Chlorination and chloramination of aminophenols in aqueous solution: oxidant demand and by-product formation

Abstract

Chlorination and monochloramination of aminophenols (AP) were carried out in aqueous solution at 25°C and at pH 8.5. Oxidant demand and disinfection by-product formation were determined in excess of oxidant. Experiments have shown that chlorine consumption of AP was 40–60% higher than monochloramine consumption. Compared with monochloramination, chlorination of AP formed more chloroform and haloacetic acids (HAA). Dichloroacetic acid was the major species of HAA. Chloroform and HAA represented, respectively, only 1–8% and 14–15% of adsorbable organic halides (AOX) by monochloramination but up to 29% and 39% of AOX by chlorination.

Keywords:

• aminophenol
• chlorine
• monochloramine
• AOX
• DBP

Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the National Council for Scientific Research of Lebanon.