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Eastwood, I. M. (1994). Problems with biocides and biofilms. In Bacterial Biofilms and their Control in Medicine and Industry, eds. P. J. Wimpenny, W. Nichols,... 

This review has attempted to summarise some aspects of what is known about the structure and biosynthesis of bacterial biofilm components, their role in the pathogenetic process of biomaterial-related infection and possible future applications of this knowledge. As is evident, much more research is needed before we can achieve effective prevention and treatment of biofilm-related infection, which is a major goal in light of the millions of patients affected in the developed world. Most excitingly, if these approaches related to PIA/PNAG polysaccharides are successful, they may also lead to solutions of infection problems with some of the most important human pathogens in hospital as well as the community like S. aureus and E. coli. 

Nonabrasive Extensively used in industry Problems with thick biofilms and with smearing organics... 

It is worthwhile drawing attention to health hazards associated with film infected water systems which also cause corrosion. Two of the most common are Legionnaires disease and so called humidifier fever . Because of strong adhesion of biofilms and diffusion rates through the film treatment based on cleaners and chemical sterilisers such as chlorine often fail similar considerations apply to other systems in industry, e.g. food, paint, oil and gas are examples where biofilm activities have given massive problems. 

NOTE Compare this with similar problems in CW systems—those of easily and accurately (and at low-cost) determining levels of microbiological contamination. In most CW systems, apart from a general maintenance quality indicator, the levels of bulk water planktonic organisms tend to have little relevance to sessile organism-biofilm reactions occurring at the metal-water interface. 

When designing sewer networks, particularly gravity sewers, reaeration is the major process that should be focused on to reduce sulfide formation and the formation of organic odorous substances (cf. Section 4.4). A number of hydraulic and systems characteristics can be managed to increase the reaeration rate and avoid or reduce sulfide-related problems. The hydraulic mean depth, the hydraulic radius, the wastewater flow velocity and the slope of the sewer pipe are, in this respect, important factors that are dealt with in Section 4.4. It should be stressed that it is not necessarily the objective to avoid sulfide formation (in the sewer biofilm), but the sulfide that occurs in the bulk water phase should be at a low concentration level. Therefore, the DO concentration in the bulk water phase should not be lower than about 0.2-0.5 g02 m-3, sufficiently high to oxidize sulfide before a considerable amount is emitted to the sewer atmosphere. 

The size, shape and charge of the solute, the size and shape of the organism, the position of the organism with respect to other cells (plankton, floes, biofilms), and the nature of the flow regime, are all important factors when describing solute fluxes in the presence of fluid motion. Unfortunately, the resolution of most hydrodynamics problems is extremely involved, and typically bioavailability problems under environmental conditions are in the range of problems for which analytical solutions are not available. For this reason, the mass transfer equation in the presence of fluid motion (equation (17), cf. equation (14)) is often simplified as [48] ... 

The biofilm concept, applied to sediment-water interactions, breaks with classical strategies to model early diagenesis (i.e., the vertical redox zonation). Although far from completely developed, this concept may overcome modeling problems, such as an adequate description of recycling of substances. 

This demand will reduce the amount of chlorine available for microbiological control and lead to slime growth, especially in the tower basin and water distribution system, with biofilms and under-deposit corrosion being common effects of this problem. 

When the chiller is bypassed, all pumps should continue to operate to prevent the buildup of biofilms and general contamination in dead-legs and low-flow areas. Conductivity control systems should be employed to maintain COC at 2.0x. Trying to maintain higher levels than this may be fraught with problems in winter and may be impossible to reach in summer. 

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