Antimicrobial Polypropylene as Material for Safe Water Supply

Abstract

As the drinking water supply system is a risk factor for the degradation of the quality of the water intended for human consumption, the opportunity to use pipes made from antimicrobial materials is a solution to eliminate the microbiological risk to which consumers are permanently exposed. This study investigates the antimicrobial potential of polypropylene pipes containing silver nanoparticles while using Escherichia Coli as the reference microorganism. In order to better emphasize the advantages of using antimicrobial pipes, the trials were conducted in comparison with polypropylene random (the most commonly used material for the construction of drinking water supply systems).