期刊
WATER RESEARCH
卷 184, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.116123
关键词
Gabapentin; Chlorine; Nitrile; Micropollutant; Drinking water; Wastewater effluent
资金
- Korea Environment Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI) - Korea Ministry of Environment (MOE) [20190027100051]
The occurrence and fate of the popular pharmaceutical gabapentin (GBP) in the urban water cycle were investigated with a focus on its transformation during water chlorination. GBP was detected in all samples with average concentrations of 1285 ng/L (n = 24) for wastewater effluent, 304 ng/L for river water (n = 22), and 180 ng/L for drinking water treatment plant (DWTP) influent (n = 4). The monitoring sites were located in the Nakdong River watershed, Korea. GBP was rapidly (within 20 min) transformed into 1-cyanocyclohexylacetic acid (GBP-nitrile) under typical chlorination conditions (1.4 mgCl(2)/L). When there was a molar excess of chlorine to GBP, the primary amine of GBP was double-chlorinated to form N-Cl-2 GBP with a second-order rate constant of >10(3) M-1 s(-1). Decomposition of N-Cl-2 GBP had a first-order rate constant of (0.5-1.0) x 10(-2) s(-1) and produced GBP-nitrile with a yield of 87%-10 0%. We propose that N-Cl-2 GBP is transformed into N-Cl GBP imine and then to GBP-nitrile via two consecutive dehydrochlorinations with the former as the rate-limiting step. N-Cl-2 GBP had a much higher decom-position rate than N-Cl-2 produced from other simple aliphatic amines, which could be related to the structural features of GBP such as its carboxyl group and quaternary b-carbon. The wastewater effluent samples did not contain GBP-nitrile even in the chlorinated effluent because of the relatively low chlorine dose or high ammonia level. In a full-scale DWTP employing a pre-chlorination unit, GBP present in the influent river water was fully transformed into GBP-nitrile. The formed GBP-nitrile was degraded in subsequent ozonation (*OH oxidation) and biological activated carbon filtration (biodegradation) processes. The toxicity of GBP-nitrile is thought to be low but further studies are warranted to assess the toxicological relevance of nitrile formation during water chlorination. (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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