It is essential to preserve the quality of natural mineral water from its origin to the points of use, so as to ensure sanitary safety for patients within the thermal spas. The complexity of water systems may lead to issues linked to microbiological and physico-chemical contaminations which are necessary to be solved in order to keep the installations in compliance with the regulations in force. In order to provide the thermal spa sector with means to achieve this goal, the team at the Institut du Thermalisme – Bordeaux University aimed at finding a relevant solution, i.e. designing and making two original and innovating prototypes which reproduce – in miniature – the natural mineral water system we can find in thermal spas. These two prototypes are different due to the nature of the materials they are made of. It is possible to get significant improvements in the research: on the one hand, linked to the general working of a thermal water system connected to individual or collective care units and, on the other hand, improvements in the research on keeping the quality of natural mineral water. Also, to solve microbiological and physico-chemical contamination issues, chemical and thermal treatments can be used.
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August 04 2015
Creation of innovative experimental prototypes to meet health safety challenges in thermal spas
Karine Dubourg;
1Institut du Thermalisme, Université de Bordeaux, 8, Rue Sainte Ursule, 40100, Dax, France
E-mail: karine.dubourg@u-bordeaux.fr
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Joël Lagière;
Joël Lagière
1Institut du Thermalisme, Université de Bordeaux, 8, Rue Sainte Ursule, 40100, Dax, France
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Sébastien Labarthe;
Sébastien Labarthe
1Institut du Thermalisme, Université de Bordeaux, 8, Rue Sainte Ursule, 40100, Dax, France
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Céline Ohayon
Céline Ohayon
1Institut du Thermalisme, Université de Bordeaux, 8, Rue Sainte Ursule, 40100, Dax, France
2Laboratoire Hydrologie Environnement (LHE), UFR des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, Université de Bordeaux, 146 rue Léo Saignat, 33076, Bordeaux Cedex, France
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Water Supply (2016) 16 (1): 87–96.
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Received:
April 30 2015
Accepted:
July 21 2015
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Karine Dubourg, Joël Lagière, Sébastien Labarthe, Céline Ohayon; Creation of innovative experimental prototypes to meet health safety challenges in thermal spas. Water Supply 1 February 2016; 16 (1): 87–96. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2015.117
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