Thermal disinfection is probably the oldest water treatment method ever used. Similarly to other disinfection processes, it targets the inactivation of pathogenic (micro)organisms present in water, wastewater and other media. In this work, a pilot-scale continuous-flow thermal disinfection system was investigated using highly contaminated hospital wastewater as influent without any pre-treatment step for turbidity removal. The results proved that the tested system can be used with influent turbidity as high as 100 NTU and still provide up to log 8 microbial inactivation. Further results have shown energy consumption comparable to other commercially available thermal disinfection systems and relatively low influence on the investigated physical–chemical parameters.

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中试规模连续流系统中医院废水的热消毒

热消毒可能是有史以来最古老的水处理方法。与其他消毒过程类似，它的目标是使水，废水和其他介质中存在的病原（微生物）失活。在这项工作中，研究人员使用了高度污染的医院废水作为进水，而没有任何去除浊度的预处理步骤的中试规模连续流热消毒系统。结果证明，该测试系统可用于高达100 NTU的进水浊度，并且仍可提供高达log 8的微生物灭活。进一步的结果表明，其能耗可与其他商用热消毒系统相媲美，并且对所研究的理化参数的影响相对较小。