TECHNOCON GmbH
TECHNOCON
Experts and technology provider
of high performance bioreactors
for wastewater treatment plants
and digestion plants
ABOUT US
TECHNOCON was founded by Professor Alfons Vogelpohl, at that time head of the Department of Thermal Process Engineering at the Technical University of Clausthal, to achieve a technology transfer of newly developed bioreactors from labratory scale to big-scale treatment plants.
In TECHNOCON, we look forward to a mutually beneficial business relationship. Therefore, we maintain a side-by-side work philosophy from the project's conception until its completion. As a result, since the mid-1990s, our licensing partners have successfully constructed around 100 plants in 20 countries worldwide - for both the aerobic biological treatment of industrial wastewater and landfill leachate, and the anaerobic biological treatment of sewage sludge, manure, and food waste.
OUR SERVICES
- Consulting and engineering for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants
- Consulting and engineering for municipal and industrial digestion plants
- Research and development of optimized technologies
- Pilot tests
- License partnerships for our technologies of high performance bioreactors
AEROBIC TREATMENT OF WASTEWATER
Clausthal Jet Reactor
The Clausthal Jet Reactor (CJR) is, due to its high efficient oxygen transfer, an optimized bioreactor for the aerobic treatment of high concentrated wastewater. It can be used for COD removal and also for nitrification.
The CJR is a tower type biological reactor for aerobic wastewater treatment and it works according to the activated sludge principle. The characteristic equipment of a CJR is the special two-phase-jet-nozzle, which creates a downstream of the liquid phase, a fine dispersion of the biomass, a suction of the air, the formation of fine air bubbles and a high oxygen mass transfer.
Advantages:
- High oxygen transfer rate up to 3 kg O2/m³ h
- High COD loading rate of appox. 25 kg COD/m³ d
- High oxygen utization rate of approx. 60%
- Reactor volume up to 10 times smaller than conventional aeration basins
- Small space requirement
- References for a lot of different industrial wastewaters in several countries
ANAEROBIC TREATMENT OF ORGANIC WASTE
High Performance Digester
The High Performance Digester (HPD) is, due to its high efficient biokinetic, an optimized bioreactor for the anaerobic treatment of organic wast like sewage sludge, manure and food waste.
The HPD is a tower type biological reactor for digestion plants and it works according to an upstream plug-flow process, which leads to a significant higher degradation velocity compared to totally mixed reactors. The characteristic equipment of a HPD is the impulse mixing system consisting of a special external pump and interal perforated sheets. This impulse mixing system creates a good dispersion of the biomass and the biowaste and a separation of the produced biogas.
Advantages:
- Low hydraulic retention time of down to 5 days at minimum
- High organic loading rate of up to 10 kg VS/m³ d at maximum
- High biogas yield of up to 12.5 m³/m³ d
- Reactor volume 3 to 5 times smaller than conventional digesters
- Small space requirement
- Sediment discharge system, longterm operation without emptying
- References for digestion plants in several countries
