CONTROL OF BACTERIAL ACTIVITY, SUCH AS IN SEWERS AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS

摘要

A method for controlling the activity of sulfate reducing bacteria or methanogenic archaea (or both) in environments containing such organisms comprising treating the environment with free nitrous acid (HNO2) or with a solution containing nitrite (NO2 -) having a pH of less than 7 or by adding nitrite to the environment and having a pH of less than 7 in the environment. The method can also disrupt biofilms.