Abstract

Waterborne pathogens affect all waters globally and proceed to be a ongoing concern. The act to provide clean water by filtration is effective although has concerns. Previous methods for detection and removal of pathogens consist of a high test time, a high sample consumption, very expensive and require specialist operators. This paper investigates the design of an active microfluidic technology to prototype a smart monitoring system to detect waterborne pathogen movement. Results provide areas of opportunities to fabricate microchannels with a high recovery rate (88%) to embedded sensors e.g. optical fiber sensors to detect pathogens at certain flow rates. Major advantages defeat drawbacks by reducing test time and sample consumption whilst being less expensive.

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