Published book: Chemistry of Ozone in Water and Wastewater Treatment
© 2012 EPFL
The book "Chemistry of Ozone in Water and Wastewater Treatment - From Basic Principles to Applications" was published by IWA Publishing, London on the September 1, 2012.
Authors: Prof. Clemens von Sonntag (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany) and Prof. Urs von Gunten (EAWAG et EPFL, Switzerland).
• A very useful source of information for researchers and practitioners who need kinetic information on emerging contaminants.
• Contains a large selection of examples of reaction mechanisms for the transformation of micropollutants such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, fuel additives, solvents, taste and odor compounds, cyanotoxins.
Even though ozone has been applied for a long time for disinfection and oxidation in
water treatment, there is lack of critical information related to transformation of
organic compounds. This has become more important in recent years, because there is
considerable concern about the formation of potentially harmful degradation products
as well as oxidation products from the reaction with the matrix components. In recent
years, a wealth of information on the products that are formed has accumulated, and
substantial progress in understanding mechanistic details of ozone reactions in aqueous
solution has been made. Based on the latter, this may allow us to predict the products of
as yet not studied systems and assist in evaluating toxic potentials in case certain classes
are known to show such effects. Keeping this in mind, Chemistry of Ozone in Water and
Wastewater Treatment: From Basic Principles to Applications discusses mechanistic
details of ozone reactions as much as they are known to date and applies them to the
large body of studies on micropollutant degradation (such as pharmaceuticals and
endocrine disruptors) that is already available.