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AquaNova Group · water transformation

Restore water.Recover value.

Advanced oxidation and biological treatment that works with existing wastewater infrastructure to control odour, reduce sludge, break down difficult contaminants and return more water to useful service.

Drakenstein MunicipalityCES 21/2025 awarded · programme through June 2028
Inside the sewer

The problem is not only what you can smell.

In anaerobic sewers, sulphide can form in the wastewater and H₂S can pass into the headspace. Moist surfaces above the flow are particularly vulnerable to the microbial processes that drive acid corrosion.

H₂S
Odour + corrosion

Dissolved sulphide and gas-phase H₂S are different parts of the same sewer cycle.

COD / CECs
Persistent load

Organic and difficult-to-break-down compounds increase treatment pressure.

Sludge
Capacity consumed

Biomass and solids still need to settle, be handled and ultimately removed.

Raw sewer

See the problem where it actually forms.

In an anaerobic sewer, sulphide builds in the wastewater and escapes into the headspace as H₂S. The odour travels with the gas. The corrosion concentrates on the damp concrete above the flow.

2,000 ppm
reported starting H₂S reading · Abu Dhabi case study
Dosing point

Introduce the treatment into the moving water.

T3 Hydrox is dosed straight into the liquid phase through the pumps and lines already on site. No new tanks, no civil works, no shutdown.

Retrofit-first
designed around existing wastewater infrastructure
Oxidation zone

Follow the reaction downstream.

The oxidiser reacts on contact, converting dissolved sulphide to sulphate. Less sulphide in the water means less H₂S in the headspace. Existing crown damage stays where it is; treatment stops it getting worse.

<3 min
reported H₂S response · AquaNova Abu Dhabi case study
Biological recovery

Go into the water itself.

Hydrobiotics cultures work inside the activated-sludge floc: bacterial aggregates, filaments and ciliates digesting the residual organic load that chemistry alone leaves behind.

30%+
reported sludge-volume reduction across treatment programmes
Recovered water

Finish on clearer water and more capacity.

As the residual load settles out, the plant recovers treatment capacity, discharge stays inside consent, and more of the water is fit to be reused.

98.5%+
reported target CEC removal · AquaNova industrial case study
One treatment train

Fast chemistry. Living recovery.

T3 Hydrox handles the immediate oxidation problem in the moving water. Hydrobiotics continues the work biologically downstream. The two technologies should read as one process, not two unrelated product cards.

T3 Hydroxrapid oxidation in the existing flowHydrobioticsbiological recovery downstreamloaded wastewatertoward recovered water value
Measured outcomes

Let the evidence carry the emphasis.

These figures are presented as reported case-study outcomes where the current public evidence is AquaNova material rather than independent verification.

<3 min
reported H₂S response
Complete odour removal in typical applications
30%+
reported sludge-volume reduction
Hydrobiotics treatment programmes
98.5%+
reported target CEC removal
AquaNova industrial case study
1–7 days
reported visible treatment response
application dependent
In the field

Follow the result back to a real site.

Explore the case studies
Abu Dhabi

A sewer system under extreme H₂S load

2,000 ppm H₂SNon-detectable

AquaNova reports a T3 Hydrox oxidation response in under three minutes in its Abu Dhabi case study.

South Africa

Treatment capacity without rebuilding the plant

Existing infrastructureSupplemental treatment

AquaNova's operating model adds dosing and biological treatment to existing works rather than assuming a complete plant replacement.

Drakenstein

Municipal chemical dosing and bioremediation programme

CES 21/2025Tender awarded

AquaNova was awarded Drakenstein Municipality tender CES 21/2025 for the supply of chemical dosing and bioremediation material through June 2028.

Water recovery

Wastewater is not the end of the story.

Better treatment protects receiving environments, makes reuse more viable, reduces demand on fresh water and gives existing infrastructure more life.

Pollution → treatment → recovery → reuse. The story closes on more useful water, not merely cleaner discharge.

Start with the problem

Tell us about your water.

Retrofit-first, site-specific treatment measured against the operating target that matters to your plant.

Discuss a treatment challenge