Journal
ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY
Volume 57, Issue -, Pages 147-165Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2019.05.009
Keywords
Cavitation; Microorganisms; Destruction; Mechanisms; Review
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- Slovenian Research Agency [P2-0401, Z2-8188]
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Framework Program for research and innovation, Horizon 2020 [771567 - CABUM]
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A sudden decrease in pressure triggers the formation of vapour and gas bubbles inside a liquid medium (also called cavitation). This leads to many (key) engineering problems: material loss, noise, and vibration of hydraulic machinery. On the other hand, cavitation is a potentially useful phenomenon: the extreme conditions are increasingly used for a wide variety of applications such as surface cleaning, enhanced chemistry, and wastewater treatment (bacteria eradication and virus inactivation). Despite this significant progress, a large gap persists between the understanding of the mechanisms that contribute to the effects of cavitation and its application. Although engineers are already commercializing devices that employ cavitation, we are still not able to answer the fundamental question: What precisely are the mechanisms how bubbles can clean, disinfect, kill bacteria and enhance chemical activity? The present paper is a thorough review of the recent (from 2005 onward) work done in the fields of cavitation-assisted microorganism's destruction and aims to serve as a foundation to build on in the next years.
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