Abstract
The ultimate goal in planning, designing, commissioning, and verifying effluent treatment/decontamination systems is to ensure a safe and reliable system that meets the needs of the facility and the users. In the past decade many designs and applications of these systems have evolved in containment laboratories throughout the world. The challenge for many of these projects is to determine the most effective solution, then “right size” that solution to the facility in which it will be contained. This article addresses how to make the appropriate choice of an applicable effluent treatment system when constructing or retrofitting a facility, the commissioning of that system, and completing biological validation, using both indirect and direct validation of the systems.