• Virus Roller Coasters and the Law of Averaging

  • Dec 9 2024
  • Length: 11 mins
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Virus Roller Coasters and the Law of Averaging

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  • The steady climb of a roller coaster generally leads to an exciting, stomach-turning descent. But in the world of drinking water, peaks can be stomach-turning in a much different way. To mitigate these scenarios, potable reuse systems that turn wastewater back into drinking water are often designed assuming worst-case scenarios (e.g., peak pathogen concentrations). While this is a conservative approach to public health protection, it can have adverse consequences on the sustainability of these treatment systems. This begs the question: is there another way to mitigate peak pathogen conditions?

    This episode takes a "deep dive" into disease outbreaks, the effects on wastewater pathogen concentrations, and the implications for the design of potable reuse systems. In particular, this episode focuses on hydraulics and the effects of mixing and dispersion on contaminant spikes. In other words, can we attenuate peak virus concentrations using the law of averaging ?

    This is an AI-generated podcast created with NotebookLM based on a publication in ACS ES&T Water. The original article is available here: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.1c00378

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