The maximum recorded relative breakthrough was 0.32 (UCFL-94;
Table 3.2
)
, and minimum
breakthrough was 0.0036 (strain 2049;
Table 3.2
)
. From this we concluded that under these
completely identical flow conditions in our 7 cm column, variations in the characteristics of the
E. coli
strains had caused relative breakthrough variations of two log units (
Fig. 3.1
)
. In general,
calculated attachment efficiencies (
Table 3.2
)
ranged from 0.3 to 1. However, a number of
calculated attachment efficiencies were above unity, which is theoretically impossible.
