The application of UV irradiation to disinfect water and wastewater is reported to offer additional advantages over alternative disinfection technologies, not least the absence of significant disinfection by-products, and cost-effectiveness.
A number of organisations including the USEPA and NWRI /AwwaRF have produced guidance manuals to assist the relevant utilities and agencies in assessing low-pressure UV systems for disinfection.
The CREH Analytical Ltd laboratory has the capability to carry out laboratory experiments using a collimated beam (Collimated Beam Testing (CBT)) of UV light to generate a UV dose-response relationship for a particular organism that can be used in the design and the validation of UV disinfection systems.
