A calorimetric study of energy conversion efficiency of a sonochemical reactor at 500 kHz for organic solvents.

It would seem that the economic viability is yet to be established for a great number of sonochemical processes, owning to their perfectible ultrasonic equipments. Industrial scale sonoreactors may become more important as a result of mastering the parameters with influence on their energy balance. This work related the solvent type to the energy efficiency as the first step of a complex study aiming to assess the energy balance of sonochemical reactors at 500 kHz.

Inactivation of Escherichia coli and Streptococcus mutans by ultrasound at 500kHz.

This paper shows a systematic study of the 500 kHz frequency ultrasound efficiency on the microbial inactivation as a function of ultrasonic power delivered into the bacterial suspension. The inactivation of Escherichia coli IAM 12058, a Gram-negative bacterium and Streptococcus mutans JCM 5175, a Gram-positive bacterium is enhanced by increasing the ultrasonic power in the range of 1.7-12.