Characterization of Bulk Water Samples from Copper Pipes Undergoing Microbially Influenced Corrosion by Diagnostic Metabolomic Profiling
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This paper presents the application of metabolomic techniques to determine the presence of microbial influenced corrosion (MIC). In a previous study, the extracellular metabolites expressed from pipe biofilm was identified by analysing the passing water. This investigation extends this work by successfully applying a chemometric statistical analysis to the extracellular metabolomic profile of a number of water samples to identify critical metabolomic biomarkers. The chemometric analysis was able to differentiate samples due to a reduction of carboxylic acids in samples exposed to bacteria believed to cause MIC.
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