Awareness of water as a scarce resource has changed the general approach when treating wastewater. The goal now is not just about getting a more or less purified water that can be poured into a natural channel, but use those waters for other uses directly, ie reuse. Although current legislation sets certain quality requirements depending on the application, these do not include the presence of organic micropollutants as a quality criterion. However, the presence of these substances can be a long term risk of unknown consequences. Thus, it is necessary to establish the efficiency of the new water treatment strategies in eliminating these potential pollutants. This requires the application of advanced analytical techniques for establishing the removal rate of pollutants during the treatments and evaluates the formation of new transformation products. This paper describes the application of LC-QTRAP-MS/MS and LC-QTOF-MS/MS techniques to practical examples of different treatments. The advantages and limitations of these techniques are discussed

Evaluation of organic micropollutants in water regeneration processes

245th National Meeting (2013)

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