Degradation Investigation of Selected Taste and Odor Compounds by a UV/Chlorine Advanced Oxidation Process

Jingyun Fang, Jiajian Liu, Chii Shang and Chihhao Fan
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Jingyun Fang: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Jiajian Liu: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Chii Shang: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Chihhao Fan: Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2018, vol. 15, issue 2, 1-10

Abstract: Taste- and odor-causing (T&O) compounds are a major concern in drinking water treatment plants due to their negative impacts on the safety and palatability of water supply. This study explored the degradation kinetics and radical chemistry of four often-detected T&O compounds, geosmin (GSM), 2-methylisoborneol (MIB), benzothiazole (BT), and 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (IBMP), in the ultraviolet/chlorine (UV/chlorine) advanced oxidation process. All experiments were carried out in a 700 mL photoreactor and the process effectively degraded the investigated T&O compounds in a slightly acidic environment. The degradation of T&O decreased with increasing pH but slightly with decreasing chlorine dosage. When the pH increased from 6 to 8, the pseudo-first-order rate constants of GSM, MIB, BT, and IBMP dropped from 2.84 × 10 −3 , 2.29 × 10 −3 , 3.64 × 10 −3 , and 2.76 × 10 −3 s −1 to 3.77 × 10 −4 , 2.64 × 10 −4 , 6.48 × 10 −4 , and 6.40 × 10 −4 s −1 , respectively. Increasing the chlorine dosage slightly accelerated the degradation of the investigated T&O compounds, but excessive hypochlorous acid and hypochlorite scavenged the HO• radicals and reactive chlorine species (RCS). Generally, HO• primarily contributed to the degradation of all of the investigated T&O compounds as compared to RCS. The degradation by RCS was found to be structurally selective. RCS could not degrade GSM, but contributed to the degradation of MIB, BT, and IBMP. The results confirmed that the proposed oxidation process effectively degraded typical T&O compounds in aqueous phase.

Keywords: taste and odor compounds; UV/chlorine advanced oxidation process; hydroxyl radical; chlorine radical; water treatment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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