Quantifying the formation of nitrogen-containing disinfection by-products in chlorinated water using absorbance and fluorescence indexes

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-44

  Roccaro, P ^a   Vagliasindi, F G A ^a   Korshin, G V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbance; Fluorescence; Haloacetonitriles; Halonitromethanes; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCES; CHLORINATED WATERS; CHLORINE DOSE; DESCRIPTORS; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORBANCE; DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCT; DISINFECTION BYPRODUCTS; DRINKING WATER; FORMATION PATHWAYS; HALOACETIC ACIDS; HALOACETONITRILES; HALONITROMETHANES; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; REACTION CONDITIONS; REACTION TIME; REAL TIME MONITORING; TRIHALOMETHANES;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHLORINATION; CHLORINE; DISINFECTION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT;

FLUORESCENCE;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DRINKING WATER; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER; NITROGEN; TRIHALOMETHANE;

ABSORBANCE; CHLORINATION; DRINKING WATER; FLUORESCENCE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; DISINFECTION; FLUORESCENCE; MONITORING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

CHLORINE; DISINFECTION; NITROGEN; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 79251518291     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2011.006     Document Type: Article

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