Tracking natural organic matter (NOM) in a drinking water treatment plant using fluorescence excitation-emission matrices and PARAFAC

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 797-809

  Baghoth, S A ^a,b   Sharma, S K ^a   Amy, G L ^a,b,c  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Natural organic matter; Parallel factor analysis; Size exclusion chromatography

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMOLECULES; BIOPOLYMERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROPHORES; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; ORGANIC CARBON; POTABLE WATER; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION-EMISSION MATRICES; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; ORGANIC CARBON DETECTION; PARALLEL FACTOR ANALYSIS;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

BIOPOLYMER; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; DRINKING WATER; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC CARBON; TRYPTOPHAN;

CHROMATOGRAPHY; DRINKING WATER; ORGANIC MATTER; PROTEIN; SAMPLING; WATER TREATMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FRACTIONATION; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PARALLEL FACTOR ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 78650417911     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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