Method for the removal and degradation of harmful disinfection byproducts from drinking water. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Mezgebe, B., K. Palanisamy,, G. Sorial, E. Sahle-Demessie, A. Aly Hassan, and J. Lu. Comparative Study on the Performance of Anaerobic and Aerobic Biotrickling Filter for Removal of Chloroform. ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Larchmont, NY, USA, 35(5): 462-471, (2017).

This study examined the removal of chloroform under two environmental conditions (anaerobic and aerobic), and in the presence of ethanol as co-metabolite. Investigations of the biological community structure within the BTFs were also conducted. The use of aerobic fungi BTF under acidic condition successfully enhanced the biodegradation process of chloroform. The BTF provided more stable performance by having smaller standard deviation in the removal efficiency as compared to the anaerobic BTF. Hence, acidic aerobic BTF had achieved significant improvement in the removal of chloroform. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Sahle-Demessie, E., J. Lu, B. Mezgebe, and G. Sorial. Performance of Anaerobic Biotrickling Filter and Its Microbial Diversity for the Removal of Stripped Disinfection By-products. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 228: 437, (2017).

This study examined the removal of chloroform under two environmental conditions (anaerobic and aerobic), and in the presence of ethanol as co-metabolite. Investigations of the biological community structure within the BTFs were also conducted. The use of aerobic fungi BTF under acidic condition successfully enhanced the biodegradation process of chloroform. The BTF provided more stable performance by having smaller standard deviation in the removal efficiency as compared to the anaerobic BTF. Hence, acidic aerobic BTF had achieved significant improvement in the removal of chloroform. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Sahle-Demessie, E., J. Lu, B. Mezgebe, and G. Sorial. Performance of Anaerobic Biotrickling Filter and Its Microbial Diversity for the Removal of Stripped Disinfection By-products. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 228: 437, (2017).

This study involves the use of biofiltration, which is a control technique to degrade trihalomethanes using a bioreactor containing living material to capture and biologically degrade pollutants. Common uses include processing waste water, capturing harmful chemicals or silt from surface runoff, and microbiotic oxidation of contaminants in air. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Mezgebe, B., G. Sorial, D. Wendell, and E. Sahle-Demessie. Effectiveness of biosurfactant for the removal of trihalomethanes by biotrickling filter. Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA, 1(1): 12031, (2019).

The bacteria sequence data generated in this study is available in the Short Read Archive (SRA) of NCBI (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) under BioProject PRJNA509718. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Siponen, S., J. Ikonen, V. Gomez-Alvarez, A. Hokajärvi, M. Ruokolainen, B. Jayaprakash, M. Kolehmainen, I.T. Miettinen, T. Pitkänen, and E. Torvinen. Effect of Pipe Material and Disinfectant on Active Bacterial Communities in Drinking Water and Biofilms. JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, USA, 136(1): lxaf004, (2025).

Complete dataset for "Impact of Filter Material and Holding Time on Spore Sampling Efficiency in Water". This dataset is associated with the following publication: Ratliff, K., A. Abdel-Hady, M. Monge, A. Mikelonis, and A. Touati. Impact of Filter Material and Holding Time on Spore Sampling Efficiency in Water. Letters in Applied Microbiology. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, USA, 76(2): ovad005, (2023).

After a wide-area biological contamination incident populations residing within minimally contaminated areas may be instructed to shelter-in-place and need to perform infection control within their homes. Previous research within HSMMD has found hot water laundering effective for the decontamination of Phi6 bacteriophage and hot water laundering + bleach effective for the decontamination of the B. anthracis surrogate Bg. This dataset expands upon previous work to include six different laundering methods, some including sanitizers, and four different microorganisms (Phi6, MS2, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Staphylococcus aureus). The dataset includes eight different textiles.

In this paper, the application of biofiltration is investigated for controlled removal of gas phase chloroform through cometabolic degradation with ethanol. A trickle bed air biofilter (TBAB) operated under acidic pH 4 is subjected to aerobic biodegradation of chloroform and ethanol. The TBAB is composed of pelleted diatomaceous earth filter media inoculated with filamentous fungi species, which served as the principle biodegrading microorganism. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Palanisamy , K., B. Mezgebe , G. Sorial, and E. Sahle-Demessie. Biofiltration of Chloroform in a Trickle Bed Air Biofilter Under Acidic Conditions. WATER, AIR, & SOIL POLLUTION. Springer, New York, NY, USA, 227: 478, (2016).

In this paper, the application of biofiltration is investigated for controlled removal of gas phase chloroform through cometabolic degradation with ethanol. A trickle bed air biofilter (TBAB) operated under acidic pH 4 is subjected to aerobic biodegradation of chloroform and ethanol. The TBAB is composed of pelleted diatomaceous earth filter media inoculated with filamentous fungi species, which served as the principle biodegrading microorganism. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Palanisamy , K., B. Mezgebe , G. Sorial, and E. Sahle-Demessie. Biofiltration of Chloroform in a Trickle Bed Air Biofilter Under Acidic Conditions. WATER, AIR, & SOIL POLLUTION. Springer, New York, NY, USA, 227: 478, (2016).