Management and use of beneficial bacterial biofilms to control aquatic pathogens, for reliable chemical-free sanitisation of swimming pools. .

游泳池过滤市场（价值32亿美元）目前缺乏无化学品的替代品，尽管客户要求更健康，更容易和更便宜的游泳池水处理解决方案。该项目有助于充分实现基于天然生物过滤器的水处理技术的大众市场潜力，通过创新和强大的科学研究和开发水生病原体行为和使用生物膜控制。项目目标：确定我们的生物膜如何降低水传播病原体的水平;确定生物过滤器内的生物膜是否允许病原体重新进入水中;开发最佳栖息地和生物膜管理，以最大限度地去除病原体;量化全尺寸过滤模型上的病原体存活率。在项目过程中获得的宝贵知识将使一组优化的操作参数（例如：最佳PH值/流速）和基质特性（例如孔径，深度），最大限度地提高生物膜性能的效率，可重复性和可靠性（w.r.t.病原体控制）用于真实世界条件。

The swimming pool filtration market (worth 3.2bn) currently lacks chemical-free alternatives despitecustomers’ demands of healthier, easier and cheaper solutions to pool water treatment. This project helps tofully realise the mass market potential for natural bio-filter based water treatment technology, throughinnovative and robust scientific research and development into aquatic pathogen behaviour and control usingbio-films. Project Objectives: Determine how our biofilms reduce levels of waterborne pathogens; ascertainwhether bio-films housed within a bio-filter allow re-introduction of pathogens in water; develop optimalhabitats & management of biofilms to maximise pathogen removal; & quantify pathogen survival rates on full-scale filtration models. The invaluable knowledge gained during the project will enable a set of optimisedoperational parameters (eg: optimal PH/ flow rates) and substrate properties (eg pore size, depth), whichmaximise the efficiency, repeatability and reliability of biofilm performance (w.r.t. pathogen control) for real-world conditions.