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  • Evaluating dissolved organic carbon-water partitioning using polyparameter linear free energy relationships: Implications for the fate of disinfection by-products

    Author(s)
    Neale, Peta A
    Escher, Beate I
    Goss, Kai-Uwe
    Endo, Satoshi
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    Neale, Peta A.
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    The partitioning of micropollutants to dissolved organic carbon (DOC) can influence their toxicity, degradation, and transport in aquatic systems. In this study carbon-normalized DOC-water partition coefficients (K DOC-w) were measured for a range of non-polar and polar compounds with Suwannee River fulvic acid (FA) using headspace and solid-phase microextraction (SPME) methods. The studied chemicals were selected to represent a range of properties including van der Waal forces, cavity formation and hydrogen bonding interactions. The K DOC-w values were used to calibrate a polyparameter linear free energy relationship ...
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    The partitioning of micropollutants to dissolved organic carbon (DOC) can influence their toxicity, degradation, and transport in aquatic systems. In this study carbon-normalized DOC-water partition coefficients (K DOC-w) were measured for a range of non-polar and polar compounds with Suwannee River fulvic acid (FA) using headspace and solid-phase microextraction (SPME) methods. The studied chemicals were selected to represent a range of properties including van der Waal forces, cavity formation and hydrogen bonding interactions. The K DOC-w values were used to calibrate a polyparameter linear free energy relationship (pp-LFER). The difference between experimental and pp-LFER calculated K DOC-w values was generally less than 0.3 log units, indicating that the calibrated pp-LFER could provide a good indication of micropollutant interaction with FA, though statistical analysis suggested that more data would improve the predictive capacity of the model. A pp-LFER was also calibrated for Aldrich humic acid (HA) using K DOC-w values collected from the literature. Both experimental and pp-LFER calculated K DOC-w values for Aldrich HA were around one order of magnitude greater than Suwannee River FA. This difference can be explained by the higher cavity formation energy in Suwannee River FA. Experimental and pp-LFER calculated K DOC-w values were compared for halogenated alkanes and alkenes, including trihalomethane disinfection by-products, with good agreement between the two approaches. Experimental and calculated values show that DOC-water partitioning is generally low; indicating that sorption to DOC is not an important fate process for these chemicals in the environment.
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    Journal Title
    Water Research
    Volume
    46
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2012.04.005
    Subject
    Atmospheric composition, chemistry and processes
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/67205
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