Production and performance of activated carbon from rice husks for removal of natural organic matter from water: a review

E Menya, PW Olupot, H Storz, M Lubwama… - … Research and Design, 2018 - Elsevier
Adsorption by activated carbon has great potential to improve natural organic matter (NOM)
removal from water. However, the high production and regeneration costs limit its wide scale …

A review on Trihalomethanes and Haloacetic acids in drinking water: Global status, health impact, insights of control and removal technologies

R Sinha, AK Gupta, PS Ghosal - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
The ever-growing water pollution evokes the inevitability of disinfection, especially by
chlorination from decades, although the emergence of many carcinogenic disinfection by …

Behavior of trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids in a drinking water distribution system

MJ Rodriguez, JB Sérodes, P Levallois - Water research, 2004 - Elsevier
This investigation focused on the seasonal variation and spatial fate of chlorination
disinfection by-products (CDBPs) in a drinking water distribution system located in a region …

Natural organic matter as precursor to disinfection byproducts and its removal using conventional and advanced processes: state of the art review

S Tak, BP Vellanki - Journal of water and health, 2018 - iwaponline.com
Natural organic matter (NOM) is ubiquitous in the aquatic environment and if present can
cause varied drinking water quality issues, the major one being disinfection byproduct (DBP) …

Chloroform in the environment: occurrence, sources, sinks and effects

A McCulloch - Chemosphere, 2003 - Elsevier
The chloroform flux through the environment is apparently constant at some 660±220 Ggyr−
1 (±1σ) and about 90% of the emissions are natural in origin: the largest single source being …

Determination of organic compounds in bottled waters

SV Leivadara, AD Nikolaou, TD Lekkas - Food chemistry, 2008 - Elsevier
The presence of organic compounds in bottled waters available in the Greek market and
their fate when the representative samples exposed at different conditions were the main …

Multiple regression models: A methodology for evaluating trihalomethane concentrations in drinking water from raw water characteristics

SK Golfinopoulos, GB Arhonditsis - Chemosphere, 2002 - Elsevier
The presence of trihalomethanes (THMs) in drinking water has attracted the attention of both
researchers and professionals, because of the harmful effects of these substances on …

Molecular size distribution of dissolved organic matter in water of the Pearl River and trihalomethane formation characteristics with chlorine and chlorine dioxide …

ZY Zhao, JD Gu, XJ Fan, HB Li - Journal of hazardous materials, 2006 - Elsevier
River water sample was collected from Guangzhou section of the Pearl River to investigate
soluble organic fractions and formation of trihalomethane (THMs) after chlorine and chlorine …

Survey of disinfection by-products in drinking water in Athens, Greece

SK Golfinopoulos, AD Nikolaou - Desalination, 2005 - Elsevier
An investigation into the occurrence of disinfection by-products (DBPs) was conducted for a
period of two years (2001–2002) on the drinking water of Athens, Greece. Samples from four …

Trihalomethane formation by chlorination of ammonium-and bromide-containing groundwater in water supplies of Hanoi, Vietnam

HA Duong, M Berg, MH Hoang, HV Pham, H Gallard… - Water Research, 2003 - Elsevier
The occurrence and the fate of trihalomethanes (THMs) in the water supply system of Hanoi
City, Vietnam was investigated from 1998 to 2001. The chlorination efficiency, THM …