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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 282, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131061
Keywords
Dissolved organic matter; Disinfection; THMs; Fluorescent EEM; PARAFAC
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- Research and Graduate Studies, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
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This study investigated the relationships between the optical characteristics of DOM and their total THM-FP through fluorescence spectroscopy analysis, even at sites with different speciation of THMs.
Concentration and chemical composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) play a major role in formation and speciation of disinfection by-products, such as trihalomethanes (THMs), in water treatment plants (WTPs) during disinfection. This study characterized DOM across the process trains of WTPs using fluorescence excitation emission matrices (EEMs) together with parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC). The PARAFAC model was developed from 216 EEMs of bimonthly water samples from three WTPs in Khon Kaen, Thailand, from May 2018 to Mar 2019. Three PARAFAC components identified were humic-like DOM of terrestrial, and microbial or agricultural origin, while the one protein-like component was previously defined as tryptophan-like fluorophore. The relationships between water quality parameters, including the maximum fluorescent intensities (F-max) of PARAFAC components and THM formation potential (THM-FP) were investigated using Spearman's rank correlation. The Fmax of PARAFAC components, UVA(254), DOC, and THM-FP were greater in dry season. Chloroform was the primary THM formed at two sites using surface water as their water source, while the site using surface water with saline groundwater intrusion had higher concentration of brominated THMs. Results indicated that F-max of humic-like components extracted by PARAFAC analysis were the most accurate THM-FP surrogate parameter assessed for the water samples tested and the correlations between F-max and THM-FP were site specific (rho = 0.81-0.85). The result demonstrates that fluorescence spectroscopy analysis has yielded insights into relationships between the DOM optical characteristics and their total THM-FP even at sites with different speciation of THMs.
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