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Effect of UV irradiation on iodinated trihalomethane formation during post-chloramination
Ying Xia1, Yi-Li Lin2, Bin Xu1
1State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Key Laboratory of Yangtze Water Environment, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, PR China; Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai, 200092, PR China.
Abstract:
Ultraviolet (UV) irradiation has been widely used in drinking water treatment processes, but its influence on the formation of disinfection by-products (DBPs), especially the emerging iodinated trihalomethanes (I-THMs) during post-chloramination remains unclear. This study evaluated the impact of low pressure (LP) UV treatment on the formation of I-THMs during post-chloramination through two pathways. The first pathway is through the transition of DOM structure and composition during UV-chloramination, resulting significant increase of I-THM formation with increasing UV dosage in different dissolved organic matter (DOM)-containing water (49.7%-90.5% at 1160 mJ/cm2). With the application of excitation emission matrix-parallel factor analysis (EEM-PARAFAC), we found that I-THM formation in UV-chloraminated water correlated well with two ratios of three PARAFAC humic-like components (C3/C2 and C1/C2, R2 = 0.958-1.000), suggesting that the ratios of fluorescent components can be used as reliable indicators for I-THM formation. Moreover, the shift in these fluorescent components is crucial for I-THM formation during UV-chloramination. Another pathway for UV irradiation to affect I-THM formation during post-chloramination is through the transformation of iodine species. Large amounts of reactive iodine species (HOI/I2 and I3-) can be generated directly in the mixed iodine system by UV light, leading to the enhancement of iodine utilization factor (IUF) (up to 0.040) after post-chloramination. These results suggest that UV application to DOM-containing water may induce changes in organic precursors and iodine species so as to enhance I-THM formation during post-chloramination.
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