collaboration:
Planted on Biohaven Floating Islands, Intrinsyx resilient, robust, high-biomass plants and trees hyperaccumulate nitrogen, phosphorus, and many heavy metals/metalloids. Each installation is carefully designed using a mix of native and non-invasive species that form a resilient microcosm tailored to the local environment. Intrinsyx leverages high biomass cultivars with improved tolerance to salt, boron, and organics contamination, allowing them to flourish in harsh environments and quickly produce massive root systems under the Floating Island. Recalcitrant chemicals and legacy contaminants can be removed from the water cycle. Intrinsyx uses its collection of specialized plants and pollutant-degrading endophyte inoculants to efficiently remove a broad range of contaminants from soil, groundwater, and surface water. |
Willows were the first hyperaccumulator plants to be tested by Intrinsyx on a BioHaven Floating Island. They produced excellent growth, above and below the waterline.
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The BioHaven Floating Island/Intrinsix hyperaccumulator combination addresses:
Nutrients are removed via hyperaccumulating grass species and microbes mobilizing phosphate & nitrate —this combination can soak up nutrients delivered in burst loads of stormwater and quickly improve water quality in nutrient-impaired surface waters.
- Chlorinated solvents (TCE, PCE, vinyl chloride)
- PCBs, dioxin, furans
- Oil and gas derivatives (PAHs, TPH, BTEX, fuel)
- Heavy metals/metalloids
- Explosives (TNT, RDX, HMX)
Nutrients are removed via hyperaccumulating grass species and microbes mobilizing phosphate & nitrate —this combination can soak up nutrients delivered in burst loads of stormwater and quickly improve water quality in nutrient-impaired surface waters.
Biochar Now
In addition, we are partnering with BioChar Now, a producer of a form of biochar with significant adsorptive characteristics. Biochar ties up suspended particles in water. After adsorption, the biochar can be removed from the water, and with it, nutrients, like phosphorus and ammonia, a form of nitrogen.
BioChar is a realistic means by which to sequester carbon from a vast range of biomass, including forms of biomass that are problematic, that represent massive waste disposal problems. And biochar also ties up suspended particles in water. They adsorb onto it, and can be harvested, removed from the water. The material produced by BioChar Now is being tested at our headquarters in Shepherd, Montana, and is also being integrated into wastewater settings.
BioChar is a realistic means by which to sequester carbon from a vast range of biomass, including forms of biomass that are problematic, that represent massive waste disposal problems. And biochar also ties up suspended particles in water. They adsorb onto it, and can be harvested, removed from the water. The material produced by BioChar Now is being tested at our headquarters in Shepherd, Montana, and is also being integrated into wastewater settings.