TY - JOUR
T1 - Removal of Total Organic Carbon (TOC)/Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) and Trihalomethane Formation Potentials (THMFPs) from Surface Water using PreBiofilters
AU - Fu, George Yuzhu
AU - Rogers, Peter D.
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Biofiltration has long been used to treat drinking water in Europe and is becoming more widespread in North America. Pre-biofilters, or biofilters that operate as the first unit in a surface water treatment process train, are a cost-effective pretreatment for conventional surface water treatment and provide consistent downstream water quality. This paper describes a study that investigated the potential to remove total organic carbon (TOC)/dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and trihalomethane formation potential (THMFP) from surface water using prebiofilters. Furthermore, the impact of different molecular weight fractions of TOC/DOC and THMFPs in the surface water and the filtrates from the pre-biofilters were also investigated, respectively, in order to determine how well the prebiofilters can remove different fractions of TOC/DOC and THMFPs.
AB - Biofiltration has long been used to treat drinking water in Europe and is becoming more widespread in North America. Pre-biofilters, or biofilters that operate as the first unit in a surface water treatment process train, are a cost-effective pretreatment for conventional surface water treatment and provide consistent downstream water quality. This paper describes a study that investigated the potential to remove total organic carbon (TOC)/dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and trihalomethane formation potential (THMFP) from surface water using prebiofilters. Furthermore, the impact of different molecular weight fractions of TOC/DOC and THMFPs in the surface water and the filtrates from the pre-biofilters were also investigated, respectively, in order to determine how well the prebiofilters can remove different fractions of TOC/DOC and THMFPs.
KW - Biofiltration
KW - DOC
KW - Dissolved organic carbon
KW - THMFP
KW - TOC
KW - Total organic carbon
KW - Trihalomethane formation potential
UR - https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/civil-eng-facpubs/7
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M3 - Article
JO - 2014 Annual Conference Proceedings American Water Works Association
JF - 2014 Annual Conference Proceedings American Water Works Association
ER -