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Alkaline pH Caused Complete Viral Inactivation And Reduced Chemical Pollutants In Wastewater

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

Although different wastewater treatment methods were developed but none of them could guarantee viral removal and inactivation. That made reuse of treated wastewater a cause of viral transmission. Here we evaluated the effect of increasing pH values of wastewater on adenovirus, Herpes simplex virus type 1, rotavirus , coxsackievirus B and Influenza A virus infectivity. On inoculating each virus at a time in distilled water with pH range 8-13, results showed that viral inactivation was directly proportional to increasing both pH and incubation time and that complete inhibition of all tested viruses was achieved upon co-incubation for 1 hour with water at pH12. Same conditions also caused complete inactivation of the same viruses inoculated in sterile-autoclaved waste water. Viral inactivation due to increasing pH value to 12 was also achieved in field samples. Physico-chemical properties of wastewater samples were characterized before and after increasing pH to 12. Results showed that increasing pH caused decrease in heavy metals as well as sulphate, phosphate, bicarbonate concentrations which also suggest pH increase as mean to reduce chemical pollutants of wastewater.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2023.176414.7220

Keywords

Alkaline pH, loss of infectivity, safe reuse, Wastewater, waterborne viruses

Authors

First Name

Dina

Last Name

Abd-Elshafy

MiddleName

Nadeem

Affiliation

Water pollution research department, institute of environmental research and climate change, National research center,giza,Egypt

Email

dnanadeem@yahoo.com

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Orcid

0000-0002-2777-2487

First Name

Shimaa

Last Name

Abdel Moniem

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Water Pollution Research Department Environment and climate change Research institute , National Research centre, Cairo, Egypt

Email

drshimaanrc@gmail.com

City

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Orcid

0000-0003-1625-3865

First Name

Rola

Last Name

Nadeem

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Therapeutic chemistry department, Institute of pharmaceutical and drug industry research, National research center, Giza, Egypt

Email

rola.nadeem@hotmail.com

City

-

Orcid

0000-0000-4093-2270

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Bahgat

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Therapeutic Chemistry Department, National Research Centre (NRC), 33 EL Bohouth St. (former El Tahrir St.),

Email

mbahgatriad@yahoo.com

City

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Orcid

0000-0002-6485-8722

Volume

66

Article Issue

9

Related Issue

43167

Issue Date

2023-09-01

Receive Date

2022-11-22

Publish Date

2023-09-01

Page Start

363

Page End

374

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_280397.html

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280,397

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297

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Alkaline pH Caused Complete Viral Inactivation And Reduced Chemical Pollutants In Wastewater

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Created At

30 Dec 2024