Evidence and references
How we prove results on a real installation
No NanoMAR project has been cleared for publication yet — so here is the protocol instead.
NanoMAR publishes no named case studies, because no customer has yet cleared one for publication. The published figures — 80 %+ suspended-matter removal, 50 %+ turbidity reduction, 40 %+ higher oxygen transfer — describe the nanobubble platform, not a named site. Proof on a specific water comes from a measured pilot: a baseline before installation, the same instruments afterwards, and a report the customer owns. References appear here as operators approve them.
How we measure and report
NanoMAR AS has built nanobubble systems in Bergen since 2023, and no customer has yet released a project for publication. That is a position, not an oversight.
Three rules govern every number we print
- Platform figures stay platform figures. Never re-attributed to a site, never turned into a cost claim.
- Site data belongs to the site. Nothing is published without written permission.
- No baseline, no result. A reading is evidence only if the same probe, in the same position, produced a number first.
Read how the physics works, and who builds it.
What figures can NanoMAR publish today?
Platform figures. Attributed to no customer or site.
Aquaculture and RAS
In a recirculating system the question is not whether oxygen went up, but whether the tank holds its target through the worst hour of the feeding day.
So a RAS pilot logs dissolved oxygen at inlet and outlet continuously, making the daily minimum visible. The duty point is fixed first: a NanOxy Pro delivers 18.9 m³/h at 40 mg/L, 37.8 m³/h at 20 mg/L or 75.6 m³/h at 10 mg/L — one machine, three duties. Background: aquaculture water treatment.
Municipal wastewater
Aeration is usually the largest electrical load on a treatment works. A higher dissolved-oxygen reading means little if the blowers still run at the same duty.
So the pilot is instrumented on both sides: composites rather than grabs, oxygen profiled along the basin, gas and power metered throughout. Dosing stays frozen, so any movement in solids belongs to the nanobubble stage — which adds only gas. The unit is NanVANN Pro at 5–500 m³/h, covering TSS and TOC reduction with TAN management; context sits under wastewater aeration.
Industrial process water
NanoMAR builds for 9+ industries, and the deciding parameter changes with each.
Mining effluent
Flotation duty. Abrasive water points to the ceramic stage rather than the membrane one.
Food industry
Cleaning and odour reduction. The number that counts is residue left behind.
Oil and gas
Produced water, where separation beats a headline oxygen figure.
Agriculture and irrigation
Measure root-zone oxygen at the emitter, or you measure the pipework.
Lakes, ponds and towers
Algae and biofilm control, judged against seasonal behaviour.
Desalination pre-treatment
Biofouling ahead of the membranes; differential pressure carries the result.
Pilot studies
A pilot answers one question under conditions you can defend afterwards.
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Agree the number the pilot must move
One parameter, and the condition it must hold under. "Better water" cannot be passed or failed; a concentration held at peak load can.
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Baseline before anything arrives
Instruments logging long enough to capture normal variation, not one quiet shift.
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Change one thing
The generator goes on a side-stream and nothing else moves — no dosing adjustment, no feed change.
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Run through the worst case
Peak load, warmest water. A trial that never meets the difficult hour cannot show the system is sized for it.
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Decide what scales
A pilot on NanOxy M Pro at 10–100 m³/h (nominal 35–55) exists to produce a production specification.
Measurement methodology
What gets measured, with what, and why it decides the outcome.
| Parameter | Method | When | Why it decides the result |
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| Dissolved oxygen | Optical probe, fixed depth, logged continuously | Both periods | Spot readings hide the daily minimum |
| Turbidity | One turbidimeter, fixed sampling times | Both periods | Shows whether your water reproduces the published 50 %+ reduction |
| Suspended solids | Gravimetric filtration, one laboratory | Both periods | The 80 %+ figure means nothing without a matched baseline |
| Ammonia and nitrite | One method and reagent kit throughout | Both periods | Shows whether biology is helped or disturbed |
| Gas and electrical load | Gas flow meter, generator sub-metering | Continuous | NanoMAR publishes no energy percentage; energy is what your meters recorded |
| Bubble size | Particle analysis on a discharge sample | Commissioning, then intervals | Confirms bubbles under 200 nm |
Instrument, position and sampling time are frozen at the baseline.
A figure with no baseline, no instrument and no date behind it belongs in a brochure, not in an engineering decision.
Become a reference site
This page will change. As pilots complete and operators agree to be named, each will be published in the same shape: the problem, the baseline, the system installed, the measurement afterwards, and the operator's own assessment.
A site suits the programme when four things hold: a problem with a number attached; instrumentation, or room for it; somebody who can approve release of the data; and a process stable enough to credit a change to the equipment rather than the season.
The site keeps the dataset — raw logs, method sheet, matched comparison, sizing recommendation. Size the duty with the oxygen calculator, see how a generator is built or how NanoMAR compares with Moleaer.
Frequently asked questions
- Does NanoMAR have published case studies?
Not yet. No NanoMAR customer has cleared a nanobubble project for publication, so this page carries the pilot protocol and measurement method instead. References go up as operators approve them in writing.
- What results does a NanoMAR nanobubble system deliver?
NanoMAR publishes 80 %+ suspended-matter removal, 50 %+ turbidity reduction and 40 %+ higher oxygen transfer for its nanobubble systems, with no chemicals dosed. Those figures describe the platform; a measured pilot establishes what your own water does.
- Who owns the data from a NanoMAR pilot?
The customer. NanoMAR hands over the raw probe logs and laboratory sheets from the nanobubble trial with its own interpretation, and publishes nothing from them without written permission.
- Which equipment is used for a pilot rather than production?
NanoMAR runs nanobubble trials on NanOxy S2 at 2–50 lpm and NanOxy M Pro at 10–100 m³/h. Production duty moves to NanOxy Pro, NanOxy S1 or NanVANN Pro.
Put a baseline on your water
Send the flow rate, the failing parameter and whatever you already measure. Our engineers in Bergen will say what a pilot needs.
Ready to rethink your water?
Tell us about your process and we'll size a nanobubble system for it.
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