Disinfection By-Products in Drinking Water

by Fielding, M.; Farrimond, M.

• ISBN13: 9780854047789
• ISBN10: 0854047786
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry

Summary

Brings together contributions from regulators, researchers and water suppliers from Europe and North America to discuss the current situation and identify the main issues associated with reaching a cost-effective balance between microbial and chemical risks.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Water in Europe	3	(6)
Theo Martijn
Disinfection By-products -- A View from North America	9	(14)
Richard Karlin
DBP Formation and Occurrence in Treatment and Distribution
Disinfection By-product Formation: Dutch Approach of Control Strategies	23	(8)
Joop Kruithof
The Impact of Natural Organic Matter (NOM) on the Formation of Inorganic Disinfection By-products: Chlorite, Chlorate, Bromate and Iodate	31	(15)
Wido Schmidt
Ute Bohme
Frank Sacher
Heinz-Jurgen Brauch
Identification of Drinking Water Disinfection By-products from Ozone, Chlorine Dioxide, Chloramine, and Chlorine	46	(8)
Susan D. Richardson
Tashia V. Caughran
Alfred D. Thruston, Jr.
Timothy W. Collette
Kathleen M. Schenck
Benjamin W. Lykins
The Influence of UV Disinfection on the Formation of Disinfection By-products	54	(8)
Nick Mole
M. Fielding
D. Lunt
Impact of Pre-ozonation and Slow Sand Filtration on Disinfection By-products	62	(8)
Christopher Cable
The Effect of Nanofiltration on the Trihalomethane Formation Potential of Coloured Upland Waters	70	(8)
John W. Littlejohn
Chloramination: The Background to its Introduction, and the Management of Nitrite Formation in a Water Distribution System	78	(13)
John A. Haley
Advances in Analysis and Monitoring
Trace-level Determination of Bromate in Drinking Water by IC/ICP-MS	91	(7)
Frank Sacher
B. Raue
H.-J. Brauch
Field and Laboratory Methods for Bromate Determination in Drinking Water	98	(10)
Valerie Ingrand
M. Aubay
M.C. Muller
On-line Monitoring of the River Trent -- To Reduce the Level of THM Formation	108	(13)
J.E. Upton
Brian E. Drage
M. Purvis
Standards and Regulation
DBP Standards and Regulations: The North American Situation	121	(10)
Stig Regli
M. Cox
T. Grubbs
J. McLain
DBP Standards and Regulation: The UK and European Situation	131	(9)
Owen Hydes
Meeting Strict DBP Standards -- The View of the European Water Industry	140	(6)
Bob Breach
North West Water's Options for Compliance with the Proposed Revision of the European Drinking Water Directive Standard for DBPs	146	(11)
Frank White
Balancing Chemical and Microbiological Risk
The Risks of DBPs in Perspective	157	(8)
John Fawell
Bromate Carcinogenicity: A Non-linear Dose Response Mechanism?	165	(5)
Kevin Chipman
Developments in Microbiological Risk Assessment: From Cryptosporidium to BSE	170	(13)
Paul Gale
Control of DBPs
The Use of Advanced Water Treatment Processes for the Reduction of Background Organics and Disinfection By-products	183	(8)
Jeanette Shurrock
M. Bauer
M. Holmes
A. Rachwal
Treatment Strategies for Disinfection-related Trihalomethane Formation: Impact of Colour in Public Water Supplies to Klaipeda, Lithuania	191	(8)
P.A.R.S. Scott
C. Dean
Michael A. Jones
V. Sulga
A. Klimas
Applying Published Bromate Formation Data to Ozone Contactor Design	199	(9)
Jolyon La Trobe-Bateman
Production of Drinking Water without Chlorine: The Dutch Experience	208	(11)
J.P. van der Hoek
A. Graveland
J.A. Schellart
R.A.G. te Welscher
H.S. Vrouwenvelder
D. van der Kooij
Concluding Remarks
Summary of Conference. Disinfection Products -- The Way Forward	219	(3)
Bob Breach
Subject Index	222