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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Volume 102, Issue -, Pages 24-36Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2020.08.028
Keywords
UV/chlorine AOP; Disinfection byproducts (DBPs); Natural organic matter (NOM); FT-ICR MS; Water treatment
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFE0133200]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21876210, 21806173]
- Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Planning Projects [2019A050503006]
- Hong Kong RGC [16206416, T21-604/19-R]
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UV/chlorine process is effective in removing micro-pollutants but may lead to NOM transformation and DBPs formation, with ClO, Cl, and HO promoting NOM transformation and causing increased formation of Cl-DBPs. UV/chlorine AOP generated more CHON-containing compounds and higher CHOCl compounds compared to dark chlorination, with different chlorine substitution (SR) and addition reactions (AR) occurring based on precursor properties.
UV/chlorine process, as an emerging advanced oxidation process (AOP), was effective for removing micro-pollutants via various reactive radicals, but it also led to the changes of natural organic matter (NOM) and formation of disinfection byproducts (DBPs). By using negative ion electrospray ionization coupled with Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (ESI FT-ICR MS), the transformation of Suwannee River NOM (SRNOM) and the formation of chlorinated DBPs (Cl-DBPs) in the UV/chlorine AOP and subsequent post-chlorination were tracked and compared with dark chlorination. In comparison to dark chlorination, the involvement of ClO center dot, Cl-center dot, and HO center dot in the UV/chlorine AOP promoted the transformation of NOM by removing the compounds owning higher aromaticity (AI(mod)) value and DBE (double-bond equivalence)/C ratio and causing the decrease in the proportion of aromatic compounds. Meanwhile, more compounds which contained only C, H, O, N atoms (CHON) were observed after the UV/chlorine AOP compared with dark chlorination via photolysis of organic chloramines or radical reactions. A total of 833 compounds contained C, H, O, Cl atoms (CHOCl) were observed after the UV/chlorine AOP, higher than 789 CHOCl compounds in dark chlorination, and one-chlorine-containing components were the dominant species. The different products from chlorine substitution reactions (SR) and addition reactions (AR) suggested that SR often occurred in the precursors owning higher H/C ratio and AR often occurred in the precursors owning higher aromaticity. Post-chlorination further caused the cleavages of NOM structures into small molecular weight compounds, removed CHON compounds and enhanced the formation of Cl-DBPs. The results provide information about NOM transformation and Cl-DBPs formation at molecular levels in the UV/chlorine AOP. (C) 2020 The Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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