Butterworth-Heinemann Disinfection By-products in Drinking Water: Detection and Treatment

Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water: Detection and Treatment presents cutting-edge research on how to understand the procedures, processes and considerations for detecting and treating disinfection by-products from drinking water, swimming pool water, and wastewater. The book begins with an overview of the different groups of Disinfection Byproducts (DBPs), such as: Trihalomethanes (THM), Halo acetic acids, and Haloacetonitrile (HAN). This coverage is quickly followed by a clear and rigorous exposition of the latest methods and technologies for the characterization, occurrence, formation, transformation and removal of DBPs in drinking water. Other chapters focus on ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, electron spin resonance, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Researchers will find a valuable resource to a breath of topics for DBP detection and treatment, including various recent techniques, such as microfiltration, nanofiltration membrane and nanotechnology. Review A valuable resource on the latest research into the methods and techniques for the detecting and treating disinfection byproducts in water From the Back Cover By design, disinfectants are strong oxidizing agents, which can react with the natural organic matter, resulting in the formation of disinfection byproducts. This reaction presents a serious challenge to researchers because natural organic matter is inherently complex, variable and typically poorly characterized. Disinfection Byproducts Detection and Treatment present cutting edge research for understanding the procedures, processes and considerations for detecting and treating disinfection by-products from drinking water, swimming pool water, and wastewater. Different water disinfectants produce different types of disinfection byproducts, Disinfection Byproducts Detection and Treatment begins with an overview of the different groups of Disinfection Byproducts (DBPs) such as: Trihalomethanes (THM), Halo acetic acids, and Haloacetonitrile (HAN). This coverage is quickly followed by a clear and rigorous exposition of latest methods and technologies for the characterization, occurrence, formation, transformation, and removal of DBPs in drinking water as well as different chapters focussing ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, electron spin resonance, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Researchers will find a valuable resource to a breath of topics for DBP detection and treatment including various recent techniques such as: microfiltration, nanofiltration membrane and nanotechnology. About the Author Dr Prasad is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Hyderabad. He has served the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India in various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist in several international universities. He is the editor, co-editor, or author of 17 books published by leading international publishers and 190 journal articles and 118 book chapters/conference proceedings. He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of Bioremediation, Bioresources, Biomass energy sources, bioeconomy and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology (including value chain and value addition products from plants used in phytoremediation) all of which are his main areas of expertise.