What is Biotreatment (Bioaugmentation)?
It is the addition of certain strains of bacteria to a treatment system in order to enhance the performance of the system. Biotreatment can be a very effective cost-saving tool when the right bacteria are added for specific purposes. Sometimes strains which are already present are “boosted” so that nutrient competition between beneficial and non-beneficial bacteria becomes more balanced toward the good. This is usually accomplished by the addition of laboratory-enriched strains of bacteria in a certain dose over time. In other cases, biotreatment is used to introduce strains of bacteria that aren’t present in the indigenous biomass.
