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IWW Water Centre[Affiliation] Publications | LitMetric

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To mitigate groundwater level decline, managed aquifer recharge (MAR) with secondary treated wastewater (STWW) is increasingly considered and implemented. However, the effectiveness and potential risks of such systems need evaluation prior to implementation. In this study, we present a large-scale sand tank experiment to analyse processes related to the infiltration of real STWW through the vadose zone and subsequent mixing with oxic native groundwater.

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Article Synopsis
  • Fenton-like processes utilizing persulfate for water treatment can be improved by adding redox-active biochar, which helps convert Fe(III) to Fe(II) and increases reactive species that can break down contaminants.
  • Research found inconsistent data regarding the formation of reactive species in the biochar/Fe(III)/persulfate system, which complicates assessments of treatment effectiveness across different water types.
  • Through experiments, findings suggest that sulfate radicals are the primary reactive species in pure water, while the presence of organic matter and varying chloride levels can alter the dominant reactive species and enhance contaminant degradation.
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UV-induced reactive species dynamics and product formation by chlorite.

Water Res

October 2024

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK; Water Innovation and Research Centre, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, UK. Electronic address:

Chlorite (ClO) is a regulated byproduct of chlorine dioxide water treatment processes. The transformation of chlorite under UV irradiation into chloride (Cl) and chlorate (ClO) involves reactive species chain reactions that could enhance chlorine dioxide water treatment efficiency while reducing residual chlorite levels. This study conducted a mechanistic investigation of chlorite phototransformation by analyzing reaction intermediates and stable end products, including chlorine dioxide (ClO), free chlorine (HOCl/OCl), hydroxyl‑radical (OH), Cl, and ClO through combined experimental and modeling approaches.

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Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are a growing research field with a large variety of different process variants and materials being tested at laboratory scale. However, despite extensive research in recent years and decades, many variants have not been transitioned to pilot- and full-scale operation. One major concern are the inconsistent experimental approaches applied across different studies that impede identification, comparison, and upscaling of the most promising AOPs.

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Competitive sorption experiments reveal new regression models to predict PhACs sorption on carbonaceous materials.

J Hazard Mater

June 2024

Technical University of Darmstadt, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Schnittspahnstraße 9, Darmstadt D-64287, Germany; Water Resources Management Division, IWW Water Centre, Moritzstraße 26, Mülheim an der Ruhr D-45476, Germany.

Sorption of hydrophobic organic contaminants onto thermally altered carbonaceous materials (TACM) constitutes a widely used technology for remediation of polluted waters. This process is typically described by sorption isotherms, with one of the most used models, the Polanyi-Dubinin-Manes (PDM) equation, including water solubility (S) as a normalizing factor. In case of pharmaceutical active compounds (PhACs), S depends on the pH of the environment due to the ionic/ionizable behavior of these chemicals, a fact frequently ignored in sorption studies of PhACs.

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The evaluation of nontarget analysis (NTA) techniques for the monitoring of wastewater is important as wastewater is an anthropogenic pollution source for aquatic ecosystems and a threat to human and environmental health. This study presents the proof-of-concept NTA of industrial wastewater samples. A prototype hydrophilic-lipophilic-balanced (HLB) SPME and gas chromatography interfaced with time-of-flight high-resolution mass spectrometry (GC-TOFMS) with electron ionization (EI) and chemical ionization (CI) in parallel are employed.

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Efficiency of ozonation and sulfate radical - AOP for removal of pharmaceuticals, corrosion inhibitors, x-ray contrast media and perfluorinated compounds from reverse osmosis concentrates.

Water Res

May 2024

Faculty of Chemistry, Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 5, 45141, Essen, Germany; IWW Water Centre, Moritzstraße 26, 45476, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany; Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU), Universitätsstraße 5, 45141, Essen, Germany.

This study investigated the elimination of pharmaceuticals, corrosion inhibitors, x-ray contrast media and perfluorinated compounds from reverse osmosis concentrates during ozonation and UV/persulfate processes. Second-order rate constants for the reactions of candesartan, irbesartan, methyl-benzotriazole, and chloro‑benzotriazole with sulfate radical (SO) were determined for the first time. Experiments were conducted in buffered pure water, in buffered water added with the matrix substituents chloride, carbonate, NOM, and reverse osmosis concentrate with spiked micropollutants (MP).

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Analysis of aromatic amines in human urine using comprehensive multi-dimensional gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCxGC-MS).

Int J Hyg Environ Health

April 2024

Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstrasse 5, 45141, Essen, Germany; Centre for Water and Environmental Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstrasse 5, 45141, Essen, Germany; IWW Water Centre, Moritzstrasse 26, 45476, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. Electronic address:

Several aromatic amines (AA) are classified as human carcinogens, and tobacco smoke is one of the main sources of exposure. Once in the human body, they undergo different metabolic pathways which lead to either their excretion or ultimately to the formation of DNA and protein adducts. The aim of this study was to investigate AA in 68 urine samples (aged 29-79, 47% female), including 10 smokers (S), 28 past-smokers (PS) and 30 never-smokers (NS), and to study if there was a relation between the smoking status and the amount of the AA present.

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Elucidating the inhibitory effects of natural organic matter on the photodegradation of organic micropollutants: Atrazine as a probe compound.

Chemosphere

March 2024

Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 5, Essen, Germany; Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU), Universitätsstraße 5, 45141, Essen, Germany; IWW Water Centre, Moritzstraße 26, 45476, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.

Natural organic matter (NOM) is a complex mixture of heterogeneous compounds with varying functional groups and molecular sizes. Understanding the impact of NOM on the generation of photochemically produced reactive intermediates (PPRIs) and their potential inhibitory effects on photolysis has remained challenging due to the variations in the reactivities and concentrations of these functional groups. To address this gap, tannic acid (TA), gallic acid (GA), catechin (CAT), and tryptophan (Trp), were chosen as potential substitutes for NOM.

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Non-target screening in water analysis: recent trends of data evaluation, quality assurance, and their future perspectives.

Anal Bioanal Chem

April 2024

Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, Essen, 45141, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

This trend article provides an overview of recent advancements in Non-Target Screening (NTS) for water quality assessment, focusing on new methods in data evaluation, qualification, quantification, and quality assurance (QA/QC). It highlights the evolution in NTS data processing, where open-source platforms address challenges in result comparability and data complexity. Advanced chemometrics and machine learning (ML) are pivotal for trend identification and correlation analysis, with a growing emphasis on automated workflows and robust classification models.

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Enhanced efficiency of MS/MS all-ion fragmentation for non-targeted analysis of trace contaminants in surface water using multivariate curve resolution and data fusion.

Anal Bioanal Chem

February 2024

Instrumental Analytical Chemistry and Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU), University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, Essen, 45141, Germany.

Data-independent acquisition-all-ion fragmentation (DIA-AIF) mode of mass spectrometry can facilitate wide-scope non-target analysis of contaminants in surface water due to comprehensive spectral identification. However, because of the complexity of the resulting MS AIF spectra, identifying unknown pollutants remains a significant challenge, with a significant bottleneck in translating non-targeted chemical signatures into environmental impacts. The present study proposes to process fused MS and MS data sets obtained from LC-HRMS/MS measurements in non-targeted AIF workflows on surface water samples using multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares (MCR-ALS).

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Ozonation products of purine derivatives, the basic structures of antiviral micropollutants.

Sci Total Environ

February 2024

Faculty of Chemistry, Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 5, 45141 Essen, Germany; Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU), Universitätsstraße 5, 45141 Essen, Germany; IWW Water Centre, Moritzstraße 26, 45476 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. Electronic address:

Purine and its nucleobases adenine and guanine are the basic structures of a large group of antiviral agents such as acyclovir and penciclovir. Hence, their ozonation is of interest with regard to wastewater treatment due to the formation of products that could affect the aquatic environment. In this study, the transformation products of the mentioned substances are investigated under different defined reaction conditions in order to gain insight into the ozonation characteristics of this compound class.

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Fatty acids (FAs) and fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) co-occur in many samples, and analysis of both substance classes is frequently of high interest. To this end, this study introduces the first method for simultaneous determination of FAs and FAMEs including fully automated solvent-free solid-phase microextraction (SPME) arrow headspace extraction combined with isotope-labeling in situ FA derivatization with deuterated methanol (CDOD). By using the chromatographic isotope effect (ΔR = 0.

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Oxidation of the N-containing phosphonate antiscalants NTMP and DTPMP in reverse osmosis concentrates: Reaction kinetics and degradation rate.

Chemosphere

November 2023

Faculty of Chemistry, Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 5, 45141, Essen, Germany; IWW Water Centre, Moritzstraße 26, 45476, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany; Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU), Universitätsstraße 5, 45141, Essen, Germany.

N-containing organophosphonate antiscalants such as Aminotris (methylene phosphonic acid) (NTMP/ATMP) and Diethylenetriamine penta(methylene phosphonic acid) (DTPMP) are commonly used in reverse osmosis (RO) to prevent scaling, as well as to increase permeate yields. However, the concentrate in RO still contains antiscalants which can cause adverse effects in the environment such as mobilization of heavy metals. The abatement of antiscalants from RO concentrate can promote the precipitation of oversaturated scale-forming substances and reduce the risk of adverse environmental effects.

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Contamination of groundwater with pharmaceutical active compounds (PhACs) increased over the last decades. Potential pathways of PhACs to groundwater include techniques such as irrigation, managed aquifer recharge, or bank filtration as well as natural processes such as losing streams of PhACs-loaded source waters. Usually, these systems are characterized by redox-active zones, where microorganisms grow and become immobilized by the formation of biofilms, structures that colonize the pore space and decrease the infiltration capacities, a phenomenon known as bioclogging.

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Effects of organic matter and alkalinity on the ozonation of antiviral purine derivatives as exemplary micropollutant motif.

Water Res

September 2023

Faculty of Chemistry, Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 5, 45141, Essen, Germany; Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU), Universitätsstraße 5, 45141, Essen, Germany; IWW Water Centre, Moritzstraße 26, 45476, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. Electronic address:

Ozonation of micropollutants strongly depends on the water matrix. Natural organic matter is known to highly affect the hydroxyl radical exposure due to radical promoting and inhibiting effects. Other important matrix components in ozonation are carbonate species which scavenge hydroxyl radicals.

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Improving greenness and sustainability of standard analytical methods by microextraction techniques: A critical review.

Anal Chim Acta

August 2023

Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 5, 45141, Essen, Germany; Centre for Water and Environmental Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 5, 45141, Essen, Germany; IWW Water Centre, Moritzstraße 26, 45476, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.

Since environmental awareness has increased in analytical chemistry, the demand for green sample preparation methods continues to grow. Microextractions such as solid-phase microextraction (SPME) and liquid-phase microextraction (LPME) miniaturize the pre-concentration step and are a more sustainable alternative to conventional large-scale extractions. However, the integration of microextractions in standard and routine analysis methods is rare, although these applications are used most frequently and have a role model function.

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Chlorine dioxide (ClO) is an oxidant applied in water treatment processes that is very effective for disinfection and abatement of inorganic and organic pollutants. Thereby phenol is the most important reaction partner of ClO in reactions of natural organic matter (NOM) and in pollutant degradation. It was previously reported that with specific reaction partners (e.

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Comparison of gas chromatographic techniques for the analysis of iodinated derivatives of aromatic amines.

Anal Bioanal Chem

July 2023

Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstrasse 5, 45141, Essen, Germany.

Some aromatic amines (AA) have been classified as carcinogens to humans. After entering the body, mainly through tobacco smoke, they can be detected in urine. Thus, their trace analysis as biomarkers in biofluids is of high relevance and can be achieved with gas chromatography (GC-MS), usually after derivatization.

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Oxidation of the nitrogen-free phosphonate antiscalants HEDP and PBTC in reverse osmosis concentrates: Reaction kinetics and degradation rate.

Water Res

April 2023

Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, 45141 Essen, Germany; Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU), University Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 2, 45141, Essen, Germany; IWW Water Centre, Moritzstr. 26, 45476 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.

Reverse osmosis (RO) is an advanced technology used to produce potable water from a variety of water sources, including surface water, seawater and wastewater. The yield of the product water from the RO systems is increased by the addition of antiscalants which prevent scaling from calcium and other ions. Removal of antiscalants from RO concentrate can induce the precipitation of oversaturated scale-forming substances, enable additional water recovery from RO concentrates, and reduce the risk of eutrophication after concentrate disposal into the receiving water (e.

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The fate of nitrification and urease inhibitors in simulated bank filtration.

J Environ Manage

June 2023

German Environment Agency, Section II 3.1, Schichauweg 58, 12307, Berlin, Germany.

The application of nitrification and urease inhibitors (NUI) in conjunction with nitrogen (N) fertilizers improves the efficiency of N fertilizers. However, NUI are frequently found in surface waters through leaching or surface runoff. Bank filtration (BF) is considered as a low-cost water treatment system providing high quality water by efficiently removing large amounts of organic micropollutants from surface water.

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Aromatic amines (AA) are carcinogenic compounds that can enter the human body through many sources, one of the most important being tobacco smoke. They are excreted with the urine, from which they can be extracted and measured. To that end, hollow fiber-liquid-phase microextraction (HF-LPME) and parallel artificial liquid membrane extraction (PALME) were optimized for the analysis of representative aromatic amines, as alternatives to liquid-liquid extraction (LLE).

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Bacterial inactivation processes in water disinfection - mechanistic aspects of primary and secondary oxidants - A critical review.

Water Res

March 2023

Technical University of Darmstadt, Institute IWAR, Chair of environmental analytics and pollutants, Franziska-Braun-Straße 7, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany; IWW Water Centre, Moritzstraße 26, D-45476 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany; Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU), Universitätsstraße 5, D-45141 Essen, Germany. Electronic address:

Water disinfection during drinking water production is one of the most important processes to ensure safe drinking water, which is gaining even more importance due to the increasing impact of climate change. With specific reaction partners, chemical oxidants can form secondary oxidants, which can cause additional damage to bacteria. Cases in point are chlorine dioxide which forms free available chlorine (e.

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Ozonation of carbamazepine in the presence of sulfur-dopped graphene: Effect of process parameters and formation of main transformation products.

Sci Total Environ

March 2023

Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, Essen, Germany; Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU), Universitätsstraße 5, 45141 Essen, Germany; IWW Water Centre, Moritzstraße 26, 45476 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.

The stability of graphene structure in sulfur-doped graphene catalyst is demonstrated to be a key aspect during the ozonation process. Enhancing the stability of the sulfur-doped graphene structure is therefore important to improve its catalytic activity during the ozonation process. However, this has remained a challenge so far.

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Biogeochemical redox processes control the chemical behavior of many major and trace elements, making their comprehension crucial for predicting and protecting environmental health. Nitrogen (N) is especially susceptible to changes in soil redox conditions and affects the cycles of other redox-sensitive species. Elevated N concentrations, in nitrate form, in agricultural soils and associated freshwater ecosystems constitute a problem in many parts of the world.

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