Inactivation of recalcitrant protozoan oocysts and bacterial endospores in drinking water using high-intensity pulsed UV light irradiation

Water Science and Technology: Water Supply

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 513-522

  Hayes, J C ^a   Garvey, M ^a   Fogarty, A M ^a   Clifford, E ^b   Rowan, N J ^a  

^a Athletic Rehabilitation Therapy Ireland   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts; Indicator species; Novel water treatment; Pulsed UV light; Recalcitrant bacterial endospores

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIOLOGY; CELL CULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM; DISINFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IRRADIATION; POTABLE WATER; PROTOZOA; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER; WATER TREATMENT;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM OOCYSTS; INDICATOR SPECIES; NOVEL WATER TREATMENTS; PULSED UV-LIGHT; RECALCITRANT BACTERIAL ENDOSPORES;

WATER POLLUTION;

DRINKING WATER;

BACTERIUM; CHLORINATION; DRINKING WATER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IRRADIATION; PROTOZOAN; REACTION KINETICS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; CELL COUNT; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; HIGH INTENSITY PULSED ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT IRRADIATION; OOCYST; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 84864949985     PISSN: 16069749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/ws.2012.017     Document Type: Article

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