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Journal of the Environmental Sciences 2012 Volume.21 No. 8 p.901 ~ p.907
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Assessment of Bacteria Removal Using Silver Ion Absorbed Ceramic Filter
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Kim Woo-Hang
Smith James
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Abstract
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The objective of this study was to evaluate bacteria removal ability of the metallic silver which was baked silver ion
impregnated ceramic filter at heating condition. Silver leaking from baked ceramic filter was tested to sustain bacteria
removal for a long time. Silver impregnated ceramic filter could remove E. coli completely at 1012 MPN/100ml to 1013
MPN/100ml of influent. However, ceramic filter without silver did not remove E. coli completely under the same
condition. After baking, the silver impregnated ceramic filter almost didn¡¯t leak out the silver ion from filter. Photo of
TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy) showed that absorbed silver ions remained in ceramic filter after baking process and most of silver were less than 10 nm. According to the increase in the amount of silver in the ceramic filter, removal efficiencies of E. coli were increased but turbidity removal was decreased. It can be accounted that increased removal efficiency of E. coli was from disinfection of silver that is in the ceramic filter. Simulated concentrations of bacteria agree well with the observed experimental effluent concentration data. Moreover, first-order decay coefficients increased to
0.0034/min after silver was added in the ceramic filter. Increase of first-order decay coefficient proves that silver-added
ceramic filter can remove bacteria easily.
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KEYWORD
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Ceramic filter, Drinking water treatment, Bactria, Nano silver, Silver ion, Metallic silver, Silver nanoparticle
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