Removal of Disinfection by Products Precursors

ISBN-13: 9783659428609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 164 str.

Uyak Vedat

Opis

Chlorination is the most commonly employed chemical disinfectant in drinking water treatment nowadays. However, several studies reported that chlorination of organic matter in fresh water resulted in formation of disinfection by-products (DBP). Because of concerns over the health effects of organic by-products of chlorination, the use of alternative disinfectants of chloramines, ozone, and chlorine dioxide as primary or secondary disinfection agents is increasing. However, each of these alternatives has also been shown to form its own set of DBP. Concerns regarding the potential health effects of DBP prompted several industrialized countries to develop a number of regu¬lations. The disinfectant/disinfection by-product (D/DBP) regulation in United States of America (USA) has set maximum contaminant levels for trihalomethanes (THM) and haloacetic acids (HAA) of 80 and 60 µg/l, respectively.

O autorze

Vedat Uyak was born in 1971 in Van, Turkey. He graduated from Cumhuriyet University with B.Sc. degree in Environmental Engineering Department in 1993. He received his M.Sc. degree from Civil and Environmental Engineering department of University of Iowa, USA, in 1997. He completed his PhD studies in the period of 1998-2006 at the Istanbul Technical