Journal
WATER RESEARCH
Volume 41, Issue 18, Pages 4073-4084Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2007.05.041
Keywords
phenyl-urea herbicides; oxidation ozone; hydroxyl radicals; rate constants; natural water systems
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Oxidation of four phenyl-urea herbicides (isoproturon, chlortoluron, diuron, and linuron) was studied by ozone at pH = 2, and by a combination of O-3/H2O2 at pH = 9. These experiments allowed the determination of the rate constants for their reactions with ozone and OH radicals. For reactions with ozone, the following rate constants were obtained: 1.9 +/- 0.2, 16.5 +/- 0.6, 393.5 +/- 8.4, and 2191 +/- 259 M-1 s(-1) for linuron, diuron, chlortoluron, and isoproturon, respectively. The rate constants for the reaction with OH radicals were (7.9 +/- 0.1) x 10(9)M(-1)s(-1) for isoproturon, (6.9 +/- 0.2) x 10(9) M-1 s(-1) for chlortoluron, (6.6 +/- 0.1) x 10(5)M(-1) s(-1) for diuron, and (5.9 +/- 0.1) x 10(9)M(-1) s(-1) for linuron. Furthermore, the simultaneous ozonation of these selected herbicides in some natural water systems (a commercial mineral water, a groundwater, and surface water from a reservoir) was studied. The influence of operating conditions (initial ozone dose, nature of herbicides, and type of water systems) on herbicide removal efficiency was established, and the parameter R,, (proposed by Elovitz, M.S., von Gunten, U., 1999. Hydroxyl radical/ ozone ratios during ozonation processes. I. The R-ct concept. Ozone Sci. Eng. 21, 239-260) was evaluated from simultaneous measurement of ozone and OH radicals. A kinetic model was proposed for the prediction of the elimination rate of herbicides in these natural waters, and application of this model revealed that experimental results and predicted values agreed fairly well. Finally, the partial contributions of direct ozone and radical pathways were evaluated, and the results showed that reaction with OH radicals was the major pathway for the oxidative transformation of diuron and linuron, even when conventional ozonation was applied, while for chlortoluron and isoproturon, direct ozonation was the major pathway. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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