Real-Time Deduction of Mechanisms and Kinetics Underlying Photocatalytic Water Disinfection: Cell Motility and Particle Tracking.

ABSTRACT: The current methods used to study photocatalysis-assisted water disinfection at a laboratory scale may not lead to process scale-up for large-scale implementation. These methods do not capture the process complexity and address all the factors underlying disinfection kinetics, including the physical characteristics (e.g., shape and size) of the photocatalyst, the light intensity, the form of the catalyst (e.g., free-floating and immobilized), and the photocatalyst-microorganism interaction mode (e.g., collision mode and constant contact mode). This drawback can be overcome using in situ methods to track the interaction between the photocatalysts and the microorganisms (e.g., Escherichia coli) and thereby engineering the resulting disinfection kinetics. Contextually, this study emplo

SUBMITTER: Vidwans NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10778399 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature