US Patent Issued to BL TECHNOLOGIES on May 13 for "Process and apparatus for nitritation using membrane aerated biofilm reactor" (Canadian, Italian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,132, issued on May 13, was assigned to BL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Process and apparatus for nitritation using membrane aerated biofilm reactor" was invented by John David Ireland (Oakville, Canada), Zebo Long (Oakville, Canada), Daniel Coutts (Milan), Dwight Cornelius Houweling (Oakville, Canada), Jeffrey Gerard Peeters (Oakville, Canada), Moreno Di Pofi (Milan) and Sven Baumgarten (Ratingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification describes a membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) and processes for nitritation, nitritation-denitritation or deammonification. The supply of oxygen through the gas-tran...