Formation of Oxamic Acid During Drinking Water Treatment

摘要

Although oxamic acid has been identified as an ozone oxidation product from several precursor compounds, concentrations for drinking water have not been published previously. This study shows results from a full-scale drinking water treatment plant, noting that the mean concentrations for oxamic acid reached 21.3 g/L after ozonation and prior to filtration. Subsequent multiple-layer filtration removed 85 of oxamic acid on average, and mean concentrations in drinking water were 2 g/L. Up to 5.9 of the oxamic acid found in ozone-treated groundwater may be formed from Chloridazon metabolites.