Emerging (chemical) substances are increasingly found in water sources and must be removed by water treatment systems. However, the treatment efficiency regarding these substances is often unknown. A promising approach is using QSARs (quantitative structure activity relationships) or QSPRs (quantitative structure property relationships) to correlate the existing knowledge of a compound's chemical structure to water treatment process properties, such as a biological activity or physico-chemical property. As UV/H2O2 treatment of water is an important barrier against priority pollutants, a QSAR model has been developed for the prediction of a typical physico-chemical property: i.e. hydroxyl radical reaction constants. Hydroxyl radicals are highly reactive and therefore largely responsible for a compound's degradation during UV/H2O2 treatment. A good correlation is found for the training data set. Chemical parameters that were related to charge on C atoms and topology of the compound were found to be important for the hydroxyl radical rate constants. So far, these results look promising, but further research is still required to increase the predictability of the model and to develop QSAR models for other physico-chemical properties.
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October 01 2012
On a QSAR approach for the prediction of priority compound degradation by water treatment processes
B. A. Wols;
1KWR Watercycle Research Institute, P.O. box 1072, 3430 BB Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
2Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
E-mail: bas.wols@kwrwater.nl
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D. Vries
D. Vries
1KWR Watercycle Research Institute, P.O. box 1072, 3430 BB Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
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Water Sci Technol (2012) 66 (7): 1446–1453.
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Received:
February 16 2012
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May 03 2012
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B. A. Wols, D. Vries; On a QSAR approach for the prediction of priority compound degradation by water treatment processes. Water Sci Technol 1 October 2012; 66 (7): 1446–1453. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2012.328
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