Degradation of tertiary alkylamines during chlorination/chloramination: Implications for formation of aldehydes, nitriles, halonitroalkanes, and nitrosamines

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 4811-4817

  Mitch, William A ^a   Schreiber, I Marie ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; ALDEHYDES; AMINATION; AMINES; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHLORINATION; CHLORINE; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; CONTAMINATION; CYANIDES; DEGRADATION; DISINFECTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; MATERIALS HANDLING; NITROGEN; NITROSAMINES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POTABLE WATER; PUBLIC UTILITIES; RATE CONSTANTS; REUSABILITY; SULFATE MINERALS; WASTEWATER; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; BYPRODUCTS; EFFLUENTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ALKYL-AMINES; AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); CHLORAMINATION; DEGRADATION PATHWAYS; DEGRADATION RATES; DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCT (DBP); DRINKING WATER; DRINKING WATER SUPPLIES; HUMAN WASTES; ORGANIC NITROGEN (DON); TERTIARY AMINES; TRICHLORONITROMETHANE; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS;

EFFLUENTS; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; ALIPHATIC AMINE; CHLORINE; CHLOROPICRIN; DRINKING WATER; NITRILE; NITROALKANE; NITROSAMINE; ORGANIC NITROGEN; RUNOFF; TOSYLCHLORAMIDE SODIUM;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; ALDEHYDE; CHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; DRINKING WATER; EFFLUENT; ORGANIC NITROGEN; WASTEWATER;

AMINATION; ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; EFFLUENT; POLLUTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER; WATER SUPPLY;

ALDEHYDES; AMINES; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; HALOGENATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ALKYL AMINES; CHLORAMINATION; DEGRADATION PATHWAYS; DEGRADATION RATE; DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCT; HUMAN WASTE; LOW-YIELD; ORGANIC NITROGEN; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS; WATER UTILITY;

EID: 46849092570     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es703017z     Document Type: Article

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