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Selected Articles and Papers

Metalworking Fluid Microbiology  

Controlling Coolant Contamination, Machine and Tool Blue Book, 1986.

Microbial Problems in Metalworking Fluids.  Lub. Eng. 1988

Controlling Microbial Contamination in Metal Working Fluids., In: Metal Working Fluids, 1992

Biocides for Lubricant Rancidity and Biofouling Prevention, Iron and Steel Eng.  1997. 

Reassessing the Health Risks Associated with Employee Exposure to Metalworking Fluid Microbes. Lub. Eng. 2002

Microbes in Metalworking Fluids, What We Need to Know. Tribiol. Trans. 2008

Relationship between Mycobacteria and Non-mycobacteria in Metalworking Fluids, TLT, MAR 2009

Real-Time Testing of Bioburdens in Metalworking Fluids Using Adenosine Triphosphate as Biomass Indicator, TLT MAR 2010

Fuel and Fuel System Microbiology 

Unncontrolled Microbes Eat Ernings, NPN     1994 

Knowing When You Have Microbial Contamination, NPN     1994

Controlling Microbial Contamination, NPN     1995

Opening Your Biocide Toolbox, NPN      1995 

Microbes and Fuel Retailing; The Hidden Costs of Quality, NPN    1999   

Microbially Influenced Corrosion and Filter Plugging     2001 

Composite Material Biodeterioration Bibliography - NOV03

Microbes and Fuel Systems: The Overlooked Corrosion Problem     2001 

Oxygenated Gasoline Biodeterioration and its Control in Laboratory Microcosms. Intl. Biodeter. Biodeg.  2001

Can Non-Chamical Antimicrobial Devices Replace or Augment Fuel-Treatmen Microbicides - Presented at 12th Intl. Conf on Stability & Handling of Liquid Fuels, 16-20 October 2011, Starasota FL. New!

    Microbiological Test Methods

Non-conventional Methods for Estimating Fuel System bioburdens Rapidly,   2003 

Using ATP to Quantify Biomass in Fuel Systems, TAE Fuel Colloquium, JAN 2009

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