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Virus‐Host System for Use in the Study of Virus Removal
Author(s) -
Shane M. S.,
Wilson S. B.,
Fries C. R.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1967.tb03505.x
Subject(s) - alum , sedimentation , environmental science , virus , filtration (mathematics) , settling , water treatment , raw water , coagulation , water supply , host (biology) , pilot plant , environmental engineering , pulp and paper industry , waste management , biology , chemistry , virology , ecology , engineering , mathematics , sediment , psychology , paleontology , statistics , organic chemistry , psychiatry
The Water Resources Laboratory of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Delaware undertook a study to determine whether the blue‐green algal virus LPP‐l host‐virus system could be used as a laboratory tool to evaluate the effect of different unit processes in the removal of this virus. A pilot plant operation was set up that included coagulation with alum, sedimentation, and filtration. Water to be treated was collected from the White Clay Creek, a local water supply, which is representative, biologically and chemically, of surface waters in this area. Jar tests were done to determine the dosages of alum required to produce a good floc with good settling.