Abstract
There is a renewed interest in predicting RCT following growing evidence that AOP is effective against many emerging contaminants. Five surface waters were investigated to evaluate the OH-radical activity using the RCT concept, predict RCT using traditional water quality characteristics and predict contaminants removal by ozonation and peroxone. It was shown that RCT was dependent on water quality characteristics and could be modeled (R2 = 0.92), using water characteristics and treatment conditions. Predictions of MIB oxidation closely matched the published data of CitationKawamura (2000) and bench-scale assays performed on one of the water under investigation.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This project was funded by the Industrial-NSERC Chair in Drinking Water supported by the City of Montreal, John-Meunier Inc. and the City of Laval. The authors also wish to acknowledge the help of Jacinthe Mailly and Julie Philibert for performing some of the routine analysis.