Issue 10, 2011

Penetration of polar brominated DBPs through the activated carbon columns during total organic bromine analysis

Abstract

Total organic bromine (TOBr) is a collective parameter representing all the brominated organic disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in water samples. TOBr can be measured using the adsorption–pyrolysis method according to Standard Method 5320B. This method involves that brominated organic DBPs are separated from inorganic halides and concentrated from aqueous solution by adsorption onto the activated carbon (AC). Previous studies have reported that some commonly known brominated DBPs can partially penetrate through the AC during this adsorption step. In this work, the penetration of polar brominated DBPs through AC and ozone-modified AC was explored with two simulated drinking water samples and one chlorinated wastewater effluent sample. Polar brominated DBPs were selectively detected with a novel precursor ion scan method using electrospray ionization-triple quadrupole mass spectrometry. The results show that 3.4% and 10.4% of polar brominated DBPs (in terms of total ion intensity) in the chlorinated Suwannee River fulvic acid and humic acid samples, respectively, penetrated through the AC, and 19.6% of polar brominated DBPs in the chlorinated secondary wastewater effluent sample penetrated through the AC. The ozone-modification of AC minimized the penetration of polar brominated DBPs during the TOBr analysis.

Graphical abstract: Penetration of polar brominated DBPs through the activated carbon columns during total organic bromine analysis

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
12 May 2011
Accepted
26 Jul 2011
First published
22 Aug 2011

J. Environ. Monit., 2011,13, 2851-2857

Penetration of polar brominated DBPs through the activated carbon columns during total organic bromine analysis

Y. Li, X. Zhang, S. W. Krasner, C. Shang, H. Zhai, J. Liu and M. Yang, J. Environ. Monit., 2011, 13, 2851 DOI: 10.1039/C1EM10397K

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