Sunlight enhanced the formation of tribromomethane from benzotriazole degradation during the sunlight/free chlorine treatment in the presence of bromide

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The coexistence of free chlorine and bromide under sunlight irradiation (sunlight/FC with Br-) is unavoidable in outdoor seawater swimming pools, and the formation of brominated disinfection byproducts could act more harmful than chlorinated disinfection byproducts. In this study, benzotriazole was selected as a model compound to investigate the degradation rate and the subsequent formation of disinfection byproducts via sunlight/FC with Br- process. The rate constants for the degradation of benzotriazole under pseudo first order conditions in sunlight/FC with Br- and sunlight/FC are 2.3 ± 0.07 × 10-1 min-1 and 6.0 ± 0.7 × 10-2 min-1, respectively. The enhanced degradation of benzotriazole can be ascribed to the generation of HO•, bromine species, and reactive halogen species (RHS) during sunlight/FC with Br-. Despite the fact that sunlight/FC with Br- process enhanced benzotriazole degradation, the reaction results in increasing tribromomethane (TBM) formation. A high concentration (37.8 μg/L) of TBM was detected in the sunlight/FC with Br-, which was due to the reaction of RHS. The degradation of benzotriazole was notably influenced by the pH value (pH 4 - 11), the concentration of bromide (0 - 2 mM), and free chlorine (1 - 6 mg/L). Furthermore, the concentration of TBM increased when the free chlorine concentrations increased, implying the formation potential of harmful TBM in chlorinated seawater swimming pools.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:357

Enthalten in:

Chemosphere - 357(2024) vom: 13. Apr., Seite 142039

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hsieh, Ming-Chi [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Wan-Ning [VerfasserIn]
Chu, Yi-Hsuan [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Hank Hui-Hsiang [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Angela Yu-Chen [VerfasserIn]

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Bromide
Bromine species
Journal Article
Reactive halogen species
Sunlight/FC
Tribromomethane

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Date Revised 19.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142039

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NLM37110615X