Abstract
Removal of natural organic matter (NOM) in drinking water treatment systems has been a matter of thorough study in recent years. NOM affects organoleptic properties of water and causes membrane fouling; it may act as energy source for microorganisms in distribution systems and leads to the formation of undesired disinfection by-products through its interaction with chlorine. Currently the role played by advanced oxidation processes in the removal of NOM has gained great interest; understanding the composition and behaviour of NOM throughout such a kind of processes may allow to get significant insight in order to improve efficiency. In this chapter the main techniques useful for characterization are described, and their use to investigate the changes undergone by NOM throughout several AOPs has been reviewed.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Abbreviations
- AMW:
-
Apparent molecular weight distribution
- AOPs:
-
Advanced oxidation processes
- BA:
-
Benzoic acid
- CAS:
-
Conventional activated sludge
- C-DBPs:
-
Carbonaceous disinfection by-products
- CDOM:
-
Coloured dissolved organic matter
- COD:
-
Chemical oxygen demand
- DOC:
-
Dissolved organic carbon (mg C/L)
- DOM:
-
Dissolved organic matter
- DPBs:
-
Disinfection by-products
- ESI-FT-ICR-MS:
-
Electrospray ionization Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry
- FA:
-
Fulvic acids
- FEEM:
-
Fluorescence excitation/emission matrix
- FFA:
-
Furfuryl alcohol
- FT-IR:
-
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
- GC-MS:
-
Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
- HA:
-
Humic acids
- HAAs:
-
Haloacetic acids
- HMW:
-
High molecular weight
- HPI:
-
Hydrophilic fraction
- HPI-A:
-
Hydrophilic acids
- HPI-B:
-
Hydrophilic bases
- HPI-N:
-
Hydrophilic neutrals
- HPO:
-
Hydrophobic fraction
- HPO-A:
-
Hydrophobic acids
- HPO-B:
-
Hydrophobic bases
- HPO-N:
-
Hydrophobic neutrals
- HS:
-
Humic substances
- LC-OCD:
-
Liquid chromatography-organic carbon detection
- LC-SEC:
-
Size-exclusion liquid chromatography
- LC-UVD:
-
Liquid chromatography-ultraviolet detection
- LMW:
-
Low molecular weight
- MBR:
-
Membrane biological reactor
- Mt:
-
Montmorillonite
- MTBE:
-
Methyl tert-butyl ether
- MW:
-
Molecular weight
- N-DBPs:
-
Nitrogenous disinfection by-products
- NMR:
-
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
- NOM:
-
Natural organic matter
- NPOC:
-
Non-purgeable organic carbon
- OCD:
-
Organic carbon detector
- PCU:
-
Platinum-cobalt units
- PFBHA:
-
Pentafluorobenzyl hydroxylamine hydrochloride
- PS:
-
Persulphate
- PSS:
-
Polystyrene sulphonate
- RCSs:
-
Reactive chlorine species
- RID:
-
Refractive index detector
- ROS:
-
Reactive oxygen species
- RP:
-
Reversed-phase liquid chromatography
- RT:
-
Room temperature
- SEC:
-
Size-exclusion chromatography
- SHA:
-
Slightly hydrophobic acid fraction
- SUVA:
-
Specific UV absorbance (L/mg m)
- THMs:
-
Trihalomethanes
- TOC:
-
Total organic carbon (mg C/L)
- TPI:
-
Transphilic fraction
- US:
-
Ultrasound
- UV:
-
Ultraviolet
- UV254 :
-
UV absorbance at 254 nm (m−1)
- UVD:
-
Ultraviolet detector
- UV-Vis:
-
Ultraviolet visible
- VHA:
-
Very hydrophobic acid fraction
References
Camargo Valero M, Cruz Torres LE (1999) Sustancias húmicas en aguas para abastecimiento. Ing Invest 44:63–72
Chiou CT, Malcolm RL, Brinton TI, Kile DE (1986) Water solubility enhancement of some organic pollutants and pesticides by dissolved humic and fulvic acids. Environ Sci Technol 20(5):502–508
Leenheer JA, Croué J–P (2003) Aquatic organic matter: understanding the unknown structures is key to better treatment of drinking water. Environ Sci Technol 37(1):18A–26A
CBCL Limited, Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Environment and Conservation, Water Management Division (2011) Study on characteristics and removal of natural organic matter in drinking water systems in newfoundland and labrador – final report. Department of Environment and Conservation, Water Management Division, St. John’s
Frimmel FH, Abbt-Braun G, Heumann KG, Hock B, Lüdemann H-D, Spiteller M (2002) Refractory organic substances in the environment. Wiley–VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim
Matilainen A, Gjessing ET, Lahtinen T, Hed L, Bhatnagar A, Sillanpaa M (2011) An overview of the methods used in the characterisation of natural organic matter (NOM) in relation to drinking water treatment. Chemosphere 83(11):1431–1442
Lavonen E (2015) Tracking changes in dissolved natural organic matter composition. PhD thesis, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala
Navalón S (2010) Parámetros de calidad del agua relacionados con la presencia de materia orgánica y microorganismos. PhD thesis, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia
Matilainen A, Vepsalainen M, Sillanpaa M (2010) Natural organic matter removal by coagulation during drinking water treatment: a review. Adv Colloid Interf Sci 159(2):189–197
Cui X, Choo K-H (2014) Natural organic matter removal and fouling control in low–pressure membrane filtration for water treatment. Environ Eng Res 19(1):1–8
Leenheer JA (1981) Comprehensive approach to preparative isolation and fractionation of dissolved organic carbon from natural waters and wastewaters. Environ Sci Technol 15(5):578–587
Cehovin M, Medic A, Scheideler J, Mielcke J, Ried A, Kompare B, Zgajnar Gotvajn A (2017) Hydrodynamic cavitation in combination with the ozone, hydrogen peroxide and the UV–based advanced oxidation processes for the removal of natural organic matter from drinking water. Ultrason Sonochem 37:394–404
Galeano LA, Bravo PF, Luna CD, Vicente MÁ, Gil A (2012) Removal of natural organic matter for drinking water production by Al/Fe–PILC–catalyzed wet peroxide oxidation: effect of the catalyst preparation from concentrated precursors. Appl Catal B 111–112:527–535
Matilainen A, Sillanpaa M (2010) Removal of natural organic matter from drinking water by advanced oxidation processes. Chemosphere 80(4):351–365
Xing L, Murshed MF, Lo T, Fabris R, Chow CWK, van Leeuwen J, Drikas M, Wang D (2012) Characterization of organic matter in alum treated drinking water using high performance liquid chromatography and resin fractionation. Chem Eng J 192:186–191
Wang H, Zhu Y, Hu C (2017) Impacts of bacteria and corrosion on removal of natural organic matter and disinfection byproducts in different drinking water distribution systems. Int Biodeterior Biodegrad 117:52–59
Trueman BF, MacIsaac SA, Stoddart AK, Gagnon GA (2016) Prediction of disinfection by–product formation in drinking water via fluorescence spectroscopy. Environ Sci Water Res Technol 2(2):383–389
Giannino M (2014) Drinking water and water management: new research. Nova Science Publishers, New York
Fan X, Tao Y, Wang L, Zhang X, Lei Y, Wang Z, Noguchi H (2014) Performance of an integrated process combining ozonation with ceramic membrane ultra–filtration for advanced treatment of drinking water. Desalination 335(1):47–54
Abdul Hamid KI, Sanciolo P, Gray S, Duke M, Muthukumaran S (2017) Impact of ozonation and biological activated carbon filtration on ceramic membrane fouling. Water Res 126:308–318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2017.09.012
Papageorgiou A, Voutsa D, Papadakis N (2014) Occurrence and fate of ozonation by–products at a full–scale drinking water treatment plant. Sci Total Environ 481:392–400
Linden KG, Mohseni M (2014) Advanced oxidation processes: applications in drinking water treatment. In: Ahuja S (ed) Comprehensive water quality and purification. Elsevier, Amsterdam
Kommineni S, Zoeckler J, Stocking A, Liang S, Flores A, Kavanaugh M, Rodriguez R, Browne T, Roberts R, Brown A, Stocking A (2008) 3.0 advanced oxidation processes. National Water Research Institute, Fountain Valley
Pignatello JJ, Oliveros E, MacKay A (2006) Advanced oxidation processes for organic contaminant destruction based on the Fenton reaction and related chemistry. Crit Rev Env Sci Technol 36(1):1–84
Li Y, Fang Z, He C, Zhang Y, Xu C, Chung KH, Shi Q (2015) Molecular characterization and transformation of dissolved organic matter in refinery wastewater from water treatment processes: characterization by fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. Energy Fuel 29(11):6956–6963
Świetlik JS, Sikorska E (2005) Characterization of natural organic matter fractions by high pressure size–exclusion chromatography, specific UV absorbance and total luminescence spectroscopy. Pol J Environ Stud 15(1):145–153
Hu HY, Du Y, Wu QY, Zhao X, Tang X, Chen Z (2016) Differences in dissolved organic matter between reclaimed water source and drinking water source. Sci Total Environ 551–552:133–142
Fabris R, Chow C, Tran T, Gray S, Drikas M (2008) Development of combined treatment processes for the removal of recalcitrant organic matter. CMSE Internal Technical Report 2008–316, CSIRO, Canberra
Pavlik JW, Perdue EM (2015) Number–average molecular weights of natural organic matter, hydrophobic acids, and transphilic acids from the suwannee river, georgia, as determined using vapor pressure osmometry. Environ Eng Sci 32(1):23–30
Pan Y, Li H, Zhang X, Li A (2016) Characterization of natural organic matter in drinking water: sample preparation and analytical approaches. Trends Environ Anal Chem 12:23–30
Rodríguez FJ, Núñez LA (2011) Characterization of aquatic humic substances. Water Environ J 25(2):163–170
Stylianou SK, Katsoyiannis IA, Ernst M, Zouboulis AI (2017) Impact of O3 or O3/H2O2 treatment via a membrane contacting system on the composition and characteristics of the natural organic matter of surface waters. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356–017–9554–8
Moncayo-Lasso A, Rincon A-G, Pulgarin C, Benitez N (2012) Significant decrease of THMs generated during chlorination of river water by previous photo–Fenton treatment at near neutral pH. J Photochem Photobiol A 229(1):46–52
Uyguner CS, Bekbolet M (2005) Implementation of spectroscopic parameters for practical monitoring of natural organic matter. Desalination 176(1–3):47–55
Naddeo V, Belgiorno V, Napoli RMA (2007) Behaviour of natural organic matter during ultrasonic irradiation. Desalination 210(1–3):175–182
Kujawinski EB, Del Vecchio R, Blough NV, Klein GC, Marshall AG (2004) Probing molecular–level transformations of dissolved organic matter: insights on photochemical degradation and protozoan modification of DOM from electrospray ionization Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. Mar Chem 92(1–4):23–37
Galeano LA, Vicente MA, Gil A (2014) Catalytic degradation of organic pollutants in aqueous streams by mixed Al/M–pillared clays (M = Fe, Cu, Mn). Catal Rev 56(3):239–287
Tsydenova O, Batoev V, Batoeva A (2015) Solar–enhanced advanced oxidation processes for water treatment: simultaneous removal of pathogens and chemical pollutants. Int J Environ Res Public Health 12(8):9542–9561
Von Sonntag CS, Schuchmann HP (1991) The elucidation of peroxyl radical reactions in aqueous solution with the help of radiation–chemical methods. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 30(10):1229–1253
Von Sonntag C, Schuchmann HP (1997) Peroxyl radicals in aqueous solutions. Peroxyl radicals. Wiley, New York
Von Sonntag C (2008) Advanced oxidation processes: mechanistic aspects. Water Sci Technol 58(5):1015–1021
Xie P, Ma J, Liu W, Zou J, Yue S (2015) Impact of UV/persulfate pretreatment on the formation of disinfection byproducts during subsequent chlorination of natural organic matter. Chem Eng J 269:203–211
Rubio-Clemente A, Torres-Palma RA, Peñuela GA (2014) Removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in aqueous environment by chemical treatments: a review. Sci Total Environ 478:201–225
Lamsal R, Walsh ME, Gagnon GA (2011) Comparison of advanced oxidation processes for the removal of natural organic matter. Water Res 45(10):3263–3269
Tubić A, Agbaba J, Dalmacija B, Perović SU, Klašnja M, Rončević S, Ivančev-Tumbas I (2011) Removal of natural organic matter from groundwater using advanced oxidation processes at a pilot scale drinking water treatment plant in the central banat region (Serbia). Ozone Sci Eng 33(4):267–278
Zhong X, Cui C, Yu S (2017) Exploring the pathways of aromatic carboxylic acids in ozone solutions. RSC Adv 7(55):34339–34347
Pisarenko AN, Stanford BD, Snyder SA, Rivera SB, Boal AK (2013) Investigation of the use of chlorine based advanced oxidation in surface water: oxidation of natural organic matter and formation of disinfection byproducts. J Adv Oxid Technol 16(1):137–150
Wang GS, Liao CH, Chen HW, Yang HC (2006) Characteristics of natural organic matter degradation in water by UV/H2O2 treatment. Environ Technol 27(3):277–287
González O, Justo A, Bacardit J, Ferrero E, Malfeito JJ, Sans C (2013) Characterization and fate of effluent organic matter treated with UV/H2O2 and ozonation. Chem Eng J 226:402–408
Wang WL, Zhang X, Wu QY, Du Y, Hu HY (2017) Degradation of natural organic matter by UV/chlorine oxidation: molecular decomposition, formation of oxidation byproducts and cytotoxicity. Water Res 124:251–258
Fang JY, Fu Y, Shang C (2014) The roles of reactive species in micropollutant degradation in the UV/free chlorine system. Environ Sci Technol 48(3):1859–1868
Giannakis S, Gamarra Vives FA, Grandjean D, Magnet A, De Alencastro LF, Pulgarin C (2015) Effect of advanced oxidation processes on the micropollutants and the effluent organic matter contained in municipal wastewater previously treated by three different secondary methods. Water Res 84:295–306
Porras J, Bedoya C, Silva-Agredo J, Santamaria A, Fernandez JJ, Torres-Palma RA (2016) Role of humic substances in the degradation pathways and residual antibacterial activity during the photodecomposition of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin in water. Water Res 94:1–9
Blough NV, Zepp RG (1995) Active oxygen in chemistry. In: Foote CS, Valentine JS, Greenberg A, Liebman JF (eds) Structure energetics and reactivity in chemistry series1st edn. Chapman & Hall, London, pp 280–333
Birben NC, Uyguner-Demirel CS, Kavurmaci SS, Gürkan YY, Turkten N, Cinar Z, Bekbolet M (2017) Application of Fe–doped TiO2 specimens for the solar photocatalytic degradation of humic acid. Catal Today 281:78–84
Li Y, Pan Y, Lian L, Yan S, Song W, Yang X (2017) Photosensitized degradation of acetaminophen in natural organic matter solutions: the role of triplet states and oxygen. Water Res 109:266–273
Murray CA, Parsons SA (2004) Removal of NOM from drinking water: Fenton’s and photo–Fenton’s processes. Chemosphere 54(7):1017–1023
Molnar J, Agbaba J, Watson M, Tubić A, Kragulj M, Maletić S, Dalmacija B (2015) Groundwater treatment using the Fenton process: changes in natural organic matter characteristics and arsenic removal. Int J Environ Res 9(2):467–474
Giannakis S, Polo Lopez MI, Spuhler D, Sanchez Perez JA, Fernandez Ibanez P, Pulgarin C (2016) Solar disinfection is an augmentable, in situ–generated photo–Fenton reaction part 2: a review of the applications for drinking water and wastewater disinfection. Appl Catal B 198:431–446
Moncayo-Lasso A, Sanabria J, Pulgarin C, Benitez N (2009) Simultaneous E. coli inactivation and NOM degradation in river water via photo–Fenton process at natural pH in solar CPC reactor. A new way for enhancing solar disinfection of natural water. Chemosphere 77(2):296–300
Greathouse J, Johnson K, Greenwell H (2014) Interaction of natural organic matter with layered minerals: recent developments in computational methods at the nanoscale. Minerals 4(2):519–540
Liu S, May L, Fabris R, Chow C, Drikas M, Amal R (2008) TiO2 photocatalysis of natural organic matter in surface water: impact on trihalomethane and haloacetic acid formation potential. Environ Sci Technol 42:6218–6223
Brame J, Long M, Li Q, Alvarez P (2015) Inhibitory effect of natural organic matter or other background constituents on photocatalytic advanced oxidation processes: mechanistic model development and validation. Water Res 84:362–371
Sen Kavurmaci S, Bekbolet M (2013) Photocatalytic degradation of humic acid in the presence of montmorillonite. Appl Clay Sci 75–76:60–66
Chen D, Ziqi H, Weavers LK, Chin Y-P, Walker HW, Hatcher PG (2004) Sonochemical reactions of dissolved organic matter. Res Chem Intermed 30(7–8):735–753
Olson TM, Barbier PF (1994) Oxidation kinetics of natural organic matter by sonolysis and ozone. Water Res 28(6):1383–1391
Pourzamani H, Majd AMS, Attar HM, Bina B (2015) Natural organic matter degradation using combined process of ultrasonic and hydrogen peroxide treatment. Anu Inst Geocienc 38(1):63–72
Serna-Galvis EA, Silva-Agredo J, Giraldo-Aguirre AL, Flórez-Acosta OA, Torres-Palma RA (2016) High frequency ultrasound as a selective advanced oxidation process to remove penicillinic antibiotics and eliminate its antimicrobial activity from water. Ultrason Sonochem 31:276–283
Guzman-Duque FL, Pétrier C, Pulgarin C, Peñuela G, Herrera-Calderón E, Torres-Palma RA (2016) Synergistic coupling between electrochemical and ultrasound treatments for organic pollutant degradation as a function of the electrode material (IrO2 and BDD) and the ultrasonic frequency (20 and 800 kHz). Int J Electrochem Sci 11(9):7380–7394
Al-Juboori RA, Yusaf T, Aravinthan V, Bowtell L (2016) Investigating natural organic carbon removal and structural alteration induced by pulsed ultrasound. Sci Total Environ 541:1019–1030
Acknowledgements
Financial support from CWPO Project for Enhanced Drinking Water in Nariño (BPIN 2014000100020), CT&I Fund of SGR, Colombia, is kindly acknowledged. MAV and AG thank the support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) (projects MAT2013-47811-C2-R and MAT2016-78863-C2-R). AMG also gratefully thanks PhD scholarship granted by Nariño Department (BPIN 2013000100092) and Managed by CEIBA Foundation, Colombia.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 Springer International Publishing AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
García, AM., Torres-Palma, R.A., Galeano, L.A., Vicente, M.Á., Gil, A. (2017). Separation and Characterization of NOM Intermediates Along AOP Oxidation. In: Gil, A., Galeano, L., Vicente, M. (eds) Applications of Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) in Drinking Water Treatment. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 67. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2017_128
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2017_128
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-76881-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-76882-3
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)