ArticleACS ES&T water2025
Untangling the Effects of Hydraulic Design on Opportunistic Pathogen Growth Potential with an at-Scale Plumbing Rig.
Article in ACS ES&T water, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Premise Plumbing "CT" (PPCT) as a Control Parameter for Opportunistic Pathogens.ACS ES&T water · 2026Article
- Microbial Growth Curve Framework Provides Insights for Controlling Opportunistic Pathogens in Building Plumbing.ACS ES&T water · 2026Article
- Complexity of Chloramine Decay Kinetics in Premise Plumbing.ACS ES&T water · 2026Article
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Abstract
A building plumbing rig experiment simultaneously examined how water temperature (cold/hot lines), influent disinfectant residual (0-1 mg/L chloramine), flow rate (0.5-2.2 gpm), and water retention time (WRT) of 0-17-days impacted water quality at the point of use. In cold water lines with no disinfectant, WRT was a key driver of bacterial growth, with total cell counts (TCC) in the water increasing by up to 20× relative to influent water at 6.7-days WRT. A chloramine residual in cold influent water suppressed the maximum TCC by about 50%, even after the residual was no longer measurable. When the water heater set point was warm (40 °C) with minimal or 1 mg/L Cl
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