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 Dr. Herlina Abdul Rahim Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia |
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| Title: Current Research: Bacterial Contamination in Tap Supply | |
| Abstract: The number of breakthrough pathogenic activity in water distribution network system is constantly increasing day by day especially at level of consumption. Bacterial growth or survival rate often relates to acidity and alkalinity of water. Sudden changes in pH value and temperature indicates a possibility of present bacterial contaminant in aqueous environment. The observation of pH- and temperature based for tap water supply samples in Malaysia regions therefore was determined. On the basis of the findings, the observed pH value was compared to the recommended range for pH tap and drinking water, which is between 6.5-8.5. A significant spread can be seen among the measured parameters within the range of pH and temperature at 6.00 to 8.65 and 19.20 to 32.00 °C, respectively. There is a statistically significant difference between each sampling regions based on the measured pH value (DF4,145 = 44.79, p < 0.05) determined by one-way ANOVA. The pH value and temperature evidence significant effects by various environmental conditions (air temperature, weather, humidity etc.). There appears to be a negative Pearson correlation between the two water parameters in region WM01 (r = -0.352, p > 0.05), WM02 (r = -0.207,p > 0.05), WM04 (r = -0.334, p > 0.05) and WM05 (r = -0.21, p > 0.05). | |
| Biography: Herlina Abdul Rahim received a B.Eng in Electrical Engineering (Control and Instrumentation) and M.Sc in Electrical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 1998 and 2000, respectively. She received her Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi MARA, in 2009. At present she is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She is currently a Deputy Director (Corporate Management) at Research Management Centre in UTM. Her current research interests are sensor technology and artificial intelligent system. She actively involved in R&D and to date, she has filed 72 IPR including patent filings and copyrights. She has won many medals for her inventions and innovations at international and local research exhibition. She has also published more than 200 research articles in international journals, proceedings, book chapters and research monographs. She is a senior member of the IEEE, a Professional Engineer of Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM), a corporate member of the Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) and Chartered Engineer, the Institute of Engineering and Technology . | |
