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Chlorination and Ozonation

03/01/02
Category: Sponsored by GWRI
Posted by: Kaushik Surendran
Investigation of Chlorination and Ozonation of Antibiotics Detected in Georgia Waters

 Ching-Hua Huang (Georgia Tech)

Technical Report


Principal Investigator: Ching-Hua Huang (Georgia Tech)      About...

Sponsor: GWRI

Start Date: 2002-03-01; Completion Date: 2003-02-28;

Keywords: Water Quality, Water Treatment, Wastewater

Description:

Results of this study indicate that representative members of three environmentally relevant antibiotic classes - fluoroquinolones, sulfonamides, and dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) inhibitors - are substantially degraded under conditions simulating chlorination of water supplies during disinfection processes, yielding a wide variety of lower and higher mass degradates. The mechanistic understanding of the reactions between chlorine and these three antibiotics classes provides a critical basis for predicting the fate of related antibiotics and pollutants in the chlorination disinfection processes.


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