Using donors per million of population to compare countries for the efficiency of their deceased donation systems may be less informative than a new methodology based on age‐standardized deaths per millions. See also article by Cuende et al in this issue on page 1526.
In the present study, the fate of trivalent chromium (Cr(III)) during ozonation of ultrapurified water and wastewater effluent was investigated. In experiments conducted in phosphate buffered ultrapurified water, O 3 alone in excess was inefficient to oxidize Cr(III) (only about 10-15 % of total Cr(III) content), while in presence of the secondary oxidant, OH radical, almost all Cr(III) was oxidized to hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)). In a wastewater effluent, spiked with Cr(III), only about 10 to 20% of Cr(III) was oxidized with specific ozone doses in the range 0.15 to 1.5 gO 3 /gDOC, although O 3 and OH radical were both available for reaction. Cr(VI) formation was monitored in parallel with the abatement of some common micropollutants, reacting with differing apparent second order rate constants with ozone, decreasing in the order carbamazepine>> benzotriazole> atrazine> pCBA. Carbamazepine and benzotriazole were abated to > 80% for specific O 3 doses of 0.3 gO 3 /gDOC, and 0.8 gO 3 /gDOC, respectively. The more ozone-resistant compounds (atrazine and pCBA) required a specific ozone dose of about 1.25 gO 3 /gDOC for the same relative abatement. At this specific ozone dose (i.e., 1.25 gO 3 /gDOC) only about 20% of Cr(III) was oxidized to Cr(VI), whereas, only 10% of Cr(III) was oxidized to Cr(VI) at a more realistic specific ozone dose for enhanced wastewater treatment for micropollutant abatement (0.5 gO 3 /gDOC). Therefore, for typical Cr(III) levels in municipal wastewaters, effluent ozonation only leads to toxicologically insignificant Cr(VI) concentrations.
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