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A Tale of Two Treatments: The Multiple Barrier Approach to Removing Chemical Contaminants During Potable Water Reuse

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

A computer-based prediction platform for the reaction of ozone with organic compounds in aqueous solution: kinetics and mechanisms

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

A stochastic model of an ozonation reactor

scientific article published on April 2003

Abatement of Polychoro-1,3-butadienes in Aqueous Solution by Ozone, UV Photolysis, and Advanced Oxidation Processes (O3/H2O2 and UV/H2O2).

scientific article published on 19 December 2016

Adsorption as a cause for iron isotope fractionation in reduced groundwater

scholarly article

Analysis of N-nitrosamines and other nitro(so) compounds in water by high-performance liquid chromatography with post-column UV photolysis/Griess reaction

scientific article published on 27 May 2013

Bromide Sources and Loads in Swiss Surface Waters and Their Relevance for Bromate Formation during Wastewater Ozonation

scientific article published on 15 August 2016

Carbon, Hydrogen, and Nitrogen Isotope Fractionation Trends in N-Nitrosodimethylamine Reflect the Formation Pathway during Chloramination of Tertiary Amines.

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Catalytic processes and new materials and technologies in water/wastewater treatment.

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Characterization of natural organic matter adsorption in granular activated carbon adsorbers.

scientific article

Chemical oxidation of dissolved organic matter by chlorine dioxide, chlorine, and ozone: effects on its optical and antioxidant properties

scientific article published on 16 September 2013

Chemistry. The chlorine dilemma

scientific article published in January 2011

Chlorination and bromination of olefins: Kinetic and mechanistic aspects

scientific article published on 19 September 2020

Chlorination of Phenols Revisited: Unexpected Formation of α,β-Unsaturated C4-Dicarbonyl Ring Cleavage Products

scientific article published on 06 January 2020

Chlorination of bromide-containing waters: enhanced bromate formation in the presence of synthetic metal oxides and deposits formed in drinking water distribution systems

scientific article published on 13 June 2013

Chlorination of iodide-containing waters in the presence of CuO: formation of periodate

scientific article published on 31 October 2014

Chlorothalonil transformation products in drinking water resources: Widespread and challenging to abate

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

Column studies to assess the effects of climate variables on redox processes during riverbank filtration

scientific article

Combination of UV absorbance and electron donating capacity to assess degradation of micropollutants and formation of bromate during ozonation of wastewater effluents

scientific article

Comparison of a novel extraction-based colorimetric (ABTS) method with membrane introduction mass spectrometry (MIMS): trichloramine dynamics in pool water.

scientific article published on 4 April 2014

Comparison of methylisoborneol and geosmin abatement in surface water by conventional ozonation and an electro-peroxone process

scientific article published on 4 November 2016

Comparison of the efficiency of *OH radical formation during ozonation and the advanced oxidation processes O3/H2O2 and UV/H2O2.

scientific article

Compound-specific carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen isotope analysis of N-nitrosodimethylamine in aqueous solutions.

scientific article

Degradation rates of benzotriazoles and benzothiazoles under UV-C irradiation and the advanced oxidation process UV/H2O2.

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Determinants of disinfectant pretreatment efficacy for nitrosamine control in chloraminated drinking water

scientific article

Development of Prediction Models for the Reactivity of Organic Compounds with Ozone in Aqueous Solution by Quantum Chemical Calculations: The Role of Delocalized and Localized Molecular Orbitals

scientific article published on 7 August 2015

Development of mutagenicity during degradation of N-nitrosamines by advanced oxidation processes

scientific article published on 21 August 2014

Development of surrogate correlation models to predict trace organic contaminant oxidation and microbial inactivation during ozonation.

scientific article

Differences in Viral Disinfection Mechanisms as Revealed by Quantitative Transfection of Echovirus 11 Genomes

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Differences in the chlorine reactivity of four microcystin analogues

scientific article published on 6 March 2006

Editorial to special issue in Water Research: emerging contaminants in water

scientific article published in January 2010

Effect of Ozone Treatment on Nano-Sized Silver Sulfide in Wastewater Effluent

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

Effect of cetyltrimethylammonium chloride on various Escherichia coli strains and their inactivation kinetics by ozone and monochloramine

scientific article published in 2022

Effect of dissolved organic matter on the transformation of contaminants induced by excited triplet states and the hydroxyl radical

scientific article published on 27 January 2011

Effect of operational and water quality parameters on conventional ozonation and the advanced oxidation process O3/H2O2: Kinetics of micropollutant abatement, transformation product and bromate formation in a surface water

scientific article published on 11 May 2017

Effects of Ozone on the Photochemical and Photophysical Properties of Dissolved Organic Matter

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

Efficiency and energy requirements for the transformation of organic micropollutants by ozone, O3/H2O2 and UV/H2O2.

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Efficiency of pre-oxidation of natural organic matter for the mitigation of disinfection byproducts: Electron donating capacity and UV absorbance as surrogate parameters

scientific article published on 19 September 2020

Elimination of micropollutants during post-treatment of hospital wastewater with powdered activated carbon, ozone, and UV.

scientific article published on 2 July 2013

Elimination of organic micropollutants in a municipal wastewater treatment plant upgraded with a full-scale post-ozonation followed by sand filtration

scientific article published in October 2009

Emerging risks from ballast water treatment: the run-up to the International Ballast Water Management Convention

scientific article

Enhanced Bromate Formation during Chlorination of Bromide-Containing Waters in the Presence of CuO: Catalytic Disproportionation of Hypobromous Acid ⬇️

scientific article published on September 26, 2012

Enhanced N-nitrosamine formation in pool water by UV irradiation of chlorinated secondary amines in the presence of monochloramine ⬇️

scientific article published on September 26, 2012

Enhanced bromate control during ozonation: the chlorine-ammonia process

scientific article published in October 2004

Enhanced chlorine dioxide decay in the presence of metal oxides: relevance to drinking water distribution systems

scientific article published on 19 July 2013

Enhanced transformation of aquatic organic compounds by long-lived photooxidants (LLPO) produced from dissolved organic matter

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

Enhanced transformation of sulfonamide antibiotics by manganese(IV) oxide in the presence of model humic constituents

scientific article published on 21 January 2019

Erratum to “Comparison of the efficiency of OH radical formation during ozonation and the advanced oxidation processes O3/H2O2 and UV/H2O2”

scholarly article published in Water Research

Evaluation of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant upgraded with ozonation and biological post-treatments: Abatement of micropollutants, formation of transformation products and oxidation by-products

scientific article

Evaluation of the persistence of transformation products from ozonation of trace organic compounds - a critical review

scientific article

Evolution of algal toxicity during (photo)oxidative degradation of diuron

scientific article published on 05 November 2010

Fingerprinting the reactive toxicity pathways of 50 drinking water disinfection by-products.

scientific article published on 2 January 2016

Formation and reactivity of inorganic and organic chloramines and bromamines during oxidative water treatment

scientific article published on 30 November 2016

Formation of N-Nitrosodimethylamine during Chloramination of Secondary and Tertiary Amines: Role of Molecular Oxygen and Radical Intermediates

scientific article published on 13 December 2016

Formation of N-nitrosamines by micelle-catalysed nitrosation of aliphatic secondary amines

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Formation of N-nitrosamines from chlorination and chloramination of molecular weight fractions of natural organic matter ⬇️

scientific article published on October 23, 2012

Formation of assimilable organic carbon (AOC) and specific natural organic matter (NOM) fractions during ozonation of phytoplankton

scientific article

Formation of assimilable organic carbon during oxidation of natural waters with ozone, chlorine dioxide, chlorine, permanganate, and ferrate ⬇️

scientific article published on December 9, 2010

Formation of brominated trihalomethanes during chlorination or ozonation of natural organic matter extracts and model compounds in saline water

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

Formation of iodinated organic compounds by oxidation of iodide-containing waters with manganese dioxide

scientific article published in September 2009

Generation of hydroxyl radical during chlorination of hydroxyphenols and natural organic matter extracts

scientific article published on 06 March 2020

Global Water Pollution and Human Health

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Global sensitivity analysis for model-based prediction of oxidative micropollutant transformation during drinking water treatment

scientific article

How do you like your tap water?

scientific article

Hypobromous Acid as an Unaccounted Sink for Marine Dimethyl Sulfide?

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

Implications of sequential use of UV and ozone for drinking water quality

scientific article

In-situ formation of free chlorine during ClO2 treatment: Implications on the formation of disinfection by-products

scientific article published on 09 November 2018

Inactivation efficiency of Escherichia coli and autochthonous bacteria during ozonation of municipal wastewater effluents quantified with flow cytometry and adenosine tri-phosphate analyses

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

Inactivation of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria and Resistance Genes by Ozone: From Laboratory Experiments to Full-Scale Wastewater Treatment

scientific article published on 24 October 2016

Inputs of disinfection by-products to the marine environment from various industrial activities: Comparison to natural production

scientific article published on 01 April 2022

Interactions of fluoroquinolone antibacterial agents with aqueous chlorine: reaction kinetics, mechanisms, and transformation pathways

scientific article

Iodate and iodo-trihalomethane formation during chlorination of iodide-containing waters: role of bromide

scientific article

Kinetic and Mechanistic Aspects of the Reactions of Iodide and Hypoiodous Acid with Permanganate: Oxidation and Disproportionation

scientific article published on 22 March 2016

Kinetic and mechanistic aspects of selenite oxidation by chlorine, bromine, monochloramine, ozone, permanganate, and hydrogen peroxide

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

Kinetic and mechanistic investigations of the oxidation of tramadol by ferrate and ozone

scientific article published on 21 December 2011

Kinetic assessment and modeling of an ozonation step for full-scale municipal wastewater treatment: micropollutant oxidation, by-product formation and disinfection

scientific article published on 5 August 2010

Kinetics and mechanisms of N-nitrosodimethylamine formation upon ozonation of N,N-dimethylsulfamide-containing waters: bromide catalysis

scientific article published on August 2010

Kinetics and mechanisms of formation of bromophenols during drinking water chlorination: assessment of taste and odor development.

scientific article published in August 2005

Kinetics and mechanisms of nitrate and ammonium formation during ozonation of dissolved organic nitrogen

scientific article published on 8 October 2016

Kinetics of Inactivation of Waterborne Enteric Viruses by Ozone.

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Kinetics of membrane damage to high (HNA) and low (LNA) nucleic acid bacterial clusters in drinking water by ozone, chlorine, chlorine dioxide, monochloramine, ferrate(VI), and permanganate ⬇️

scientific article published on November 18, 2010

Kinetics of the oxidation of phenols and phenolic endocrine disruptors during water treatment with ferrate (Fe(VI)).

scientific article published in November 2005

Kinetics of the reaction between hydrogen peroxide and aqueous iodine: Implications for technical and natural aquatic systems

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

Kinetics of triclosan oxidation by aqueous ozone and consequent loss of antibacterial activity: relevance to municipal wastewater ozonation

scientific article

Laser flash photolysis study of the photoinduced oxidation of 4-(dimethylamino)benzonitrile (DMABN)

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Measurement of the initial phase of ozone decomposition in water and wastewater by means of a continuous quench-flow system: application to disinfection and pharmaceutical oxidation

scientific article

Mechanistic Aspects of the Formation of Adsorbable Organic Bromine during Chlorination of Bromide-containing Synthetic Waters

scientific article

Mechanistic Study on the Formation of Cl-/Br-/I-Trihalomethanes during Chlorination/Chloramination Combined with a Theoretical Cytotoxicity Evaluation

scientific article published on 17 August 2015

Mechanistic and kinetic evaluation of organic disinfection by-product and assimilable organic carbon (AOC) formation during the ozonation of drinking water

scientific article

Micropollutant Oxidation Studied by Quantum Chemical Computations: Methodology and Applications to Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Reaction Mechanisms

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

Modeling Cryptosporidium parvum oocyst inactivation and bromate in a flow-through ozone contactor treating natural water

scientific article

Molecular mechanism of NDMA formation from N,N-dimethylsulfamide during ozonation: quantum chemical insights into a bromide-catalyzed pathway.

scientific article

Molecular-level transformation of dissolved organic matter during oxidation by ozone and hydroxyl radical

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

NOM degradation during river infiltration: effects of the climate variables temperature and discharge

scientific article

Nitrate formation during ozonation as a surrogate parameter for abatement of micropollutants and the N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) formation potential.

scientific article

Non-target screening to trace ozonation transformation products in a wastewater treatment train including different post-treatments

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Novel test procedure to evaluate the treatability of wastewater with ozone

scientific article

Occurrence of dissolved and particle-bound taste and odor compounds in Swiss lake waters

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Options and limitations for bromate control during ozonation of wastewater

scientific article published on 14 February 2017

Organic Contaminant Abatement in Reclaimed Water by UV/H2O2 and a Combined Process Consisting of O3/H2O2 Followed by UV/H2O2: Prediction of Abatement Efficiency, Energy Consumption, and Byproduct Formation

scientific article

Oxidation Processes in Water Treatment: Are We on Track?

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Oxidation of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) precursors with ozone and chlorine dioxide: kinetics and effect on NDMA formation potential

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Oxidation of antibacterial compounds by ozone and hydroxyl radical: elimination of biological activity during aqueous ozonation processes.

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Oxidation of cetirizine, fexofenadine and hydrochlorothiazide during ozonation: Kinetics and formation of transformation products

scientific article

Oxidation of iodide and iodine on birnessite (delta-MnO2) in the pH range 4-8.

scientific article published on 20 May 2009

Oxidation of pharmaceuticals during ozonation and advanced oxidation processes

scientific article published in March 2003

Oxidation of pharmaceuticals during ozonation of municipal wastewater effluents: a pilot study

scientific article published in June 2005

Oxidation of pharmaceuticals during water treatment with chlorine dioxide

scientific article published in September 2005

Oxidative elimination of cyanotoxins: comparison of ozone, chlorine, chlorine dioxide and permanganate.

scientific article published on 20 June 2007

Oxidative transformation of micropollutants during municipal wastewater treatment: comparison of kinetic aspects of selective (chlorine, chlorine dioxide, ferrate VI, and ozone) and non-selective oxidants (hydroxyl radical).

scientific article published on 27 November 2009

Oxidative treatment of bromide-containing waters: formation of bromine and its reactions with inorganic and organic compounds--a critical review

scientific article published on 04 September 2013

Ozonation of Para-Substituted Phenolic Compounds Yields p-Benzoquinones, Other Cyclic α,β-Unsaturated Ketones, and Substituted Catechols

scientific article published on 21 March 2018

Ozonation of carbamazepine in drinking water: identification and kinetic study of major oxidation products

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Ozonation of drinking water: part I. Oxidation kinetics and product formation

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Ozonation of drinking water: part II. Disinfection and by-product formation in presence of bromide, iodide or chlorine

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Ozonation of municipal wastewater effluent containing metal sulfides and metal complexes: Kinetics and mechanisms

scientific article published on 6 February 2018

Ozonation of reverse osmosis concentrate: kinetics and efficiency of beta blocker oxidation

scientific article published on 4 April 2008

Ozonation of source-separated urine for resource recovery and waste minimization: process modeling, reaction chemistry, and operational considerations

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Ozone and chlorine reactions with dissolved organic matter - Assessment of oxidant-reactive moieties by optical measurements and the electron donating capacities

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

Peracetic acid oxidation of saline waters in the absence and presence of H ₂O ₂: secondary oxidant and disinfection byproduct formation

scientific article

Permeability of low molecular weight organics through nanofiltration membranes

scientific article published on 24 May 2007

Persulfate-Based Advanced Oxidation: Critical Assessment of Opportunities and Roadblocks

scientific article published on 27 February 2020

Phenols and amine induced HO* generation during the initial phase of natural water ozonation

scientific article

Photolysis of inorganic chloramines and efficiency of trichloramine abatement by UV treatment of swimming pool water.

scientific article published on 26 February 2014

Photosensitizer method to determine rate constants for the reaction of carbonate radical with organic compounds

scientific article published in December 2005

Photosensitizing and Inhibitory Effects of Ozonated Dissolved Organic Matter on Triplet-Induced Contaminant Transformation.

scientific article published on 10 July 2015

Phototransformation of selected pharmaceuticals during UV treatment of drinking water

scientific article published on 26 July 2007

Prediction of micropollutant elimination during ozonation of a hospital wastewater effluent

scientific article published on 27 June 2014

Prediction of micropollutant elimination during ozonation of municipal wastewater effluents: use of kinetic and water specific information

scientific article published on 23 May 2013

Probing the photosensitizing and inhibitory effects of dissolved organic matter by using N,N-dimethyl-4-cyanoaniline (DMABN).

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

Proxies to monitor the inactivation of viruses by ozone in surface water and wastewater effluent

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

Quantification and characterization of dissolved organic nitrogen in wastewater effluents by electrodialysis treatment followed by size-exclusion chromatography with nitrogen detection

scientific article published on 20 June 2013

Quantification of Total N-Nitrosamine Concentrations in Aqueous Samples via UV-Photolysis and Chemiluminescence Detection of Nitric Oxide

scientific article published on 19 December 2016

Quantification of the electron donating capacity and UV absorbance of dissolved organic matter during ozonation of secondary wastewater effluent by an assay and an automated analyzer

scientific article published on 26 July 2020

Quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) for the transformation of organic micropollutants during oxidative water treatment.

scientific article published on 16 June 2012

Quenching of an Aniline Radical Cation by Dissolved Organic Matter and Phenols: A Laser Flash Photolysis Study

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

REMOVAL OF PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS: RESULTS OF THE POSEIDON PROJECT

Reaction of bromine and chlorine with phenolic compounds and natural organic matter extracts--Electrophilic aromatic substitution and oxidation.

scientific article published on 2 September 2015

Reaction of ferrate(VI) with ABTS and self-decay of ferrate(VI): kinetics and mechanisms

scientific article published on 21 April 2014

Reactions of Ferrate(VI) with Iodide and Hypoiodous Acid: Kinetics, Pathways, and Implications for the Fate of Iodine during Water Treatment

scientific article published on 15 June 2018

Reactions of aliphatic amines with ozone: Kinetics and mechanisms

scientific article published on 29 March 2019

Reactions of chlorine with inorganic and organic compounds during water treatment-Kinetics and mechanisms: a critical review

scientific article published on 26 July 2007

Reactions of hypoiodous acid with model compounds and the formation of iodoform in absence/presence of permanganate.

scientific article published on 13 April 2017

Removal of estrogenic activity and formation of oxidation products during ozonation of 17alpha-ethinylestradiol

scientific article published in October 2004

Removal of the antiviral agent oseltamivir and its biological activity by oxidative processes ⬇️

scientific article published on October 24, 2011

Sample Enrichment for Bioanalytical Assessment of Disinfected Drinking Water: Concentrating the Polar, the Volatiles, and the Unknowns.

scientific article published on 6 May 2016

Specific and total N-nitrosamines formation potentials of nitrogenous micropollutants during chloramination.

scientific article published on 10 February 2018

Spectrophotometric determination of ferrate (Fe(VI)) in water by ABTS.

scientific article published in May 2005

Sunlight-induced transformation of sulfadiazine and sulfamethoxazole in surface waters and wastewater effluents

scientific article published on 20 March 2014

The challenge of micropollutants in aquatic systems

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Trade-Offs in Disinfection Byproduct Formation Associated with Precursor Preoxidation for Control of N-Nitrosodimethylamine Formation ⬇️

scientific article published on April 12, 2012

Transformation of 17alpha-ethinylestradiol during water chlorination: effects of bromide on kinetics, products, and transformation pathways

scientific article published in January 2009

Transformation of Contaminant Candidate List (CCL3) compounds during ozonation and advanced oxidation processes in drinking water: Assessment of biological effects

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Transformation of beta-lactam antibacterial agents during aqueous ozonation: reaction pathways and quantitative bioassay of biologically-active oxidation products

scientific article published in August 2010

Trichloramine reactions with nitrogenous and carbonaceous compounds: kinetics, products and chloroform formation

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Trihalomethane formation by chlorination of ammonium- and bromide-containing groundwater in water supplies of Hanoi, Vietnam

scientific article published in July 2003

Trihalomethane formation during water disinfection in four water supplies in the Somes river basin in Romania

scientific article published on 14 February 2009

Two analytical approaches quantifying the electron donating capacities of dissolved organic matter to monitor its oxidation during chlorination and ozonation

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

UV/H2O2 advanced oxidation for abatement of organophosphorous pesticides and the effects on various toxicity screening assays

scientific article published on 2 May 2017

Uncertainty in prediction of disinfection performance

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