Dissolved organic nitrogen as a precursor for chloroform, dichloroacetonitrile, N-nitrosodimethylamine, and trichloronitromethane

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 5485-5490

  Lee, Wontae ^a   Westerhoff, Paul ^b   Croué, Jean Philippe ^c  

^a HDR ENGINEERING INC   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO SUGAR; ORGANIC NITROGEN; TRICHLORONITROMETHANE; CHLORAMINATION; CHLOROFORM CONCENTRATIONS; DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCT; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; FORMATION POTENTIAL; FREE CHLORINE; MONOCHLORAMINE; N-NITROSODIMETHYLAMINE; NITROGEN CONTENT;

BYPRODUCTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ORGANIC CARBON; SOLUTIONS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHLORINE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; AMINATION;

ACETONITRILE DERIVATIVE; CHLORINE; CHLOROFORM; CHLOROPICRIN; DICHLOROACETONITRILE; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; MONOCHLORAMINE; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC NITROGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BYPRODUCTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ORGANIC CARBON; SOLUTIONS; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

CHLORINE; CHLOROFORM; DISINFECTION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; COLLOID; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; POLLUTANT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ACETONITRILES; CHLORINE; CHLOROFORM; COLLOIDS; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN; SOLUBILITY; SOLUTIONS; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 34547679717     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es070411g     Document Type: Article

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