The dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays significant role in water safety due to not only the natural occurrence but also man-induced pollution. To characterize and predict DOM treatability becomes therefore a very important and hot topic. In this paper, enhanced coagulation by four typical coagulants (FeCl3, Al2(SO4)3, polyaluminum chloride (PAC) and high performance polyaluminum chloride (HPAC)) without pH control was characterized using the chemical fractionation (resin adsorption, RA) and physical fractionation (high performance size exclusion chromatography (HPSEC) combined with peak fitting technique). The results show that the DOM removal can be separated into two stages, rapid removal and continual slow removal. The PAC exhibits efficient removal in the rapid part while the traditional salts are more efficient in the latter part. It is also very important for pH control to improve DOM removal by the traditional coagulants. DOM treatability per unit dosage (1 × 10−4 mol/l) for the four coagulants was then calculated in the order of HPAC (26.0%) > PAC (17.3%) > FeCl3 (14.3%) > Al2(SO4)3 (12.0%). Two sets of DOM treatability models, i.e. removal efficiency, for enhanced coagulation of the four coagulants were developed by combining the chemical and physical DOM fractions based on the quantitative analysis of the removal state of raw water. The two sets of models could be transformed to each other. The composition of the removable DOM by enhanced coagulation of the four coagulants was revealed and validated using 29 raw waters (in 13 source waters in three seasons), and as a result the low deviation indicated that the predicted data matched well with the actual data. It provided the possibility for the application in practical operation of water plant.
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Dongsheng Wang;
1State Key Lab of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, RCEES, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
3SA Water Centre for Water Management and Reuse, NBE, University of South Australia, Australia
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Jiankun Xie;
Jiankun Xie
1State Key Lab of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, RCEES, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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Chris W. K. Chow;
Chris W. K. Chow
1State Key Lab of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, RCEES, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
2Australian Water Quality Centre, 250 Victoria Square, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
3SA Water Centre for Water Management and Reuse, NBE, University of South Australia, Australia
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Linan Xing;
Linan Xing
1State Key Lab of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, RCEES, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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John van Leeuwen
John van Leeuwen
3SA Water Centre for Water Management and Reuse, NBE, University of South Australia, Australia
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Water Supply (2013) 13 (1): 147–157.
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Received:
February 11 2012
Accepted:
August 01 2012
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Dongsheng Wang, Jiankun Xie, Chris W. K. Chow, Linan Xing, John van Leeuwen; Characterization and predicting DOM treatability by enhanced coagulation. Water Supply 1 February 2013; 13 (1): 147–157. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2012.095
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