Rapid prediction of disinfection by-product formation potential by fluorescence

Recent drinking water regulations have lowered the disinfection by-product standards as well as added new disinfection by-products for regulation. Natural organic matter (NOM) plays a major role in the formation of undesirable organic by-products following disinfection/oxidation of drinking water. It is suspected that most precursors to disinfection by-products are humic, although nonhumic substances are also suspected of contributing to these by-products. Many of the disinfection by-products have adverse health effects in humans (i.e., carcinogenic or mutagenic effects). The primary chlorinated disinfection by-products of concern include trihalomethanes, haloacetic acids, and haloacetonitrile. Fluorescence spectroscopy was used to study humic and fulvic acids. The two fractions of humic substances, humic and fulvic acids, were characterized by a double-peak phenomena in an overlapping fluorescing region. Disinfection by-product formation potentials of humic and fulvic acids have been correlated with total organic carbon, UV absorbance at 254 nm, specific absorbance and fluorescence. River humic and fulvic acid was found to have the highest reactivity to disinfection by-product formation as compared to soil and peat humic and fulvic acid. Fluorescence spectroscopy has shown to be a rapid and predictive tool for disinfection by-products formation potential of humic and fulvic acids.     

西部干旱半干旱地区水资源再生利用分析

结合西部干旱半干旱地区的地域特点、水文特征和水资源开发利用状况，分析论述了该地区水资源短缺与水污染加剧这一矛盾所决定的西部地区水资源开发利用的特点及其对地区经济发展的制约，认为水资源的再生利用是解决西部地区水资源危机的一条有效途径。以城市污水为再生水源，根据该区域特点，提出了西部干旱半干旱地区水资源再生利用的研究内容。     

Vacuum energy in a Friedmann-Lemaître cosmos

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