Microorganisms’ Killing: Chemical Disinfection vs. Electrodisinfection

Chlorination is the most used technique of killing microorganisms’ in water through the potable water industry. Some outbreaks of water born disease, the definition of chlorine as a source of greatly toxic disinfection by-products (DBPs), and the appearance of recalcitrant microbes have conducted to revised regulation for the elimination of microorganisms and DBPs from potable water. Therefore, researching new disinfection techniques has been developed. Electrochemical disinfection or electrodisinfection (ED) has appeared as one of the more valuable alternatives to chlorination. Research employing a range of cell designs has illustrated ED to be efficient towards an interval of microbes. Nevertheless, in several cases, killing pathogens’ performance seems to be linked to the production of chlorine species. The obvious dominance of chlorine in the form of the pathway of killing microbes’ emerges the interrogation if ED is really more beneficial than chlorination in a matter of its demobilization performance and risk to generate DBPs. Convenient ED devices must be designed and monitored sophistically since the present state of non-monitored use of ED devices is not favorable in terms of hygienic and health risks considerations. Great works remain to be performed