Among those challenges is the unanticipated presence of particles that clog filters designed to prevent the escape of radioactive material.
Ralph Mills, who owns a heating oil company in Newburgh, N.Y., said at the workshop that when he tested B20 with about 100 customers this winter, he was concerned that the fuel might gel in very cold weather or clog filters and fuel lines.
The presence of suspended particles would clog filters or impair disinfection process, thereby dramatically minimizing the risk of waterborne diseases[5, 6].
In industrial settings, biofilms corrode pipes, clog filters, foul ship hulls, and contaminate food-processing equipment.
Considering higher phospholipid and lipid content in such lysates compared to UC samples that may clog filters, it was of interest to evaluate whether the 96FASP method permitted the use of equal loading aliquots of total protein (10 20 μg).
Zhiqiang Hu, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Missouri, Columbia, has conducted similar studies with bacterial biofilms of P. aeruginosa, which commonly clog filters at drinking water treatment plants and require chlorine and expensive flushing to clean them.
These typically rust on the inside after a year or two and these rust particles will clog filters and jets.
Image analyses of synchrotron X-ray holotomography radiographs also highlight a heterogeneous liquid distribution along the thickness of the clogged filter.
Lastly, we attempt to model the clogging dynamism with the homogenization upscaling approach, by computationally resolving both the macroscale and microscale hydraulic gradient under clean and increasing clogging filter condition respectively to approximate the total clogging hydraulic gradient (CHG).
And others suggest that the potential for human error or mechanical failure — clogged filters or torn membranes that let pathogens through, for example — is too great to risk something as basic to public health as drinking water.
