Table 1 A literature survey on effect of cell adhesion in various process applications
Application area | Effects of cell adhesion | References |
|---|---|---|
Water systems | Contamination of purified water. Blockage of valves and entrapment of particles in waste water pipeline | Melo and Bott (1997) |
Food related | Processing equipment are prone to contamination leads to germ-infested products | |
Maritime | Reduce the speed, increase fuel consumption and maintenance cost and ultimately mechanical failure | Callow and Callow (2002) |
Oil | Damage of underwater cable and piping, platform wreckage | Sanders and Sturman (2005) |
Paper | Operation failure and in a loss of product quality | Flemming et al. (2013) |
Health | Dental plaque, infection with contact lens | Saini et al. 2011) |
Industrial bioprocessing | Fouling of filtration membranes, fouling of EBA adsorbents, increase process cost |