Surfactant Technology Applied to Microorganism Control on Metal Surfaces
摘要
The need to increase the useful life of metallic equipmentMetallic equipment, to reduce maintenanceMaintenance costsCost, asMaintenance cost well as to control contaminationContamination in the productionProduction line, drives the demand for innovative detergentDetergent cleaningCleaning products. These products should have key characteristicsCharacteristics that allow the removal of particles on the surfacesSurface of different materials. In the case of metallic surfacesMetallic surface, they must be able to delay the adhesionAdhesion of biofilmBiofilm-forming microorganismsMicroorganism. SurfactantsSurfactant are interesting substances for different applicationsApplication. They can be of different compositionsComposition and have several functionalities, and when added to cleaningCleaning agentsCleaning agent, such as detergentsDetergent, they facilitate the removal of different types of dirt. Because they can adsorb on the surfaceSurface of objects, they have an anticorrosionAnticorrosion action, protecting the materials from suffering corrosionCorrosion. Thus, this chapter describes the recent advances in surfactantsSurfactant industries, the different types of surfactants that can be applied in cleaningCleaning metalMetal surfacesMetal surface contaminated by microorganismsMicroorganism and research that has applied surfactants as anticorrosionAnticorrosion agentsAnticorrosive agent on different metalMetal surfaces.