PHYSICAL CHARACTERISATION OF NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER AND DETERMINATION OFn DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCT FORMATION POTENTIALS IN ISTANBUL SURFACE WATERS

摘要

Natural organic matter (NOM) is a complex mixture of various organic molecules mainly originating from aquatic organisms, soil and terrestrial vegetation which enters surface and ground waters. Through the different reaction reactivity of the NOM components with disinfectants, isolation and fractionation of NOM into more homogenous components is the better way of determining the DBP formation potential of the waters. Within the aim and scope of this paper, raw water samples were taken from Buyuk