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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 10, Pages 5511-5518Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es300345c
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- Federal Ministry for Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany
- state reservoir administration of Saxony (Landestalsperrenverwaltung des Freistaates Sachsen) especially at Muldenberg
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Elevated concentrations of dissolved organic matter (DOM) such as humic substances in raw water pose significant challenges during the processing of the commercial drinking water supplies. This is a relevant issue in Saxony, Central East Germany, and many other regions worldwide, where drinking water is produced from raw waters with noticeable presence of chromophoric DOM (CDOM), which is assumed to originate from forested watersheds in spring regions of the catchment area. For improved comprehension of DOM molecular composition, the seasonal and spatial variations of humic-like fluorescence and elemental formulas in the catchment area of the Muldenberg reservoir were recorded by excitation emission matrix fluorescence (EEMF) and ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry (FT-ICR-MS). The Spearman rank correlation was applied to link the EEMF intensities with exact molecular formulas and their corresponding relative mass peak abundances. Thereby, humic-like fluorescence could be allocated to the pool of oxygen-rich and relatively unsaturated components with stoichiometries similar to those of tannic acids, which are suspected to have a comparatively high disinfection byproduct formation potential associated with the chlorination of raw water. Analogous relationships were established for UV absorption at 254 nm (UV254) and dissolved organic carbon (DOG) and compared to the EEMF correlation.
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