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Ballast water--Purification


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    • Ballast water purification
    • Ballast water treatment
    • Purification of ballast water
    • Treatment of ballast water

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    • found: Work cat.: Nielsen, B.C. Control of ballast water organisms with a seawater electrochlorination and filtration system, 2006:abstr. (ballast water treatment options include chemical biocide treatments, physical treatments, mechanical treatments, or a combination of treatments)
    • found: Perrins, J.C. Ozone treatment of ballast water for the reduction of non-indigenous aquatic organisms, 2004.
    • found: Degradation of chemical biocides with application to ballast water treatment, 2003.
    • found: Marine bioinvasions fact sheet : ballast water treatment options, via WWW, Mar. 10, 2007(Any treatment method should provide means for port authorities to easily monitor whether or not the treatment has been performed and if it was effective. This allows for enforcement of any laws regarding ballast water treatment. Because many treatment methods work by killing the organisms in ballast water, the method itself may pose a risk to human health or to the environment if the treatment is not properly contained in the ballast tanks.)
    • found: Christen, K. UN sets treatment standard for ballast water, via American Chemical Society Web site, Mar. 10, 2007(United Nations' International Maritime Organization adopted treaty, which sets the first international ballast water treatment performance standard; starting in 2009, ships will have to treat their ballast water so that discharges contain fewer than 10 viable organisms greater than or equal to 50 micrometers in size per cubic meter; several technologies have been proposed for shipboard treatment of ballast water, including filtration, chemical disinfection, ozonation, ultraviolet light sterilization, hydrocyclonic separation, and sonic bombardment)
    • found: Pacific Ballast Water Group report and recommendations : working draft, via WWW, Mar. 10, 2007:PDF p. 14 (ballast water treatment) p. 23 (ballast treatment methods) p. 51 (ballast water purification)
    • found: Google search, Mar. 10, 2007(66,200 hits for "ballast water treatment"; 3,030 for "ballast water purification")

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    • 2007-03-15: new
    • 2007-05-12: revised

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