Microvi Restores Critical Community Drinking Water for the City of San Juan Bautista

The Microvi MNE treatment system will allow the city to ensure a supply of clean drinking water in a region that has seen consistently high levels of nitrate in their water sources. Nitrate is one of the most widespread contaminants in groundwater globally, and its human health impacts are disproportionately felt in rural communities where groundwater contamination with agricultural runoff is pervasive.

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Ameen Razavi
Microvi Announces Strategic Collaboration with Murraysmith + Quincy in the United States

Microvi is teaming up with Murraysmith + Quincy to deliver high-quality drinking water through its MicroNiche Engineering™ (MNE) solution to more communities in the United States. With contaminants such as ammonia, nitrate, perchlorate, chlorinated solvents, 1,4-dioxane, and many others threatening public health and environmental sustainability, engineers need to embed water treatment infrastructure with affordable and reliable purification technology.

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Ameen Razavi
Microvi Commissions First Commercial Sidestream Treatment System in the U.S. Pacific Coast Region at the Oro Loma/Castro Valley Sanitary Districts’ 12 MGD Treatment Plant

Microvi and Oro Loma/Castro Valley Sanitary Districts (OLSD/CVSan) are pleased to announce the commissioning of the first dewatered filtrate (sidestream) treatment system in the Pacific Coast Region of the United States. This full-scale 12 million-gallons-per-day (MGD) plant utilizes Microvi’s MNE technology to reduce OLSD’s nitrogen discharge to the San Francisco Bay by up to 400,000 pounds (lbs) per year.

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Ameen Razavi
Microvi Awarded $1.12 Million by the National Institutes of Health to Develop Precision Biological Processes with Machine Learning and Bioinformatics

The project combines Microvi’s MicroNiche Engineering (MNE) Platform with Nexilico’s machine learning and microbiome modeling platforms. The outcome of this combination will have the potential to predict optimal microorganisms for a given water treatment application, drive the development of more targeted solutions, and increase the reliability and success of how those solutions can be applied.

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Ameen Razavi
Microvi Celebrates Years of Successful Operation of its Commercial MNE Nitrate Treatment System Outperforming Initial Projections

While initial estimates predicted a 50% savings for operational costs compared to alternative treatment technologies, a recent data analysis found that a 75% cost savings has been demonstrated. The system has also proven a key advantage of Microvi’s sustainable biology approach where little or no biological waste has been produced over more than 48 months of operation.

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Microvi Wins the 2020 Institute of Water Scottish Region Innovation Award

Microvi Biotech, Inc. announced today that they received the 2020 Institute of Water Scottish Region Innovation Award. In 2019 and 2020 Microvi successfully completed a series of large scale demonstrations of its MNE technology for removal of ammonia and BOD at Scottish Water’s Wastewater Development Centre located at Bo’ness Treatment Works.

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Microvi MNE Enables Breakthrough for Low-Cost Water Reuse in Agriculture

Given constraints on freshwater in agricultural regions there is a drive to adopt sustainable water practices through water reuse. The fresh produce industry is one of the largest agricultural users of water with significant potential for water reuse. Microvi MNE leverages engineered biocatalysts to safely and rapidly reduce the levels of dissolved organic and inorganic compounds in wash water under very low temperatures, without contributing solids or secondary wastes to the wash water.

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Microvi MNE Technology Selected as Bay Area’s First Full-Scale Wastewater Sidestream Treatment in Multi-Million Dollar Project at Oro Loma Sanitary District

Microvi Biotech Inc. and Oro Loma Sanitary District (OLSD) are pleased to announce the installation of a full-scale Microvi MNE wastewater sidestream treatment system at the 20 MGD OLSD treatment plant in San Lorenzo, CA in 2020.  The multi-million dollar collaborative project will be conducted between Microvi, OLSD, engineering firm HDR Inc. and project design engineer EKI Environment and Water Inc. The project is funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Scottish Water Demonstrates Extraordinary Advantages of Microvi MNE for Ammonia and BOD Removal

The results of the demonstration confirmed the Microvi MNE process can treat ammonia and soluble BOD to below levels of detection at high flow and high organic loading rates. It showed that under normal operating conditions the effluent consistently achieves effluent ammonia concentration below 1 mg/l with an HRT (hydraulic retention time) of around 4 hours – around half the time of other comparable current technologies including conventional Activated Sludge Process.

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Microvi Awarded as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum 

“To receive this prestigious acknowledgement as a 2019 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum is a great honour”, said Microvi’s CEO Dr. Fatemeh Shirazi. “It is confirmation of the impactful work we are doing to provide safe and equal access to water, our drive towards a sustainable environment and improving the lives of many people worldwide. “

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