Desalination & Water Purification Research and Development Program Report No. 196 - Demonstrating Enhanced Pathogen Removal - March 2017

Sep 26, 2026

Desalination & Water Purification Research and Development Program Report No. 196 documents a project focused on potable reuse. The work conducts challenge tests to quantify virus removal and to evaluate both standard and novel surrogates for tracking virus removal performance. The report also identifies surrogates that deliver higher removal credit than traditionally used methods while remaining conservative across normal and compromised operating conditions.

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CategoryResearch & Report

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Pages363

Reading Time15 h 15 min

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Abstract

Project challenge tests

Surrogate evaluation and removal credit

Conservatism under normal and compromised conditions

Subject terms

Desalination and Water Purification Research and Development Program Report No . 196 Realizing Reverse Osmosis Potential for Potable Reuse: Demonstrating Enhanced Pathogen Removal U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation Technical Service Center Denver, Colorado March 2017 | REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE | | | | | | | Form Approved
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Final | | | | 3. DATES COVERED (From-To)
2015-2017 | | 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE
Realizing Reverse Osmosis Potential for Potable Reuse: Demonstrating Enhanced Pathogen Removal | | | | | | 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER
Agreement No. R16AC00132 | | | | | | | | | 5b. GRANT NUMBER | | | | | | | | | 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER | | | 6. AUTHOR(S)
R. Shane Trussell, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE Rodrigo A. Tackaert
Aleksey N. Pisarenko, Ph.D.
Eileen Y. Idica, Ph.D., P.E.
R. Rhodes Trussell, Ph.D., P.E., BCEETrussell Technologies, Inc.
Julie Minton
Water Environment & Reuse Foundation
Participating Utility: City of San Diego Public Utilities Water and Wastewater | | | | | | 5d. PROJECT NUMBER | | | | | | | | | 5e. TASK NUMBER | | | | | | | | | 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER | | | 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
Trussell Technologies, Inc.
Water Environment & Reuse Foundation
Participating Utility: City of San Diego Public Utilities Water and Wastewater | | | | | | | 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER | | 9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
Bureau of Reclamation
U.S. Department of the Interior
Denver Federal Center
PO Box 25007, Denver, CO 80225-0007 | | | | | | | 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S) Reclamation | | | | | | | | | 11. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S REPORT NUMBER(S)
DWPR Report No. 196 | | 12. DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
Online at [https://www.usbr.gov/research/dwpr/DWPR_Reports.html](https://www.usbr.gov/research/dwpr/DWPR_Reports.html) | | | | | | | | | 13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES | | | | | | | | | 14. ABSTRACT
This Project (1) performed challenge tests to establish the degree of virus removal and ability of standard and novel surrogates to track virus removal and (2) identified surrogates that provide higher removal credit than traditionally employed methodologies while being conservative under both normal and compromised conditions. | | | | | | | | | 15. SUBJECT TERMS
desalination, reverse osmosis, virus removal | | | | | | | | | 16. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: | | | | 17. LIMITATION
OF ABSTRACT
U | 18. NUMBER OF PAGES
341 | 19a. NAME OF RESPONSIBLE PERSON Yuliana Porras-Mendoza | | | a. REPORT U | b. ABSTRACT U | THIS PAGE
U | | | | 19b. TELEPHONE NUMBER (Include area code) 303-445-2264 | | Standard Form 298 (Rev. 8/98) Prescribed by ANSI Std. Z39.18 Desalination & Water Purification Research and Development Program Report No. 196 Re

FAQs

What does the project in Report No. 196 evaluate?

It performs challenge tests to establish the degree of virus removal and evaluates standard and novel surrogates for tracking virus removal.

How are the surrogates assessed in the report?

The report identifies surrogates that provide higher removal credit than traditionally employed methodologies while remaining conservative.

Under what conditions must removal credit remain conservative?

The report states conservatism under both normal and compromised conditions.

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