IDEA #5HME3P Water Disinfection Procedure.

Key Words: Antimicrobial, Disinfection, Antibacterial, Decontamination, Bactericidal Our technology can be applied: a) As a means of treatment for rapid and massive reduction in viable bacterial populations along with particular viral contaminants, in aqueous solutions during passage through systems where it is utilized. b) To inhibit growth of bacterial or increase of viral populations within systems that either filter or exchange heat (for cooling or heating) of water, air, or other fluids during passage. Our technology has the advantages over other existing techniques of: a) It uses relatively inexpensive chemicals that are widely used and accepted in the marketplace for antibacterial applications. b) It is a treatment involving a passive physical interaction between a surface fitted with our technology and the microbes to be removed within water, air, or other fluids that contact that surface. This means of treatment differs and has performance and cost factors favoring it over other methods that rely on chemical reactions (such as with ozone or chlorination) that require constant input of new amounts of the reacting chemicals, or constant application of high energy physical methods (such as UV or gamma-irradiation), or physical filtration (such as microporous membranes (that clog and need to be replaced). c) Our method does not appreciably reduce permeability of current air or water systems, thus adding it to existing systems would not use additional energy for fluid handling. d) It is readily scalable as shown in applications that range from treatment of water for a hiker to the needs of a skyscraper or metropolitan area.