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A Study on the Removal of Natural Organic Matter and Disinfection Byproducts Formation Potential from Groundwater Using Fenton’s Process

  • Jelena J. Molnar EMAIL logo , Jasmina R. Agbaba , Božo D. Dalmacija , Srđan D. Rončević , Snežana P. Maletić and Marijana M. Kragulj
Published/Copyright: November 30, 2016
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Abstract

This work investigates the efficiency of the Fenton process in removing natural organic matter (NOM) from groundwater. Previous studies focused mostly on the use of Fenton’s process to remove total organic matter, but this research also studies the conditions leading to the formation of hazardous disinfection by-product precursors, and their removal. Solutions of a commercial humic acid as a model of NOM and natural groundwater as a real matrix rich in NOM (dissolved organic carbon, DOC=9.92±0.87 mg/L) were studied. Under optimum reaction conditions, the respective removal efficiencies (expressed as DOC) were 95% from commercial humic acid solution and 82% from groundwater. The decrease in DOC resulted in 99% decrease of the content of precursors of trihalomethanes (THMs) and 98% of haloacetic acids (HAAs) for the investigated matrixes. Precursors of haloacetonitriles, haloketones and chloropicrin were detected at much lower concentrations than the THMs and HAAs precursors.

Received: 2010-10-13
Revised: 2010-11-29
Accepted: 2010-11-30
Published Online: 2016-11-30
Published in Print: 2011-1-1

© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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