Editor's Note: Innovation was a big theme at WEFTEC 2014. We'll be featuring a few of the new and better technologies found in the exhibit hall at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Watch each day for the Innovation logo to learn more about new products displayed at the clean-water industry’s flagship exhibition and conference.

Ostara announced the WASSTRIP (Waste-Activated Sludge Stripping to Recover Internal Phosphorus) process designed to boost nutrient recovery capacity in the company’s Pearl process while helping treatment plants that practice biological phosphorus removal to reduce biosolids production and improve digester performance. The process optimizes efficiency in bio-P plants by releasing phosphorus and magnesium before they reach the digester. The nutrients are diverted to the thickening liquor and combined with dewatering liquor so they can be recovered for reuse in the Pearl reactor, eliminating struvite buildup in the system. The company says the technology can:

• Reduce overall biosolids production by up to 20 percent.
• Increase cake solids content by up to 4 percent.
• Reduce total phosphorus in remaining biosolids by nearly 10 percent.
• Reduced water-soluble phosphorus in biosolids by 70 percent.
• Reduce dependence on coagulants and flocculants.
• Reduce struvite formation in digesters.

For more information, visit www.ostara.com.