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Chlorination is the most simple tool for disinfection in drinking water process. Due to the pollution of raw water, which contains high organic substance, may react with chlorine and form so-called disinfection by-products (DBPs). One of the most popular DBPs: Trihalomethane, is confirmed as cancengenic substance since 1974. The precursors of DBPs normally be identified as: humic or fulvic acids. The potential technique may obtain seven categories of either hydrophilic or hydrophobic contents in raw water. In this study, we attempt to apply three resins: XAD-8, AG-MP-50 and IRA-93 to classify different species of NOM from raw water taken from Te-Chi reservoir, which suffered from the excess farm cultivation and soil erosion. After obtaining different species NOM; we will utilize Sephadex gel to identify its MWD and select target size to cutoff by either ultrafilter (UF) or nanofilter (NF) technique. The items to examine the efficient of DBPs reduction are: DOC, UV absorbance, THMFP (formation potential), HAAFP, AOXFP.The result shows that hydrophobic substances predominate in the raw water ( about 58 %), especially hydrophobic neutrals (about 29 %). Hydrophobic substances also has the highest DBPs formation potential, THMFP/DOC, AOXFP/DOC can be reach to 16.48 and 137.32 ug/mg.With the molecular weight distribution for various species organics, for example: DOC of humic acids distributed over the range of several thousand daltons, and the DBPs mainly formed between 5,000~1,000 daltons, it*s because humic acids has more aromatic compounds and gets higher average molecular weight; Generally speaking, DBPs formation is related to molecular weight distribution of the organics.Membrane filtration can be an affective technology to reduce DBPs formation, with the <500 daltons filtered, the reduction of DBPs can be reached to 70 %, but hydrophobic neutrals is worse( about 50~60 %). To get the better removal rate of DBPs, the lower molecular weight cutoff should be used. According to the results, membrane filtration can removal the DBPs precursor in raw water directly, and reduce the DBPs formation.
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