Higher Temperatures Fight Bacteria

Not exactly a new discovery since U.S. health departments have required restaurants to rinse eating utensils and dishes in 130 degree F water for bacterial sterilization for many decades.

Has anybody calculated the energy (and possibly capital) costs to raise the temperature of all municipal wastewater by 13 to 15 degrees C?

I think alternative approaches need to be developed and considered.

you would basically run it in a pasteurizer, it depends what type of pathogen they want to kill.

It all is a matter of time and heat. shorter the time, higher the heat the heat (HTST, High Heat Short Time) requirement, or longer the time, lower the heat required. (Done through a holding tube).

I do not have the time to do the energy calcs.

But with the volume requirements, one would use as we call it in the dairy industry Regen to reclaim the some of the heat, (in other industries I believe its called reclaim.)

Attaching an extra add-on application to a soliel Power Plant( Mirrored panels that are used for energy in the desert , water is heated through a copper pipe and it produces electricity out of the heated waters steam.)

This might save money if higher heat degrees for killing bacteria meant raising the price of clean water.The mirrored panels directed at the sun were designed to save on energy costs.

Instead of producing electricity, if its possible ,maybe soleil could be used to make both energy and clean water.DS