Thesis (Ph. D.)--Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. / Wang Yuhang, Committee Chair ; Cunnold Derek, Committee Member ; Weber Rodney, Committee Member ; Nenes Athanasios, Committee Member ; Guillas Serge, Committee Member.

Thesis (Msc Food Sc (Food Science))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / Distilleries are an example of an agricultural industry that generates large volumes of wastewater. These wastewaters are heavily polluted, and due to the seasonal nature of the product, the amount and composition of the wastewater may exhibit major daily and seasonal variations. Wine-distillery wastewaters (WDWWs) typically are acidic (pH 3.5 - 5.0) and have a high organic content (sugars, alcohol, proteins, carbohydrates and lipids), a COD range of 10 000 – 60 000 mg.L-1, have a high suspended solids content as well as containing various inorganic compounds. Additionally refractory compounds present in these wastewaters, such as polyphenols, can be toxic for biological processes, making the selection of a suitable treatment process problematic. Wetlands have been shown to be a feasible treatment for effluent originating from wine, however, they are normally used as a secondary treatment method and not well suited for high volume, high COD (> 5 000 mg.L-1) wastewaters. Ozone has been successfully used as a pre-treatment for WDWW due to its oxidising capabilities to partially biodegrade organics and non-biodegradable organics, and reduce polyphenols, which results in an increase in biodegradability. Currently a wetland system is being used on its own at a distillery to treat wastewater from a series of stabilisation dams, but the legal requirement for discharge into a natural resource (COD < 75 mg.L-1) is not being met. Additional treatments suited for WDWW are therefore being considered. Wine-distillery wastewater was characterised and found to show a large variation over time (COD ranging from 12 609 - 21 150 mg.L-1). Ozonation of WDWWs was found to be effective in decreasing COD over a wide range of organic loads. For pre-wetland wastewater from the distillery, an average COD reduction of 271 mg COD.g O3-1 was found, and for post-wetland effluent, an average of 103 mg COD.g O3-1. The effect of ozone on the biodegradability of the wastewater was monitored by activity tests, and a low ozone dose (200 - 400 mg O3.L-1) was found to increase activity in terms of biogas, methane and cumulative gas volumes. By showing an increase in the biodegradability of WDWW, it was concluded that ozone has potential as a pre-treatment step to increase the effectiveness of a biological wetland system. Lab-scale wetlands were used in trials to determine the effect of pre- and post-ozonation on WDWW. It was found that the efficiency of the wetland receiving the pre-ozonated “off-season” WDWW (2 200 mg COD.L-1) had a higher COD reduction (73%) than the wetland fed with untreated (62% COD reduction) WDWW, and the total polyphenol content was reduced by 40 and 31%, respectively. Treatment efficiency in terms of the reduction of colour, total solids, suspended solids and phosphates were also greatly improved for the pre-ozonated WDWW. Similar results were found when treating high COD “peak season” (7 000 mg COD.L-1) WDWW, with higher reduction rates for the wetland treating pre-ozonated WDWW (84% COD reduction) than for the wetland fed with untreated WDWW (74% COD reduction), and the total polyphenol content was reduced by 76 and 72%, respectively. Post-ozonation was also shown to be beneficial in that it improved the final effluent quality leaving the wetland system. Increasing the hydraulic retention time (HRT) of the wetlands from 9 days to 12 days resulted in similar COD reductions for the control and experimental wetland, highlighting the benefits that pre-ozonation has on reducing the acclimatisation period. Therefore using ozone as a pre-treatment could help in reducing the wetland size, HRT and allow increased volumes of wastewater to be treated. In this study ozone was successfully utilised to reduce COD levels in wine-distillery wastewater, and increase the biodegradability of the wastewater. This study also showed that ozone, used as a pre-treatment to a wetland system, can contribute to improving the performance of a wetland system in terms of higher removal efficiencies. Wetlands are, however, unsuited for treating high strength COD wastewater, and the final effluent was still well above the South African legal limit for direct discharge into a natural resource. The results obtained during this study contributed to developing a method to achieve a more efficient treatment system utilising wetlands for the distillery industry, and can be of value in facilitating efficient environmental management.

This thesis investigated the emission and transport of very short–lived halogens (VSLS) over the tropics. VSLS are described as organic halogen gases with lifetimes of less than 6 months. In areas of rapid convective transport they reach the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere where they contribute to total bromine loading (~20 pptv) in the stratosphere that is a cause of ozone (O3) depletion. This thesis investigated speed of transport in the tropics using model age of air (Chapter 3), the strength of VSLS source regions in tropical troposphere (Chapter 4), and quantification of their monthly emission fluxes (Chapter 5). The two most abundant VSLS bromoform (CHBr3) and CH2Br2 were focussed on. A new model age of air calculation was used to describe transport of ocean emissions in the tropical latitudes. Age of air describes how long an air mass has been out of contact with the emission source region. The two most rapid convection regions of the Indian Ocean (InO) and Western Pacific (WPa) showed age of air in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) to be 25 days. This is similar to the lifetime of CHBr3 (24 days). Using age of air estimated from simulations covering 1989–2013, it was shown how strong El Niño events can increase the age of air over the WPa by 5–7 days in the mid–troposphere, and up to 12 days in the TTL. This increase in age was due to a change in the Walker Circulation, weakening convection in the WPa and increasing convection over the CPa. Over this period, it was shown that age decreases in the tropical circulation system (the Hadley Cell). Decreasing age results from increasing convection, and more rapid transport of VSLS to the upper troposphere, lower stratosphere (UTLS). To study regional emission sources over the WPa, a tagged CHBr3 and CH2Br2 model was developed. It is the first study to quantify how open and coastal emissions contribute separately to the vertical profiles of CHBr3 and CH2Br2 in the WPa. Variability over the WPa is dominated by an open oceanic emission source, with enhanced coastal emissions influencing concentrations in the upper troposphere. Estimations of 3.14 pptv of CHBr3 and CH2Br2 contribution to TTL Bry were in agreement with recent observational studies (3.27 pptv, Navarro et al. (2015)) over the same region. Comparison with aircraft observations showed that the model has a positive bias and this is attributed to over estimation of model emissions. Ground–based observations were used in an inverse model to estimate surface emissions of CHBr3. This method has not been previously used to estimate CHBr3 emissions. The monthly a posteriori emissions had seasonal cycles in the northern and southern hemisphere coastal emissions, and reductions over tropical open oceans. A posteriori emissions were put in to the model and the predicted volume mixing ratios were able to reproduce ground stations observations over the mid–latitude and tropical stations, important for convective transport of VSLS. The model still showed a bias when compared to CAST and CONTRAST aircraft observations over the Western Pacific, but the mean model minus observed residual was reduced by around 0.3 pptv and 0.1 pptv for respective CAST and CONTRAST campaigns from the a priori emissions.

This thesis consists of three distinct parts of CAST, CONTRAST and ATTREX, which were aircraft and field campaigns in the West Pacific in January-March 2014. The first section comprises of ozonesonde measurements from Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. A contamination issue affected the first 14 ozonesondes, and so particular care was required to characterize the background current, and as a result, a 'hybrid' background current correction was developed, which combines a constant correction with a pressure dependent correction. Collocated measurements with the CONTRAST aircraft - the NCAR Gulfsteam V - suggests the new hybrid correction produces better ozonesonde profiles than the other corrections that are found in the literature. The results of the ozonesonde measurements revealed a low-ozone event, with minimum ozone concentrations of ~12 ppbv, which was coincident with an easterly jet, and traced back to an area of deep convection: clean marine boundary layer air was uplifted into the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) and then advected in the easterly jet across to Manus Island. The second section attempted to find more examples of low-ozone conditions in the TTL from the aircraft data. The ATTREX aircraft - the NASA Northrop Grumman Global Hawk - observed ozone concentrations of ~10 ppbv in the Southern Hemisphere in proximity of tropical storm Lusi. Whole air samples from all three aircraft suggests the low-ozone air had recently encountered the boundary layer, with enhanced concentrations of surface-generated very short lived substances (VSLSs) compared to air with higher ozone concentrations. No low-ozone events were found in the Northern Hemisphere, even in the vicinity of tropical cyclone Faxai. The third section explores the low-ozone events in the WRF-Chem (Weather Research and Forecasting - with chemistry) in order to see whether the model was capable of recreating the low-ozone event measured by the ozonesondes on 21-23 February as a case study. The WRF-Chem simulation did correctly reproduce the large convective storm in a similar area to that observed by satellites, and surface tracers were uplifted in large quantities as hypothesized. However, no evidence of injection of air into the stratosphere was found in the simulation, and, rather than uplift directly from the surface, mixing of air in the boundary layer followed by uplift into the TTL was the main mechanism for producing the low-ozone event.

Air quality monitoring is one of several important tasks carried out in the area of environmental science and engineering. Accordingly, the development of air quality predictive models can be very useful as such models can provide early warnings of pollution levels increasing to unsatisfactory levels. The literature review conducted within the research context of this thesis revealed that only a limited number of widely used machine learning algorithms have been employed for the modelling of the concentrations of atmospheric gases such as ozone, nitrogen oxides etc. Despite this observation the research and technology area of machine learning has recently advanced significantly with the introduction of ensemble learning techniques, convolutional and deep neural networks etc. Given these observations the research presented in this thesis aims to investigate the effective use of ensemble learning algorithms with optimised algorithmic settings and the appropriate choice of base layer algorithms to create effective and efficient models for the prediction and forecasting of specifically, ground level ozone (O3). Three main research contributions have been made by this thesis in the application area of modelling O3 concentrations. As the first contribution, the performance of several ensemble learning (Homogeneous and Heterogonous) algorithms were investigated and compared with all popular and widely used single base learning algorithms. The results have showed impressive prediction performance improvement obtainable by using meta learning (Bagging, Stacking, and Voting) algorithms. The performances of the three investigated meta learning algorithms were similar in nature giving an average 0.91 correlation coefficient, in prediction accuracy. Thus as a second contribution, the effective use of feature selection and parameter based optimisation was carried out in conjunction with the application of Multilayer Perceptron, Support Vector Machines, Random Forest and Bagging based learning techniques providing significant improvements in prediction accuracy. The third contribution of research presented in this thesis includes the univariate and multivariate forecasting of ozone concentrations based of optimised Ensemble Learning algorithms. The results reported supersedes the accuracy levels reported in forecasting Ozone concentration variations based on widely used, single base learning algorithms. In summary the research conducted within this thesis bridges an existing research gap in big data analytics related to environment pollution modelling, prediction and forecasting where present research is largely limited to using standard learning algorithms such as Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines often available within popular commercial software packages.

137 f. / Submitted by Ana Hilda Fonseca (anahilda@ufba.br) on 2013-04-05T12:52:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE_Doutorado_Neuza Neves.pdf: 14182671 bytes, checksum: 1dc20a7a01160b563c11a087932580c1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Hilda Fonseca(anahilda@ufba.br) on 2013-06-07T14:39:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE_Doutorado_Neuza Neves.pdf: 14182671 bytes, checksum: 1dc20a7a01160b563c11a087932580c1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-06-07T14:39:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE_Doutorado_Neuza Neves.pdf: 14182671 bytes, checksum: 1dc20a7a01160b563c11a087932580c1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Ozônio pode afetar a saúde humana sendo a ele atribuída a responsabilidade por centenas de milhares de mortes prematuras a cada ano e por centenas de internações hospitalares adicionais, além da perda de milhões de dias de trabalho. Estes impactos na saúde são causados tanto por exposições a longo prazo (crônica) quanto a curto prazo (aguda). De forma semelhante a que ocorre atualmente próximo às grandes cidades do mundo e aos centros industriais, as concentrações ambientais de ozônio estavam ultrapassando o padrão de qualidade do ar estabelecido no Brasil, nas vizinhanças do Pólo Petroquímico de Camaçari, especialmente durante os anos de 2000 a 2003. Com o objetivo de avaliar a formação e dispersão de ozônio na região do Recôncavo Baiano, foi desenvolvido um estudo, usando modelagem matemática, para melhor compreender as principais fontes dos precursores de ozônio, bem como sua formação e dispersão na referida região. A metodologia adotada no estudo foi a elaboração de um inventário de emissões atmosféricas para as regiões urbanas e industriais e utilização do modelo matemático fotoquímico denominado STEM III – Sulfur Transport and Deposition Model, da Universidade de Iowa (USA), para simular a formação e dispersão deste poluente fotoquímico secundário na atmosfera na região do Recôncavo Baiano. Os resultados do modelo foram comparados com as concentrações medidas por uma rede de monitoramento contínuo da qualidade do ar do Pólo Petroquímico, referente a um período em abril de 2003. Concluiu-se que os resultados calculados para ozônio na região do Recôncavo Baiano, através do modelo matemático STEM são adequados, uma vez que há concordância satisfatória com os dados medidos. Os desvios encontrados ocorreram especificamente durante os episódios com baixas velocidades do vento, quando foram registrados picos de concentrações deste poluente próximo ao Pólo Petroquímico de Camaçari. Os modelos matemáticos meteorológicos não descrevem adequadamente a situação real quando a velocidade do vento é inferior a 1 m/s. ix Os resultados das simulações demonstram que a formação de ozônio ocorre em regiões situadas muito além dos locais onde estão situadas as estações de monitoramento do ar do Pólo, e atinge áreas distantes de Salvador e da região industrial, como Feira de Santana e Santo Estevão, situadas a jusante dos ventos que sopram do quadrante Este, predominantes na região. Todas as concentrações calculadas para ozônio foram inferiores ao limite de 160 µg/m3 estabelecidas pela Resolução CONAMA 003/90, para períodos horários e portanto, não deverão causar impactos na saúde humana. No entanto as concentrações encontradas até cerca de 100 a 150 Km das fontes consideradas podem afetar os ecossistemas pois as concentrações máximas simuladas estão próximas do limite de 40 ppb.h (do inglês:Accumulated Dose Over Threshold of 40 ppb.h - AOT40), na região Oeste e Noroeste do domínio estudado. O regime de formação de ozônio na região de Camaçari e de Candeias é limitado pelo NOx, e as reduções das emissões de NO2 efetuadas pelo Pólo Petroquímico à partir de 2004 resultaram na eliminação das violações dos limites de ozônio na sua região de influência. Considerando-se o atual cenário de desenvolvimento do Brasil, em dez anos as concentrações de ozônio nas áreas costeiras do Recôncavo poderão representar uma ameaça para a produtividade agrícola desenvolvida na região situada no interior da Bahia, e eventualmente poderão representar também uma ameaça para a saúde humana, a depender do aumento das emissões, particularmente veiculares. / Salvador

BARROS, Allen Lopes de. Estudos de degradação de fármacos em meio aquoso por processos oxidativos avançados. 2014. 99 f. Tese (doutorado em química)- Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza-CE, 2014. / Submitted by Elineudson Ribeiro (elineudsonr@gmail.com) on 2016-04-05T17:40:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_albarros.pdf: 3063549 bytes, checksum: a95b83f685ed44a7833c464cf5e4a41c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by José Jairo Viana de Sousa (jairo@ufc.br) on 2016-05-20T18:30:12Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_albarros.pdf: 3063549 bytes, checksum: a95b83f685ed44a7833c464cf5e4a41c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-20T18:30:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_albarros.pdf: 3063549 bytes, checksum: a95b83f685ed44a7833c464cf5e4a41c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / The use of PET as a support material for TiO2 films in advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for water treatment was investigated. A green, low-cost immobilization procedure was developed and the amount of deposited photocatalyst ranged from 0.036 to 0.202 mg per cm2 PET. Photocatalytic activity of the films was evidenced by degrading paracetamol solutions under UV radiation. The highest kinetic constants were observed for at least 0.09 mg TiO2 per cm2 PET. Scan Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Energy-Dispersive X-ray (EDX) analyses indicated 0.15 mg TiO2 per cm2 PET as enough to provide complete covering of the PET support. Characterization analyses were performed with a film after 30 h of use in a UV/TiO2/O3 reactor. According to SEM analyses, the photocatalyst was not detached from the PET support, while EDX and gravimetric data indicated the possibility of the TiO2 to have been contaminated by compounds present in the solution during the treatment. Further experiments were performed, concerning the study of the degradation of the pharmaceuticals paracetamol, ibuprofen, ketoprofen, and naproxen. Degradation studies were carried out in a pilot-scale reactor, by using several AOP’s, namely direct photolysis, heterogeneous photocatalysis, and ozonation, either individually or simultaneously. Special attention was given to the identification of significant factors considered, in order to contribute to the optimization of systems in which such AOPs or their combination can be used. Also, the detection and indication of degradation products is presented. / O uso de PET (politereftalato de etileno) como material de suporte para filmes de TiO2 foi estudado. Um procedimento de baixo custo e ambientalmente correto foi desenvolvido para a obtenção dos filmes e a quantidade de fotocatalisador depositada variou de 0,036 a 0,202 mg por cm2 de PET. A atividade fotocatalítica dos filmes obtidos foi evidenciada por ensaios de degradação de paracetamol sob radiação UV. As maiores constantes cinéticas foram observadas quando 0.09 mg de TiO2 ou mais foram depositados por cm2 PET. Análises por microscopia eletrônica de varredura (MEV) e energia dispersive de raios-X (EDX) indicaram que 0,15 mg de TiO2 por cm2 de PET foram suficientes para completa cobertura do suporte. Análises de caracterização também foram realizadas em filmes com mais de 30 h de uso em sistema UV/TiO2/O3. De acordo com as análises de MEV, o fotocatalisador não foi removido do suporte de PET, enquanto dados de EDX e de análise gravimétrica indicaram a probabilidade de contaminação dos filmes por compostos presentes na solução durante o tratamento. Outros experimentos foram realizados, relacionados ao estudo da degradação dos fármacos paracetamol, ibuprofeno, cetoprofeno e naproxeno. Os estudos de degradação foram realizados em reator em escala piloto, utilizando-se diversos POAs (fotólise direta, fotocatálise heterogênea, ozonização) de forma individual ou simultaneamente. Atenção especial foi dada à identificação dos fatores significativos, dentre aqueles considerados nos ensaios, de modo a contribuir para a otimização de sistemas em que estes POAs venham a ser utilizados. A detecção e indicação de prováveis produtos de degradação também é apresentada.

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A grande maioria das infecções causadas em ambientes médicos-odontológicas é proveniente de contaminações cruzadas, quando se tem contato entre diferentes instrumentos e /ou aparelhos contaminados após procedimentos médicos. Atualmente o padrão aceito e amplamente utilizado para esterilização de instrumental são os equipamentos chamados de autoclaves, em que é reconhecido e aceito pelos órgãos legisladores. Porém alguns tipos de instrumental e material não podem ser esterilizados utilizando este método tendo uma outra vertente que é aplicação de agentes químicos. Esses criam problemas socioambientais relacionados a sua utilização e descarte. Dessa forma, o objetivo deste trabalho foi desenvolver uma autoclave multifuncional com a utilização de gás ozônio, ultravioleta e calor úmido, em que se testou e analisou microbiológica os protocolos de esterilização, obtendo entendimento e otimização do mesmo. Os resultados mostraram-nos que a configuração desenvolvida atingiu aspectos de esterilidade nos protocolos de esterilização avaliados. Entretanto tem a necessidade de aprofundar estudos aplicando o baixo vácuo para o entendimento quanto a utilização quanto os protocolos do funcionamento e uma futura otimização para produção em larga escala. / Most of infection in the medical-dental office is prevenient of cross-contamination, when have the contact with different instrumental and materials without basic control after the process and contact on patient. This point have the standard protocol was accept and described in literature, its utilizing for instrumental sterilizing is the autoclave, it is recognized by organs legislators. However, some instrumental and materials not be accept in this method, on this is necessary one method second in this case is chemical on the instrumentation, but created environmental problem in relation its application. Therefore, this research made the proof of conception in the multifunctional autoclave with the option ozone, ultraviolet and moist heat, what it is analyzing the microbiological protocols of the sterilizing, understanding and optimization the sterilizing process. This results show us which this constructive configuration in this work reached aspects of the sterilizing in the protocols, describe in this text. In the future research in this subject could be study the strongly aspects about the vacuum process before the sterilizing process with ozone gas and development and optimization the prototype for make the scaling up.

Este estudo analisou a ação do ozônio como coadjuvante à terapia endodôntica. Assim, (I) avaliou da eficiência da água ozonizada na redução microbiana realizada sobre suspensão bacteriana de Enterococcus faecalis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa e Staphylococcus aureus estudo in vitro; (II) testou a eficiência da água ozonizada e o gás ozônio na redução microbiana realizada em canais radiculares contaminados estudo ex vivo; e, (III) avaliou a reação biológica de cultura de fibroblastos sob aplicação do ozônio pelo método MTT. Inicialmente a água ozonizada nas concentrações de 5, 20 e 40 g/mL foi aplicada diretamente sobre as suspensões bacterianas separadamente por um minuto. Em seguida, foram feitas diluições seriadas e o plaqueamento para posterior contagem das UFC/mL. Na segunda parte, 180 dentes foram inoculados com 10 L das suspensões bacterianas separadamente e incubados por 7 dias. Em seguida foram submetidos aos grupos experimentais: Grupo I: controle de contaminação; Grupo II: instrumentação rotatória associando o hipoclorito de sódio 1% ao Endo-PTC gel e irrigação final com EDTA-T; Grupo III: protocolo semelhante ao Grupo II com a aplicação final do gás ozônio na concentração de 40 g/mL; e, Grupo IV: protocolo semelhante ao Grupo II com a irrigação final com a água ozonizada na concentração de 40 g/mL. Na sequencia de cada grupo foi feita coleta microbiológica, diluição seriada e plaqueamento por 24 horas e contagem das UFC/mL. Na terceira parte, a análise da viabilidade celular dos fibroblastos. O PBS foi ozonizado nas concentrações de 10, 20 e 40 g/mL e aplicado sobre as células. Os dados foram tabulados e submetidos à análise estatística pelo método de Kruskal-Wallis, complementado pelo método de Dunn (p<0.05). A primeira parte do estudo mostrou que o E. faecalis apresentou crescimento nas concentrações de 5 e 20 g/mL. Na análise da P. aeruginosa e o S. aureus não foi possível detectar UFC/mL. Já no estudo ex vivo, o Grupo IV foi o mais efetivo contra os microrganismos testados, com diferença estatística para os demais grupos, quando dos dentes contaminados com a P. aeruginosa. O estudo da viabilidade mostrou que o ozônio, em 0 horas, ocasionou uma queda na viabilidade celular que foi revertida nos demais tempos experimentais. A concentração de 40 g/mL foi a que proporcionou maior estímulo ao final da avaliação, com diferença estatística significante ao Grupo Controle. Diante das metodologias aplicadas, pode-se concluir que (I) a concentração de 40 g/mL foi a mais efetiva para reduzir o número dos microrganismos testados; (II) o protocolo instituído para a fase de preparo químico cirúrgico que associou a terapia tradicional com a água ozonizada na concentração de 40 g/mL foi o mais efetivo; (III) o ozônio em contato com os fibroblastos de gengiva, inicialmente causou diminuição na viabilidade celular, que foi revertida nos tempos experimentais subsequentes. A concentração de 40 g/mL foi a que causou maior redução no número de células viáveis, porém foi a que proporcionou maior estímulo ao final do experimento, mostrando-se biocompatível com a linhagem celular testada; e, (IV) diante do conjunto dos dados experimentais, a água ozonizada na concentração de 40 g/mL, comparada com as demais concentrações testadas, é a que apresenta melhor desempenho quanto ao seu poder antimicrobiano e biocompatibilidade, justificando sua inserção no arsenal clínico na terapia endodôntica. / This study analyzed the action of ozone as an adjunct to endodontic therapy. So (I) evaluated the effectiveness of ozonated water in microbial reducing performed on bacterial suspension of Enterococcus faecalis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus - in vitro study (II) tested the efficiency of ozone gas and ozonated water in reducing microbial held in contaminated root canals - ex vivo study, and (III) evaluated the biological response of fibroblasts culture in the application of ozone, according to MTT method. In the first part of the experiment the ozonated water at concentrations of 5, 20 and 40 g/mL was placed in direct contact with the bacterial suspensions separately for one minute. Then, serial dilutions were made for plating and subsequent counting of CFU/mL. In the second part, 180 teeth were inoculated with 10 L of bacterial suspensions and incubated separately for 7 days. They were then subjected to experimental groups: Group I: contamination control, Group II: rotary instrumentation combining 1%sodium hypochlorite and gel Endo-PTC, final irrigation with EDTA-T, Group III: similar protocol to Group II with final application of ozone gas in concentration of 40 g/mL, and Group IV: protocol similar to Group II with a final irrigation with ozonated water at concentration of 40 g/mL. Following each group was done microbiological collecting and serial dilution and plating for 24 hours and subsequent counting of CFU/mL. In the third part, the analysis of cell viability of gingival fibroblasts was performed by MTT method. The PBS has been ozonized at concentrations of 10, 20 and 40 g/mL and applied on the cells. Data were tabulated and analyzed statistically by Kruskal-Wallis method, complemented by Dunn\'s method (p <0.05). The first part of the study showed that E.faecalis grew in concentrations of 5 and 20 g/mL. The P. aeruginosa and S. aureus were susceptible to all three concentrations of ozonated water, it was not possible to detect CFU/mL. In the second part of the study, the Group IV was the most effective against the tested microorganisms, with statistical difference for the other groups, especially when the teeth were infected with P. aeruginosa. Finally, the third part of the study showed that ozone, at 0 hours, caused a decrease in cell viability that was reversed in the other experimental times. The concentration of 40 g/mL provided the greatest stimulus on the final evaluation period, with statistically significant difference to the control group. Given the methodologies applied, it can be concluded that (I) the concentration of 40 g/mL was most effective at reducing the number of microorganisms, (II) the protocol established for the standard chemical preparation stage associated with ozonated water at a concentration of 40 g/mL was the most effective, (III) the ozone in contact with the gingival fibroblasts, initially caused a decrease in cell viability, which was reversed in subsequent experimental times. The concentration of 40 g/mL was the one that caused a greater reduction in the number of viable cells, however, was that provided the greatest stimulus to the end of the experiment and proved to be biocompatible with the cell line tested, and (IV) on the set of experimental data, the ozonated water at a concentration of 40 g/mL , compared with the other concentrations tested, it has the best performance in terms of its biocompatibility and antimicrobial power, justifying their inclusion in the clinical arsenal in endodontic therapy.