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Science 28 April 1967:
Vol. 156. no. 3774, pp. 524 - 525
DOI: 10.1126/science.156.3774.524
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Disinfection by Electrohydraulic Treatment

Merton Allen 1 and Kenneth Soike 2

1 Chemical Systems and Processes Laboratory, Research and Development Center, General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York
2 Department of Microbiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York

Electrohydraulic treatment was applied to suspensions of Escherichia coli, spores of Bacillus subtilis var. niger, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and bacteriophage T2 at an input energy that, in most cases, was below the energy required to sterilize. The input energy was held relatively constant for each of these microorganisms, but the capacitance and voltage were varied. Data are presented which show the degree of disinfection as a function of capacitance and voltage. In all cases, the degree of disinfection for a given input energy increases as both capacitance and voltage are lowered.

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