Disinfection of biological agents in the field using a mobile advanced oxidation process
Citation:
U.S. EPA. Disinfection of biological agents in the field using a mobile advanced oxidation process. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-16/112, 2016.
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The Army’s Net Zero Initiative is an energy-conservation program that focuses on energy as well as water and waste usage procedures. All Net Zero projects are geared toward helping the military installation or community become more sustainable and resilient, with an emphasis on taking a systems approach. Net Zero projects must advance the state of the science and are focused on three general topic areas: water, energy, and waste, and the nexuses among them. This project examined the inactivation and/or removal of biological contaminants in dirty wash water using a portable ozone-UV AOP process. The strain of E. coli used in these experiments is not a biological warfare agent, but acts as a surrogate for certain of the vegetative biological agents such as the enterohemorrhagic strain designated E. coli 0157:H7.
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