Recreational and amenity water
Lakes, lagoons, resort water, marinas, ornamental basins. This failure mode is public. Scum, then odour, then a sign on the gate, usually in the fortnight the asset earns its year.
Recreational · Commercial · Industrial
Treatment that travels to the asset.
Amenity lakes. Effluent lagoons. Beverage and process water. Cooling towers, condenser circuits, data centre loops. Desalination intakes and the fields their brine goes into. Fluid Nano mounts one oxidation and oxygenation stage four different ways and takes it to whichever of those is costing you money.
500,000
Toledo residents told not to drink the tap water when the 2014 Lake Erie bloom reached the intake
NOAA Fisheries
1 µg/L
The WHO provisional drinking-water guideline for microcystin-LR, the toxin a freshwater bloom leaves behind
WHO, 1998 guideline
~11×
Measured lift in gas–liquid mass transfer for nanobubble aeration at an identical delivered gas volume
Science of the Total Environment
The argument
Plants are built for flows. Your headache is a volume.
Water treatment has one dominant shape, and it is a flow. Something enters a plant at a rated capacity, passes through stages sized against that rating, and leaves to a specification. A hundred years of engineering sits behind it. For municipal supply it is the right answer and nobody should be trying to replace it.
It just does not describe the water that generates most operator pain. A raw water reservoir that goes anoxic under August stratification. A holding lagoon that starts to smell in the direction of the nearest housing. A tower basin and the circuit hanging off it. The half-kilometre of open sea a desalination plant draws through when a bloom drifts across it. A hotel lake with a sign on the jetty.
Those are volumes, not flows. Nothing about them can be routed through a building.
Fluid Nano inverts the arrangement. Gas conditioning, sub-micron bubble generation and a controlled oxidative stage are packaged to travel — a skid beside a loop, a pontoon on a lagoon, a hull on open water — and the duty is performed inside the volume, at the depth or the point in the circuit where the fault actually lives.
That is the premise. Everything else on this site is engineering in service of it.
What the system is for
Four duties, one treatment stage.
Process and product water
Beverage, food, wash-down and reclaim. Whatever reaches the first stage sets the duty on every stage after it, and a source that swings seasonally converts a stable process into a supervised one.
Cooling water and thermal loops
Towers, condensers, power station circuits, data centre cooling. Warm aerated water with nutrient in it grows biofilm, and biofilm is where most of a loop's chemical and blowdown budget actually goes.
Desalination intakes and discharges
Desal I/O. The approach water ahead of the screens and the receiving field behind the outfall. Neither sits inside the plant. Both stop it.
One stage, four mountings.
Fluid Nano is not a catalogue of products. It is a single treatment stage — read, condition, shear, oxidise, verify — carried on whatever will get it to your water.
Why that matters commercially
A site with a lagoon, a cooling circuit and an intake usually runs three contracts, three chemistries, three consumable streams and three reporting formats, none of which agree with each other.
Collapsing that into one instrumented stage is easier to audit, easier to compare year on year, and far easier to defend in a capital review.
The mechanism
Delivery, not supply.
Aerating anything large has never been limited by how much gas you can bring to it. The limit is what fraction of that gas dissolves instead of venting.
Shear gas below roughly a micron and the fraction changes. The bubbles are too small for buoyancy to govern them, they hold a negative surface charge that stops them merging back into big ones, and the same volume of gas ends up spread across an enormously larger interface. Work in Science of the Total Environment put the resulting gas–liquid mass transfer coefficient at about eleven times that of ordinary bubbles carrying an identical gas volume.
That ratio is what makes a portable stage arithmetically possible. Hang a diffuser in a lagoon and most of the energy goes into talking to the sky.
Oxygen alone will not clear organic load. Where the water carries bloom material, biofilm precursors or dissolved organics, an oxidative stage reaches what aeration cannot.
Reassurances
Five things Fluid Nano will not do.
Every plant manager, environment officer and procurement lead asks some version of these in the first hour. One of the five is unflattering to us, and it stays on the list anyway.
- No consumable chemistry joins your inventory. The input is gas, and there is no residue to schedule for disposal at the end of a run.
- Nothing needs emptying, lining or isolating first. The asset stays in service while the stage works it.
- An oxidative stage is never left open in bromide-bearing water. Ozone attacks bromide around eighty-three times harder than chloride, and bromate is what follows if dose and contact time are not held down deliberately.
- We are not selling catchment management. USGS modelling of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya finds agriculture the largest source of the nitrogen and phosphorus arriving in the Gulf. What lands in your reservoir comes off land you do not own.
- There is no headline percentage for your loop, your lagoon or your intake, because nobody has ever published one. Yours comes out of a calibration run or it does not exist.
The current question
Data centre cooling, and the number we are not going to give you.
Cooling water became a boardroom subject roughly eighteen months ago, and every supplier in this trade now arrives holding a percentage. We are not holding one.
What is defensible: a cooling circuit is warm, aerated and carries nutrient, which makes it hospitable to biofilm, and biofilm drives most of the chemical, energy and blowdown penalty in the loop. Raising dissolved oxygen through the whole volume is a different intervention from raising it at a surface. A controlled oxidative stage acts directly on the dissolved organic material biofilm assembles from. Those are mechanisms, and the transfer physics under them is published.
What is not defensible, and what you should refuse from anyone offering it before they have seen your data: a cycles figure, a chemical-spend reduction, a make-up saving or an approach-temperature gain. Each of those depends on your make-up chemistry, your metallurgy, your load profile and the programme you already run.
So the offer is narrower and duller. One circuit, a fixed window, your fouling indicators, the failure condition written down before anything is switched on.
On the record
The freshwater result is the one that applies here.
In 2018 NCCOS, NOAA's coastal science arm, published a validation of an ozone nanobubble aeration rig working an eight-acre pond outside Fort Myers Beach in Florida. Algae gone inside two days. Oxygen restored on the way out, and nothing in the pond visibly worse for the treatment.
Fresh water, pond scale, the exact class of stressor a lake or lagoon operator walks in with. Of everything published on this technology, it is the closest thing to what Fluid Nano does for a living.
It is also not us. The rig NCCOS tested was called NABAS and belonged to somebody else. It puts a floor under the approach. It says nothing whatsoever about our skid on your water, and we are not going to imply otherwise.
48 hours
To complete elimination of algae on an eight-acre Florida freshwater pond, with reoxygenation and no apparent harm to aquatic life
NOAA NCCOS, September 2018
2 mg/L
Dissolved oxygen below this and most aquatic life in a reservoir or basin cannot be supported
NOAA NCCOS
The rest of the evidence, contested parts included, is laid out on the system page.
Where it goes to work
Lakes, loops, intakes, outfalls.
Lakes and lagoons
Amenity water where a bloom, an odour or a closure notice turns into a revenue event inside a week.
Desalination intakes
Approach water and discharge fields, where organic loading decides whether a plant holds capacity or throttles.
Ports and industrial basins
Enclosed working water carrying heat, organics and traffic in the same slow-flushing basin.
Elsewhere in the system family
SeaBreather
The base platform. Dissolved oxygen restored at coastal scale.
HABslayer
Harmful algal blooms and organic toxins, taken on in the column.
NanoponiX
Oxygenated irrigation, including on brackish and saline ground.
SoilScrubber
Dried lakebed and salt crust, held down before the wind takes it.
Immediate, Significant, Scaled
Describe the asset, not the technology.
Which body or circuit, what fails, which months, and what the failure costs you. Alarivean replies with a read on that specific water, including the cases where the answer is that we are the wrong tool.