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Predictation of the Concentrations and Distributions of Refractory Organic Matters in Wastewater using Spectroscopic Characteristics  

Lee, Bomi (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sejong University)
Park, Min-Hye (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sejong University)
Lee, Tae-Hwan (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sejong University)
Hur, Jin (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sejong University)
Yang, Heejung (Han-River Environment Research Center)
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Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment / v.25, no.4, 2009 , pp. 560-567 More about this Journal
Abstract
Treated or untreated wastewater may be a major source of refractory organic matters (R-OM) in drinking water sources. For this study, spectroscopic characteristics of wastewater OM were investigated using the samples from 20 wastewater treatment plants, which are located at the upstream of the lake Paldang, to suggest a estimate index for R-OM in wastewater. R-OM was quantified by measuring total organic carbon (TOC) concentration of the wastewater samples remaining after 28-day dark incubation. Among the traditional OM indices such as chemical oxygen demand (COD) and initial TOC, CODMn showed the lowest correlation coefficients with R-TOC of the samples. The ratios of carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand (CBOD) to $COD_{Cr}$ had a better correlation with the percent distribution of R-OM than $BOD/COD_{Cr}$ ratios. terrestrial humic-like fluorescence (THLF) exhibited the highest correlation coefficient with R-TOC among the indices obtained from the synchronous fluorescence spectra of the samples. Milori index, one of the humification indices, showed a good correlation with the percent distribution of wastewater. This study demonstrated that fluorescence properties might be a better indices to estimate the concentrations and the distributions of wastewater OM compared to the specific UV absorbance (SUVA) values. Some useful formulas based on OM spectroscopic characteristics were finally suggested to predict R-OM in wastewater.
Keywords
Fluorescence spectroscopy; Humification index; Refractory organic matter; UV absorbance;
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