Microbiology Of Well Biofouling (Sustainable Water Well)

Content: Cover
 Half Title
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 PREFACE
 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 Table of Contents
 1: INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW
 Challenge of Deep Subsurface Microbiology
 The Ground Water Environment
 Microbial Mechanisms of Colonization and Growth
 Management of Microbial Activities
 2: CONCEPTS
 Microbial Dynamics of Biofilms
 Biofilm Maturation
 Bacteriology of Plugging
 3. DIRECT EVIDENCE OF A BACTERIAL EVENT
 Visible Manifestations
 White or Clear slime
 Grey slime
 Black slime
 Orange, Red, and Brown slimes
 Tuberculous growths
 Cloudiness
 Coloration of the water
 Odorous Signals Rotten Egg smellFish smell
 Earthy smell
 Fecal (sewage) smell
 Fresh vegetable smell
 Chemical smell
 Differentiation of Microbial Forms in Biofouling Events
 Ribbon Formers, Gallionella
 Tube Formers (Sheathed Bacteria)
 Consortial Heterotrophic Incumbents
 CHI Generic Groupings
 Pseudomonads
 Enteric Bacteria
 Sulfur Bacteria, Sulfate-reducing Bacteria
 Other Sulfur Bacteria
 Archaeobacteria
 Methanogenic archaeobacteria
 Extreme halophilic archaeobacteria
 Extreme thermophilic archaeobacteria
 Gram-Positive Cocci
 Endospore Forming Gram Positive Rods
 Filamentous Actinomycètes Fungi (molds)Algae (micro-plants)
 4: MONITORING METHODOLOGIES FOR BIOFOULING EVENTS
 Introduction
 Direct Inspection
 Indirect Inspection
 Variability in Cell Numbers in a CFU
 Nutrient Concentrations in Agar Culture Media
 Environmental Conditions for Incubation
 Microbial Evaluation, A Conceptual Approach
 Viable Units (vu)
 Aggressivity
 Simple Field Test Methods
 Rodina Test
 Cholodny Test
 Grainge and Limd Test
 GAQCTest
 BART™ Test
 Microscopic Investigation for Iron-Related Bacteria
 Olanczuk-Neyman Method
 Meyers Stain
 Leuschow and Mackenthum Direct MF Technique . Negative Wet Mount StainGram Stain
 Spread-Plate Enumeration
 Selection of the Appropriate Agar Medium
 A A agar
 Brain Heart Infusion Agar/4 (BHI/4)
 Czapek-Dox agar (CD)
 LES Endo agar
 Lipovitellin-salt-mannitol agar
 M-FCICagar
 M-HPCagar
 Mn agar
 M-PA agar
 Pfizer selective enterococcus (PSE) agar
 Plate count agar
 Potato Dextrose agar (PD)
 R2Aagar
 Starch-casein agar
 Triple sugar iron agar(TSA)
 Tryptone glucose extract agar
 Wong's medium
 WRagar
 Choice of Culture Medium
 Dispersion of Particulates (vortexing)
 Serial (extinction) Dilution of the Water Sample . Dispensing of Diluant onto Agar SurfaceDrying the Agar Surface
 Selection of Incubation Conditions
 Counting Colonies on a Spread-plate
 Computing the cfu/ml or cfu/100ml
 Streaked spread-plate (calculation formula)
 Spread-plate Enumeration of Bacterial Loadings .
 Spread-plate Bacterial Population Relationships
 Membrane Filter (calculation formula)
 Coliform Testing
 Multiple Tube Method
 Membrane Filter (MF)
 Presence/Absence Coliform Test
 ONPG Test for Coliforms
 MUG Test for Escherichia coli
 Enumeration by Sequential Dilution Techniques .
 5: ABOVT THE BART™
 Methodologies