Title: [Photoreactivation of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis in the secondary effluent disinfected by UV-TiO2].
Abstract: Effects of photoreactivating light intensity (0-41 microW x cm(-2)) on photoreactivation of Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Enterococcus faecalis (E. faecalis) in the secondary effluent after UV and UV-TiO2 disinfection were investigated. The results indicated that the disinfection efficiency of UV-TiO2 was much higher than that of UV disinfection. The photoreactivation rate of E. coli was much higher in UV disinfection than that in UV-TiO2 disinfection. Under high light intensity in UV-TiO2 disinfection, high resurrection rate can be induced. However, a higher resurrection rate can be introduced even under low light intensity in the UV disinfection. Meanwhile, UV-TiO2 disinfection had a strong inhibition effect on E. faecalis photoreactivation, when the light intensity was lower than 21 microW x cm(-2), three was no resurrection occurred on E. faecalis after 72 h resurrection irradiation, only under a strong photoreactivating light intensity, the resurrection rate of E. faecalis was observed.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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