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Structural and Chemical Characterization of Aquatic Humic Substances in Conventional Water Treatment Processes  

Kim, Hyun-Chul (Water Environment and Remediation Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
Yu, Myong-Jin (Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Seoul)
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Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers / v.27, no.1, 2005 , pp. 11-16 More about this Journal
Abstract
Humic substances(HS) from raw and process waters at a conventional water treatment plant were isolated and extracted by physicochemical fractionation methods to investigate their characteristics. They are characterized for their functionality, chemical composition, and spectroscopic characteristics using FT-IR(Fourier transform infrared) and $^1H-NMR$(proton nuclear magnetic resonance) spectroscopy. Humic fraction gradually decreased from 47.2% to 26.4%(from 0.97 to 0.54 mgC/L) through conventional water treatment processes. Concentration of phenolic groups in the HS fraction gradually decreased from 60.5% to 21.8%(from 12.2 to $6.0\;{\mu}M/L$ as phenolic-OH) through water treatment. In the case of carboxylic groups, the concentration increased from 39.5% to 46.9%(from 7.9 to $10.6\;{\mu}M/L$ as COOH) by pre-chlorination, but gradually decreased to 34.2%($9.4\;{\mu}M/L$ as COOH) through sedimentation and sand filtration. From the results of the FT-IR and $^1H-NMR$ spectra of HS, the content of carboxylic groups increased and ratio of aliphatic protons to aromatic protons($P_{Al}/P_{Ar}$) also increased through water treatment, which indicated the increase of aliphatic compounds.
Keywords
Humic Substances; Humification Degree; Aromaticity; FT-IR; $^1H-NMR$;
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