التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Microbial reductions and physical characterization of chitosan flocs when using chitosan acetate as a cloth filter aid in water treatment. |
| المؤلفون: |
Oza, Hemali H., Holmes, Eleanor B., Bailey, Emily S., Coleman, Collin K., Sobsey, Mark D. |
| المصدر: |
PLoS ONE; 1/21/2022, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p1-15, 15p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
WATER purification, WATER filters, ESCHERICHIA coli, ACETATES, CHITIN, CHITOSAN |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
SOUTH Asia |
| الشركة/الكيان: |
WORLD Health Organization, UNITED States. Environmental Protection Agency |
| مستخلص: |
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 2.1 billion people lack access to safely managed water. Cloth filtration is often employed in rural and developing communities of South Asia for point-of-use water treatment, but bacteria and viruses are too small for efficient removal by this filtration method. Chitosan is a biodegradable, cationic, organic polymer derived from the chemical treatment of chitin that acts as a coagulant and flocculant of contaminant of microbes and other particles in water, thereby facilitating filtration of microbes. This research 1) evaluated the use of chitosan acetate as a pre-treatment coagulation-flocculation process followed by cloth filtration for microbial reductions and 2) assessed floc particle size under three stirring conditions. E. coli KO11 bacteria and MS2 coliphage virus removals were quantified using culture-based methods. Chitosan acetate coagulation-flocculation pre-treatment of water, followed by cloth filtration, met or exceeded the protective (2-star) WHO performance levels for bacteria (2 log10 reduction) and viruses (3 log10 reduction), and filtrate turbidity was consistently reduced to < 1 NTU, meeting United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and WHO targets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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