AWWA WQTC55198 Hollow Fiber Ultrafiltration of Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts From 10 Liters of Surface Water

Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 01/01/2001

Kuhn, Ryan C.;Oshima, Kevin H.

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An optimized reusable hollow fiber ultrafiltration system (50,000 MWCO) was developed to concentrate Cryptosporidium oocysts from 10 L samples of environmental water. Seeded experiments were conducted using a number of surface water samples from the southwest. Ultrafiltration produced a mean recovery of 47.9% from 15 water samples (55.1% from 39 individual tests). These results indicate that hollow fiber ultrafiltration can efficiently recover oocysts from a wide variety of surface waters and may be a cost effective alternative to concentrate Cryptosporidium from water given the reusable nature of the filter. Includes 12 references, tables, figure.

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Edition: Vol. - No. Published: 01/01/2001 Number of Pages: 9 File Size: 1 file , 240 KB