Legionellosis and Recent Advances in Technologies for Legionella Control in Premise Plumbing Systems: A Review

KM Carlson, LA Boczek, S Chae, H Ryu - Water, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
This review discusses Legionella, among the most prolific and publicly well-known
waterborne pathogens, and advances in potential treatment technologies. The number of …

Time dependent development of aluminium pitting corrosion

RE Melchers - Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aluminium alloys have excellent corrosion resistance to a wide variety of exposure
conditions. Usually they corrode by pitting rather than by uniform corrosion. For infrastructure …

Effects of flow, brass location, tube materials and temperature on corrosion of brass plumbing devices

E Sarver, M Edwards - Corrosion Science, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Effects of plumbing-specific installation factors on brass corrosion were investigated in a
series of pipe-loop experiments. Increased flow velocity increased corrosion rates, but did …

Impact of water quality on chlorine demand of corroding copper

DA Lytle, J Liggett - Water research, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Copper is widely used in drinking water premise plumbing system materials. In buildings
such as hospitals, large and complicated plumbing networks make it difficult to maintain …

Distribution system water age can create premise plumbing corrosion hotspots

S Masters, J Parks, A Atassi, MA Edwards - Environmental monitoring and …, 2015‏ - Springer
Cumulative changes in chemical and biological properties associated with higher “water
age” in distribution systems may impact water corrosivity and regulatory compliance with …

Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation: a new approach of examining corrosion of new copper surfaces in drinking water

M Tang, S Harmon, MN Nadagouda… - Environmental science & …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Corrosion of copper material in drinking water systems causes public health concerns and
plumbing failures. This study investigated the early corrosion of new copper surfaces in situ …

Effects of selected water chemistry variables on copper pitting propagation in potable water

H Ha, C Taxen, K Williams, J Scully - Electrochimica Acta, 2011‏ - Elsevier
The pit propagation behavior of copper (UNS C11000) was investigated from an
electrochemical perspective using the artificial pit method. Pit growth was studied …

Electrically heatable carbon nanotube point-of-use filters for effective separation and in-situ inactivation of Legionella pneumophila

Y Oh, R Noga, V Shanov, H Ryu, H Chandra… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Despite municipal chlorination and secondary disinfection, opportunistic waterborne
pathogens (eg, Legionella spp.) persist in public and private water distribution systems. As a …

Anticipating challenges with in‐building disinfection for control of opportunistic pathogens

WJ Rhoads, A Pruden… - Water Environment …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
A new American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air‐Conditioning Engineers
(ASHRAE) standard for control of Legionella (ASHRAE Standard 188, 2013) emphasizes …

The anodic dissolution of copper alloys: Pure copper in synthetic tap water

P Zhou, MJ Hutchison, JR Scully, K Ogle - Electrochimica Acta, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The anodic dissolution of pure copper was investigated in naturally aerated synthetic tap
water (STW) by in situ atomic emission spectroelectrochemistry (AESEC). This technique …