Assessment on biodegradability prediction of tannery wastewater using EPI Suite BIOWIN model

Balakrishnan, Abirami; Kanchinadham, Sri Bala Kameswari; Chitra, K. C.

doi:10.1007/s10661-020-08661-z

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“…The octanol–water partition coefficients of HQCs increased as a function of the halogen substitution degree, which indicated that HQCs were more difficult to be metabolized and excreted in organisms than quinone imines . We calculated the toxicity of HQCs using computational toxicology software EPI Suite, which was developed by the US National Environmental Protection Agency and the US Syracuse Research Corporation, and widely used for predication of toxicity. − The results indicated that HQCs were more toxic than halobenzoquinones, which were hundreds to thousands of times more toxic than the regulated DBPs. , …”

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Haloquinone Chloroimides as Toxic Disinfection Byproducts Identified in Drinking Water

Zhu

Wang

2021

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Haloquinone chloroimides (HQCs) are suspected to be highly toxic contaminants, and their production during drinking water disinfection is predicted. However, HQC disinfection byproducts (DBPs) have not been reported in drinking water to date because of analytical limitations. In this study, we developed an analytical method to detect five HQCs, including 2,6-dichloroquinone-4-chloroimide (2,6-DCQC), 2,6-dibromoquinone-4-chloroimide (2,6-DBQC), 2-chloroquinone-4-chloroimide (2-CQC), 3-chloroquinone-4-chloroimide (3-CQC), and 2,6-dichloroquinone-3-methyl-chloroimide (2,6-DCMQC). This method combined a derivatization reaction of HQCs with phenol in alkaline solutions to produce halogenated indophenols, a solid-phase extraction pretreatment using hydrophilic–lipophilic balanced (HLB) cartridges, and a multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) method for quantification. The method was demonstrated to be sensitive and accurate with recoveries of 71–85% and limits of detection of 0.1–0.2 ng/L for the five tested HQCs. Using this method, five tested HQCs were identified in drinking water samples from nine water treatment plants and water distribution systems as new DBPs at concentrations of up to 23.1 ng/L. The cytotoxicity of the five tested HQCs in HepG2 cells was higher than or comparable to that of 2,6-dichloro-1,4-benzoquinone (2,6-DCBQ), an emerging DBP that was hundreds to thousands of times more toxic than regulated DBPs. This study presents the first analytical method for HQC DBPs in drinking water and the first set of occurrence and cytotoxicity data of HQC DBPs.

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