(1) Chemical Engineering Department, University of The Basque Country, PO BOX 644, 48080, Bilbao, Spain,
Abstract:
The relatively recent discovery of disinfection by-products has driven the main regulatory organisms to set maximum contaminant
levels for certain substances in drinking water. Trihalomethanes can be deemed as the most important group of by-products
in chlorinated surface waters. The present work has focused on trihalomethane formation in a full-scale water treatment plant.
We studied the effect of several factors, including ozonation, on trihalomethane levels in chlorinated treated water. The
treatment scheme also includes an ozonation step.
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