A system and method for treating ballast water within an ocean going vessel by generating hypochlorite for treating the ballast water. In one embodiment, plasma attributes are measured for a process in a reference chamber and a process in an aged chamber. The lactic acid bacterium is preferably a lactic acid bacterium belonging to the genus Lactobacillus or Carnobacterium, more preferably Lactobacillus coryniformis K12 or Carnobacterium maltaromaticum B64. The personalization search engine ranks the multiple portions of indexed content according to their respective relevance to the first user who provided the search query and creates a search result based on ranking the multiple portions of indexed content.