Journal
WATER RESEARCH
Volume 39, Issue 18, Pages 4405-4412Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2005.08.023
Keywords
fluorescence; dissolved organic matter; thermal quenching; humic; tryptophan
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The fluorescence excitation-emission matrices of dissolved organic matter (DOM) are investigated between 10 and 45 degrees C for river and waste waters and organic matter standards. With increased temperature, fluorescence intensity is quenched. It is demonstrated that for a range or river and wastewater samples, that tryptophan-like fluorescence exhibits a greater range of quenching (between 20 +/- 4% and 35 +/- 5%) than fulvic-like fluorescence (19 +/- 4 to 26 +/- 3%) over this temperature range. Humic Substance standards exhibit similar fulvic-like (23 +/- 4%) fluorescence thermal quenching properties to river water samples (23 +/- 3%); however none of the samples exhibit quenching of tryptophan-like fluorescence to the same extent as the tryptophan standards (similar to 50%). Thermal fluorescence quenching is related to the exposure of the fluorophores to the heat source; our findings suggest that the tryptophan-like groups within DOM is more exposed in untreated wastewaters than in treated wastewaters riverine DOM. Thermal fluorescence properties have the potential to be used to source DOM, to provide additional chemical structural information, to temperature correct laser-induced remotely sensed DOM fluorescence, and to characterise DOM through the wastewater treatment process. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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