Project description:Ozone has been proposed for water disinfection because it is more efficient than chlorine for killing microbes and results in much lower levels of carcinogenic trihalomethanes than does chlorination. Ozone leads to formation of hypobromous acid in surface waters with high bromine content and forms brominated organic by-products and bromate. The carcinogenicity and chronic toxicity of potassium bromate (KBrO3) [CAS:7758-02-3;CHEBI:32030] was studied in male B6C3F1 mice and F344/N rats to confirm and extend the results of previous work. Mice were treated with 0, 0.08, 0.4, or 0.8 g/L KBrO3 in the drinking water for up to 100 wk, and rats were provided with 0, 0.02, 0.1, 0.2, or 0.4 g/L KBrO3. Animals were euthanatized, necropsied, and subjected to a complete macroscopic examination. Selected tissues and gross lesions were processed by routine methods for light microscopic examination. The present study showed that KBrO3 is carcinogenic in the rat kidney, thyroid, and mesothelium and is a renal carcinogen in the male mouse, KBrO3 was carcinogenic in rodents at water concentrations as low as 0.02 g/L (20 ppm; 1.5 mg/kg/day). These data can be used to estimate the human health risk that would be associated with changing from chlorination to ozonation for disinfection of drinking water.
Project description:Mechanical energy–driven portable water disinfection has attracted attention for its electricity-free operation, but this approach generally faces bottlenecks such as a high mechanical activation threshold, energy dispersion, and low interfacial reaction efficiency, making it difficult to achieve rapid and stable pathogen inactivation in practical scenarios. Here we report a manually operated portable water disinfection system that can inactivate 99.9999% of V. cholerae within 1 minute and demonstrate broad-spectrum disinfection against bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses. Amino-modified SiO₂ nanoparticles loaded with Au nanoparticles capture hydrated electrons and transfer them to the electret surface to generate localized nanoscale electric fields, which are further strengthened by hydrophobic fluorinated groups. This interfacial architecture not only promotes charge accumulation and transfer, but also leverages the intensified electric field to actively drive reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation at the solid–liquid–air interface, thereby markedly enhancing disinfection rate and efficacy compared with existing contact electrification–based disinfection technologies. Owing to its ease of operation, ourinterfacial electric-field-enhanced (IEFE) disinfection system is readily deployable in disaster relief and resource-constrained regions.
2025-09-10 | GSE305452 | GEO
Project description:Effect of disinfection method on biofilm bacterial community in domestic hot water system
| PRJNA624925 | ENA
Project description:Bacterial transcriptome after ultraviolet chlorine treatment
| PRJNA1061226 | ENA
Project description:Murine norovirus populations exposed to chlorine disinfection
| PRJNA939350 | ENA
Project description:Microbial community in RW chlorine dioxide disinfection
| PRJNA1107031 | ENA
Project description:Domestic hot water pilot microbiome dynamics
Project description:Minimal processing using chlorinated water washes is a common practice in the fresh produce industry to reduce the microbial load and bacterial pathogens attached on produce surfaces. To evaluate if E. coli O157:H7 strains with different phyllogenetic backgrounds are equally sensitive or display variable resistance to chlorine treatment, we studied the expression profile of Sakai and one 2006 spinach outbreak strain (TW 14359) in response to chlorine and hydrogen peroxide treatment.
Project description:Although drinking water disinfection has proved to be an effective strategy to eliminate most waterborne pathogens, bacterial pathogens can still show disinfection tolerance in drinking water distribution systems (DWDSs), posing a great threat to drinking water safety and human health. Despite stress signals such as starvation and low temperature were reported to increase disinfection tolerance of E. coli, it is unclear whether the stress-induced disinfection tolerance was conserved in different bacterial species.