Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com MOJ Food process Technol 2015, 1(2): 00011 process costs and operational complications are limiting factors for such combination. New disinfection methods and media are needed to overcome the disadvantages of the current technologies [3]. Nanomaterials are emerging and promising fungicidal, algicidal, and bactericidal media that could be applied for...

Wastewater treatment plants in Ohio and elsewhere in the U.S. operating with MBR systems are required to disinfect permeate. This requirement results in an increased cost to both capital and O&M, and with chlorination there is a potential increase in the formation of disinfection byproducts. Disinfection following MBR treatment may not be needed if the MBR process alone removes microorganisms a...

An ozonation pilot plant was installed at the Montréal Urban Community Wastewater Treatment Plant (MUCWTP) to assess the feasibility of employing a full scale ozone disinfection system. Wastewater characteristics such as turbidity, COD, TOC, BOD, pH, ORP and suspended solids were monitored to assess their effect on ozone disinfection. Fecal conforms (FC) were used as indicators to measure disin...

BACKGROUND [corrected] Endoscopes are routinely used in hospitals and clinics of the world and they can be potential sources of cross-infection when the decontamination process is unsuitable AIM The routines of flexible endoscope (bronchoscopes, esophagogastroduodenoscopes and colonoscopes) disinfection procedures used in two Brazilian university hospitals were evaluated during a 3-year perio...

The photocatalytic disinfection of Escherichia coli K-12 is investigated by the natural sphalerite (NS) under different spectra, wavelengths and intensities of visible light (VL) emitted by light-emitting-diode lamp (LED). The spectrum effect of VL on disinfection efficiency is studied by using white LED, fluorescent tube (FT) and xenon lamp (XE), which indicates that the "discreted peak spectr...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Water shortage problems have led to find either new water resources or improve wastewater treatment technologies in order to reuse. Due to less performance of previous units in microbial removal, disinfection has become a necessary step in wastewater treatment plants. In the present study performance of hydrogen peroxide (HP) and modified Fenton's reagent (HP + Cu(++))...

Water borne pathogens present a threat to human health and their disinfection from water poses a challenge, prompting search for newer methods and newer materials. Disinfection of Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli and Gram-positive coccal bacterium Staphylococcus aureus in aqueous matrix was achieved within 60 and 90 minutes respectively at 350C using solarphotocatalysis mediated by sono...

Water borne pathogens present a threat to human health and their disinfection from water poses a challenge, prompting the search for newer methods and newer materials. Disinfection of the Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli and the Gram-positive coccal bacterium Staphylococcus aureus in an aqueous matrix was achieved within 60 and 90 min, respectively, at 35 °C using solar-photocatalysis m...

The production of different species of microalgae in consortium with other micro-organisms from wastewaters may represent an alternative process, to reduce the costs, for obtaining biofuels. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of pre-ultraviolet disinfection (UV) in the production of lipids from biomass produced in high rate ponds. Two high rate algal ponds were evaluated: a pon...