Bacterial water contaminations

Pure Ti02 was recently reported to be active in the disinfection of water contaminated by spores of the type Fusarium solani [142], Bacillus anthracis [143], or Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts [144], or when supported as nanocomposites on zeolite H(i for E. coli deactivation [145], and it found applications in water treatment as a replacement for chlorine. Ag-Ti02 immobilized systems were used for inactivation of bacteria, coupling the visible light response of the system and the strong bactericidal effect of Ag [146]. Silver was deposited on hydroxyapatite to form nanocomposites with a high capacity for bacterial adsorption and inactivation [147], or used for airborne bacterial remediation in indoor air [148],... 

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Cholera (vibrio cholera) is a bacterial disease that is contracted by ingestion of contaminated water or food. However, it does not spread easily from person to person. Cholera occurs natnrally in many nnderdeveloped conntries and has cansed widespread outbreaks in Sonth America, with over 250,000 cases reported jnst in Peru. It can be spread throngh ingestion of food or water contaminated with feces or vomitus of patients, by dirty water, hands contaminated with feces, or flies. Cholera is an acute infectious disease, represented by a sndden onset of symptoms. Victims may experience nansea, vomiting, profnse watery diarrhea with rice water appearance, and the rapid loss of body flnids, toxemia, and freqnent collapse. Not everyone exposed will show symptoms. In some cases, there may be as many as 400 people without symptoms for every patient showing symptoms. Where cases go untreated, the death rate can be as high as 50%. With treatment, the death rate drops to below 1%. 

Horizontal piping systems used to collect and transport well fluids introduce problems of phase separation resulting in stratified corrosive water and gas phases that complicate inhibition control and monitoring. In addition, there is the possibility of oxygen and bacterial (SRB) contamination that can accelerate corrosion. Control of internal corrosion of steel surface piping generally involves inhibition or plastic lining. 

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Heterotrophic bacteria appear in great quantity in the course of water filtration through carbon filters as carbon is an ideal growth medium for these bacteria, which attach to the porous surface of the filter and obtain food by consuming adsorbed water contaminants. Under suitable conditions, they adapt to environment and grow as biofilm. The most suitable conditions for the growth of bacterial colonies occur in the mesoporous activated carbon filters. The substances for microbial consumption are effectively fixed and accumulated within these filters. 

But due to flotation (bubble-film extraction), the products of bacterial metabolism and the products of bacterial degradation together with other water contaminants are ranoved continuously from recirculation flow through the bubble-film extractor. As a result, another positive feedback is realized in filtration-flotation system. The essence of this effect lies in the inhibition of vital functions of bacteria with increasing microbial metabolite concentration according to the law of chemical kinetics. And in accordance with the same law, bacterial activity is increased as the products of bacterial metabolism are removed from treated water [20]. Thus, we are able to add one more component, namely, AK, to the magnitude (/fj + AK2). The component AK represents the increase in biofiltration efficiency due to bacterial inhibitors removed by means of bubble-film extraction. In such a way, the resulting rate constant of the process takes the form ( fi + AK2 + AKi). 

Taints may also be introduced into a food via water in an indirect manner, e.g., the absorption of taints from habitat water by fish and shellfish. There has been a substantial amount of work on taints in fish and shellfish due to water contamination [17]. Fish are very susceptible to absorbing chanicals from their environment resulting in a taint. The taint may come from water pollution (chemical) or bacterial growth in the water. 

Bacterial diseases, which are usually spread through water contamination, are a canse for major concern thronghout the world. Cholera is very widespread, despite the fact that huge numbers (about one billion) of the cholera bacteria are needed to canse infection. 

Cathodic protection with impressed current, aluminum or magnesium anodes does not lead to any promotion of germs in the water. There is also no multiplication of bacteria and fungi in the anode slime [32,33]. Unhygienic contamination of the water only arises if anaerobic conditions develop in the slurry deposits, giving rise to bacterial reduction of sulfate. If this is the case, HjS can be detected by smell in amounts which cannot be detected analytically or by taste. Remedial measures are dealt with in Section 20.4.2. 

Among contaminants one of the most objectionable is oil, especially in systems where water is strongly heated. A relatively small amount of oil on a heating surface can produce very rapid failures. An indirect effect of oil, or other contaminants which form films on the water surface, is that the film isolates the water from air so that in polluted water anaerobic conditions may develop with the encouragement of objectionable bacterial activity. 

Open recirculating systems These are more amenable to inhibition since it is possible to maintain a closer control on water composition. Corrosion inhibition in these systems is closely allied to a number of other problems that have to be considered in the application of water treatment. Most of these arise from the use of cooling towers, ponds, etc. in which the water is subject to constant evaporation and contamination leading to accumulation of dirt, insoluble matter, aggressive ions and bacterial growths, and to variations in pH. A successful water treatment must therefore take all these factors into account and inhibition will often be accompanied by scale prevention and bactericidal treatments. 

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