Author: Seymour S Block
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: preservation, sterilization, disinfection
Number of Pages: 1504
Published: 2000-12-15
List price: $279.00
ISBN-10: 0683307401
ISBN-13: 9780683307405

Univ. of Florida, Gainesville. Comprehensive text includes new chapters dealing with synergism between chemical agents, the use of antibiotics as antiseptics, the problem of biofouling by microbial biofilms, and new regulations of antimicrobials by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Previous edition: c1991.

Author: Mario Stanga
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Keywords: industry, food, disinfection, cleaning, sanitation
Number of Pages: 611
Published: 2010-03-22
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 3527326855
ISBN-13: 9783527326853

Finally, an up-to-date guide to cleaning and disinfection for the food preparation and processing industries. It discusses a host of examples from various food industries as well as topics universal to many industries, including biofilm formation, general sanitizing, and clean-in-place systems. Equally, the principles related to contamination, cleaning compounds, sanitizers and cleaning equipment are addressed. As a result, concepts of applied detergency are developed in order to understand and solve problems related to the cleaning and disinfection of laboratories, plants and other industrial

Authors:James Bolton, Christine Cotton,
Publisher: American Water Works Association
Keywords: handbook, disinfection, ultraviolet
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2008-05-27
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1583215840
ISBN-13: 9781583215845

With the explosion of interest in UV disinfection, the USEPA fully mandates the use of UV disinfection in the new LT2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rules. This Handbook is designed to provide a practical introduction to the subject of UV disinfection and UV reactors. This Handbook will be of value to engineering and scientific consultants, water treatment operators and managers, government regulatory staff, and students and faculty members in undergraduate science and engineering programs. Terminology is carefully defined and essential references are included.

Author: Gerald E., Ph.D. McDonnell
Publisher: ASM Press
Keywords: action, resistance, types, sterilization, disinfection, antisepsis
Number of Pages: 361
Published: 2007-05-30
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 1555813925
ISBN-13: 9781555813925

This new title provides a basic understanding of the various chemical and physical antisepsis, disinfection, and sterlization methods used for infection prevention and contamination control. It considers the current understanding of mechanisms of biocidal action on microorganisms and describes the less-studied mechanisms of resistance in viruses, prions, fungi, and other eukaryotes. This work: presents a comprehensive review of the various chemical and physical antisepsis, disinfection, and sterilization methods; offers background information on microbiology, including a discussion of the spec

Author: James M. Symons
Publisher: American Water Works Association
Keywords: formation, chloramination, product, disinfection, affecting, factors
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 1997-09
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0898679060
ISBN-13: 9780898679069

Author: Yuefeng Xie
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: analysis, control, formation, water, byproducts, drinking, disinfection
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-08-27
List price: $184.95
ISBN-10: 1566769744
ISBN-13: 9781566769747

The EPA has established regulations which classify four types of disinfection byproducts - TTHMs, haloacetic acids, bromate, and chlorite - and requires public water systems limit these byproducts to specific levels. Most of the information required to comply with these standards is either scattered throughout the literature or derived from conferences or symposiums. Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water: Formation, Analysis, and Control pulls all the information together to provide a needed organized presentation of disinfection byproduct analysis, formation, and control. The author begin

Author: Wladyslaw Kowalski
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: air, surface, disinfection, uvgi, handbook, germicidal, irradiation, ultraviolet
Number of Pages: 502
Published: 2009-09-30
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 3642019986
ISBN-13: 9783642019982

This book is a comprehensive source for technical information regarding ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) and its application to air and surface disinfection for the control of pathogens and allergens. The primary focus is on airborne microbes and surface contamination applications for hospitals, commercial facilities, and residential homes. All aspects of UVGI systems, including design methods, sizing methods, modeling, safety, installation, testing, guidelines, and disinfection theory are addressed in detail. An extensive database of over six hundred UV rate constant studies is inc