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Company proposes nanobubble system to improve Indian River Lagoon water quality; council agrees to explore options
Summary
Moli Air presented a plan to install a floating nanobubble oxygenation system in the Indian River Lagoon and estimated a single installation would cost roughly $2 million to $2.5 million, with annual operating costs of about $150,000–$200,000.
A private company briefed the Titusville City Council on a nanobubble oxygenation system designed to reduce muck, cyanobacteria and low-oxygen “dead-zone” conditions in parts of the Indian River Lagoon.
Moli Air (the presenter, identified in the meeting only as the company’s surface-water director) described a modular system that sits on a floating barge and recirculates lagoon water through a device that injects very small oxygen- or ozone-laden bubbles. The presenter said those “nanobubbles” lack buoyancy and carry a charge that lets them remain in the water column and at the sediment–water interface longer than conventional aeration systems, which the company says helps stop nutrients from releasing from bottom sediments.
The company proposed installing a single system able to treat an estimated 500–1,000…
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