Industrial Biofouling
Subtitle: Detection, Prevention and Control
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Wiley
Published: September 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780471988663
Subjects: Food & beverage technology; Hydraulic engineering; Management of land & natural resources; Microbiology (non-medical); Water supply & treatment; Science/Mathematics; Fouling organisms; Water Pollution; Science; Measurement; Industrial water supply; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Food Science; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology; Science / Microbiology; Control; Fouling
First sentence: In the environment, microorganism grow in two distinct forms; as sessile cells within a biofilm attached to an interface or surface and as planktonic organisms freely dispersed in the aqueous phase (Marshall 1994).