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Bhuyan, Mohammad Amzad Hossain (author), Karkman, Antti (author), Prokkola, Hanna (author), Chen, B. (author), Perumal, Priyadharshini (author), Luukkonen, Tero (author)Alkali-activated foams are ceramic-like materials prepared at near-ambient temperature. This study investigates them for point-of-use water disinfection, thus providing an alternative to ceramic filters fired at a high temperature. Alkali-activated foams with different compositions were characterized for the porosity, mechanical strength,...journal article 2024
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Tan, C. (author)Historically, viruses have always been the causative agent of most human diseases. As one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, the COVID-19 pandemic, associated with SARS-CoV-2, is responsible for tens of millions of casualties in the world since the end of 2019. Meanwhile, it also has destabilized global economics. Therefore, in...doctoral thesis 2023
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Wang, Feifei (author), Hua, Yulin (author), Pan, Jiazheng (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Hea, Chiquan (author), Hofman, J.A.M.H. (author), Chu, Wenhai (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)In drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs), the widely used biological activated carbon filters (BACFs), as the last barrier before disinfection, can remove dissolved organic matter (DOM) known as precursors of disinfection by-products (DBPs). Whether phosphate addition can improve water purification and DBP control of BACFs is still...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Ruihua (author), Xiao, Rong (author), Wang, Feifei (author), Chu, Wenhai (author), Hu, Jinglong (author), Zhang, Yu (author), Jin, Wei (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author), Xu, Zuxin (author)The illicit connection of sewage pipes to stormwater pipes commonly occurs in urban stormwater systems. This brings problems that sewage might be directly discharges into natural water and even drinking water sources without treatment, posing risks to ecological safety. Sewage contains various unknown dissolved organic matter (DOM), which could...journal article 2023
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Farhat, Nadia (author), Kim, Lanhee (author), Mineta, Katsuhiko (author), Alarawi, Mohammed (author), Gojobori, Takashi (author), Saikaly, Pascal (author), Vrouwenvelder, J.S. (author)Monitoring the changes that occur to water during distribution is vital to ensure water safety. In this study, the biological stability of reverse osmosis (RO) produced drinking water, characterized by low cell concentration and low assimilable organic carbon, in combination with chlorine disinfection was investigated. Water quality at...journal article 2022
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Poudel, Prakash (author), Sharma, S. (author), Ansari, Mohamed Nainar Mohamed (author), Kumar, Pushpendra (author), Ibrahim, Sobhy M. (author), Vaish, Rahul (author), Kumar, Rajeev (author), Thomas, Paramanandam (author)In this study, a method for the bacterial disinfection of drinking water in the water storage systems based on the electric potential generated from a piezoelectric wind energy harvester is presented. First, an efficient galloping piezoelectric wind energy harvester is designed by adding curve- shaped attachments to the bluff body of the...journal article 2022
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Bicudo, Bruno (author), Van Der Werff, Bart Jan (author), Medema, G.J. (author), van Halem, D. (author)Electrochemical water treatment is gaining increasing popularity due to its wide range of potential applications, its decreasing costs, and its suitability as a decentralized treatment alternative, but mainly due to it being considered a "green technology". In the field of municipal wastewater treatment, the use of iron electrocoagulation (Fe...journal article 2022
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Lu, Zhiwei (author), Li, Xiaoling (author), Wei, Jinxiu (author), Cai, Miao (author), Yang, Daoguo (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)UVC-LED is known as a deep ultraviolet LED. The application development and disinfection efficiency of UVC-LED modules are important problems encountered when UVC-LED products are rushed into commercialization. In this article, a specific disinfection experiment with a UVC-LED module was combined to analyze the disinfection efficiency. UVC-LEDs...conference paper 2022
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Bicudo, Bruno (author), Medema, G.J. (author), van Halem, D. (author)Electrochemical ferrous iron (Fe<sup>2+</sup>) wastewater treatment is gaining momentum for treating municipal wastewater due to its decreasing costs, environmental friendliness and capacity for removal of a wide range of contaminants. Disinfection by iron electrocoagulation (Fe-EC) has been occasionally reported in full scale industrial...journal article 2022
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Wang, Feifei (author), Pan, Jiazheng (author), Hu, Yulin (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Wang, Haoqian (author), Huang, Xin (author), Chu, Wenhai (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Biological activated carbon (BAC) filtration is usually considered to be able to decrease formation potentials (FPs) of disinfection by-products (DBPs) in drinking water treatment plant (DWTP). However, BAC filters with long running time may release microbial metabolites to effluents and therefore increase FPs of nitrogenous DBPs with high...journal article 2022
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Balasubramanian, S. (author), Yu, K. (author), Vasquez Cardenas, D. (author), Aubin-Tam, M.E. (author), Meyer, Anne S. (author)Biofilms are three-dimensional (3D) bacterial communities that exhibit a highly self-organized nature in terms of their composition and complex architecture. Bacteria in biofilms display emergent biological properties, such as resistance to antimicrobials and disinfectants that the individual planktonic cells lack. Bacterial biofilms possess...journal article 2021
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Peng, Liqi (author), Wang, Feifei (author), Zhang, Di (author), Fang, Chao (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author), Chu, Wenhai (author)The high chlorine dosages in wastewater treatment plants during the COVID-19 pandemic may result in increased formation of disinfection by-products (DBPs), posing great threat to the aquatic ecosystem of the receiving water body and the public health in the downstream area. However, limited information is available on the effect of biological...journal article 2021
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Keuten, M.G.A. (author)As swimmers enter a swimming pool, they release micro-organisms, particles and soluble substances. While chlorine is often used to inactivate micro-organisms, a side-effect of chlorination is the formation of unwanted disinfection by-products. In order to reduce these by-products, more knowledge is needed on the release of pollutants by bathers...doctoral thesis 2018
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Ilyas, Huma (author), Masih, Ilyas (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)This paper presents a comprehensive and critical comparison of 10 disinfection methods of swimming pool water: chlorination, electrochemically generated mixed oxidants (EGMO), ultraviolet (UV) irradiation, UV/chlorine, UV/hydrogen peroxide (H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>), UV/H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>/chlorine, ozone (O<sub>3</sub>)/chlorine, O...review 2018
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Ilyas, Huma (author), Masih, Ilyas (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)This paper investigates disinfection by-products (DBPs) formation and their relationship with governing factors in chlorinated swimming pools. The study compares concentrations of DBPs with WHO guidelines for drinking water quality recommended to screen swimming pool water quality. The statistical analysis is based on a global database of 188...journal article 2018
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El-Kalliny, A.S.M. (author)The main focus of this thesis is to study the advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) of water pollutants via UV/hypochlorite (homogeneous AOPs), and UV solar light/TiO2 (heterogeneous AOPs) in which the highly oxidative hydroxyl radicals (OH) are produced. These radicals are capable of destructing the emerging organic pollutants in water. The...doctoral thesis 2013
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Drinking water treatment technologies in Europe: State of the art - vulnerabilities - research needsVan der Hoek, J.P. (author), Bertelkamp, C. (author), Verliefde, A.R.D. (author), Singhal, N. (author)Eureau is the European Federation of National Associations of Water and Wastewater Services. At the request of Eureau Commission 1, dealing with drinking water, a survey was made focusing on raw drinking water sources and drinking water treatment technologies applied in Europe. Raw water sources concerned groundwater, surface water, surface...conference paper 2012
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Ross, P.S. (author), Van der Helm, A.W.C. (author), Van den Broeke, J. (author), Rietveld, L.C. (author)The application of ozone in water treatment serves many purposes, such as disinfection, degradation of organic micro-pollutants and oxidation of taste, odour and colour producing compounds. A commonly used method to determine the disinfection capacity of ozonation is calculating the exposure of pathogens to ozone, this capacity is expressed as...conference paper 2012
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Wols, B.A. (author)Hydrodynamic processes largely determine the efficacy of drinking water treatment systems, in particular disinfection systems. A lack of understanding of the hydrodynamics has resulted in suboptimal designs of these systems. The formation of unwanted disinfection-by-products and the energy consumption or use of chemicals is therefore higher than...doctoral thesis 2010
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van der Helm, A.W.C. (author)Drinking water treatment plants automation becomes more sophisticated, more on-line monitoring systems become available and integration of modeling environments with control systems becomes easier. This gives possibilities for model-based optimization. In operation of drinking water treatment plants, the processes are usually optimized...doctoral thesis 2007