Fluorescence Techniques in Detection of Organics in Water

Abstract

The fundamental objective of the authors' continuing research in this area is to increase our understanding of the chemical structures of natural product organic molecules responsible for color in natural water and the mechanism of their interaction with salts of Al3+ and Fe3+. Previous research has resulted in the isolation and identification of seven aromatic oxidation products of the parent color producing macromolecules. In this paper the research results of interaction studies using model flavonoid compounds and controlled concentrations of coagulant metal ions, alkalinity, and ionic strength are presented.

In situ fluorescence measurements of dissolved organic matter: A review

“…The increase of global economy and population, together with the effects of climate change put a great stress on water resources, increasing the number and quantity of pollutants and threatening to destabilise natural dissolved organic matter (DOM) cycles and composition (Kellerman et al, 2014;Lipczynska-Kochany, 2018;Pagano et al, 2014). Five decades of research have shown that fluorescence spectroscopy has the potential to characterise aquatic DOM, from natural or anthropogenic sources (Christman and Arnquist, 1969;Hu et al, 2017;Hudson et al, 2007;Jiang et al, 2017;Laane, 1982;Smart et al, 1976). It has been extensively used for cost-effective, reagentless and reliable measurement of water quality from various environments Chen et al, 2015;Chong et al, 2013;Mihalevich et al, 2017;Pesant et al, 2015).…”