The major responsibility of the marine industry includes global transportation goods, materials, and people. To cater longstanding challenges like degradation materials biofouling, it has embraced nanotechnology solutions. Nano-technology offered numerous products such as nano-ZnO, nano alumina, silica, etc. to deal with corrosion in a cost-effective manner. Similarly, address biofouling aquati...

One new non-chemical method for removal of biofouling utilizes pulsed acoustic waves above the cavitation threshold to remove accumulated scale and/or biofouling from the inside walls of piping and other enclosed structures. The pulsed acoustic wave successively removes accumulated deposits as the arc-discharge source is moved down the tube by an operator. We describe a program developing a com...

AbilityofPseudoalteromonas tunicata to colonizenatural bio¢lms and its e¡ectonmicrobial communitystructure Dhana Rao, Torben Skovhus, Niina Tujula, Carola Holmström, Ingela Dahllöf , Jeremy S. Webb & Staffan Kjelleberg School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bio-Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Biologica...

Biofouling in membrane bioreactors (MBRs) remains a primary challenge for their wider application, despite the growing acceptance of MBRs worldwide. Research studies on membrane fouling are extensive in the literature, with more than 200 publications on MBR fouling in the last 3 years; yet, improvements in practice on biofouling control and management have been remarkably slow. Commonly applied...

Numerous engineered and natural environments suffer deleterious effects from biofouling and/or biofilm formation. For instance, bacterial contamination on biomedical devices pose serious health concerns. In membrane-based technologies, such as desalination and wastewater reuse, biofouling decreases membrane lifetime, and increases the energy required to produce clean water. Traditionally, appro...

Biofouling is one of the major issues in the power industry using seawater for cooling and other purposes. Presence of biological organisms such as bacteria and algae that could foul pipes and expensive equipments need to be managed from economical and safety point of view. Generally, the biofouling problem is aggravated in hot climate regions. Various means of disinfection processes are availa...

hydrocarbons are prone to bacterial and fungal contamination. bacteria and fungi live and proliferate in water droplets within the fuels and on surfaces surrounding them. this can cause corrosion in oil exploration and production, clogging of fuel lines in aviation and higher emissions in diesel combustion engines to state few examples. state-of-the-art is the addition of biocides to fuels, whi...