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Disinfection of Water, Electrochemical

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Disinfection is the killing of vegetative microorganisms. Accepted methods must be able to reduce microorganisms by at least five orders of magnitude. Electrochemical water disinfection (ECD) is one of these methods [1]. ECD acts by means of electrochemical disinfectant generation onsite or inline (Fig. 1). Besides the disinfection effect, benefit of ECD arises from relatively simple cell construction and easy automation.

Disinfection of Water, Electrochemical, Fig. 1
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Onsite (a) and inline addition (b) of disinfectants to water

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Bergman, H. (2014). Disinfection of Water, Electrochemical. In: Kreysa, G., Ota, Ki., Savinell, R.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Applied Electrochemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6996-5_139

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