1st Edition

Characterizing Natural Organic Matter in Drinking Water Treatment Processes and Trains UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

By Saeed Abdallah Baghoth Copyright 2012
180 Pages
by CRC Press

Natural organic matter (NOM) generally significantly influences water treatment processes such as coagulation, oxidation, adsorption, and membrane filtration. In addition to aesthetic problems such as colour, taste and odour, NOM also contributes to the fouling of filtration membranes, serves as a precursor for disinfection by-products (DBPs) of health concern during disinfection/oxidation... Read more

1. Introduction
2. Characterization and influence of Natural Organic Matter (NOM) in drinking water treatment: A review
3.
Characterizing natural organic matter (NOM) in drinking water: From Source to Tap
4.
Tracking natural organic matter (NOM) in a drinking water treatment plant using fluorescence excitation−emission matrices and PARAFAC
5.
Characterizing natural organic matter (NOM) and removal trends during drinking water treatment
6.
Investigating the impact of water treatment on the fluorescence spectra of humic substances in surface and ground waters
7.
Modelling and prediction of the removal of nom and formation of trihalomethanes in drinking water treatment
8.
Summary and conclusions

Biography

Saeed Abdallah Baghoth was born in 1964 in Kamuli, Uganda. He graduated with a BSc. degree in Civil Engineering in 1989 from Makerere University, Uganda, and a MSc. degree in Sanitary Engineering in 2004 from IHE Delft (now UNESCO-IHE), The Netherlands. In November 2006, he started his PhD research at UNESCO-IHE/ Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. His research interests include natural organic matter and water treatment processes. He is currently a senior water engineer with Kamuli district local government.