Determination of Micropollutants in Water Samples from Swimming Pool Systems

Lempart, Anna; Kudlek, Edyta; Dudziak, Mariusz

doi:10.3390/ecws-2-04946

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“…Due to the lack of reference methods for the determination of micropollutants in the swimming pool water environment, authors have developed their own procedure [7]. It enables the quantitative determination of trace contaminants with satisfactory repeatability and accuracy, which guarantees full quantitative control of selected compounds in samples from swimming pools.…”

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Identification of Micropollutants Occurring in Swimming Pools

Lempart¹,

Kudlek²,

Dudziak³

2019

Innovations-Sustainability-Modernity-Openness Conference (ISMO’19)

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The presented research assumes the implementation of experimental studies on the occurrence of organic micropollutants in the pool water environment. The main goal of this paper is to identify micropollutants in swimming pools and select the “priority substances” due to their frequency of occurrence, concentration levels and health effects. The presence of micropollutants in swimming pools showed in this research raises the question whether current methods of swimming pool water treatment provide such properties that do not pose a threat to the health of users.

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Identification of Micropollutants Occurring in Swimming Pools

Lempart¹,

Kudlek²,

Dudziak³

2019

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“…Before extraction, the bed was conditioned with methanol and acetonitrile, and then washed with deionized water. The chromatographic analysis and the sample preparation were carried out in accordance with the developed analytical procedure presented in the paper [46] 3…”

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The Source of Toxicity of Backwash Water from a Swimming Pool Filter Bed Washings

Lempart

Kudlek

Dudziak

et al. 2018

Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment

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The necessity of reducing the operating costs of swimming pools leads to attempts to reuse of backwash water from washing swimming pool filter beds. Their use for watering plants, sprinkling tennis courts and play fields, draining to nearby watercourses or even returning to swimming pool installations is taken into consideration. Current researches proved the toxicity of these waste streams. The results of these studies raise doubts about the rightness of the attempts to introduce washings from pool filters directly into the environment. The aim of the presented work is to determine the source of toxicity of filter backwash water. The assessed in the work washings were characterized by high turbidity, high content of both suspended solids and organic compounds. A decrease in value of general impurity indicators after the filtration process of washings has been shown, suggesting that the main source of toxicity may be the suspension, including various anthropogenic organic micropollutants. Although this is just a research hypothesis. For this reason, comparative studies on the occurrence of toxic organic micropollutants in raw filter backwash water, supernatant water and filtrate collected after the filtration process were carried out.

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“…The precision of determination between individual samples did not exceed 1%. Details of the developed analytical method are presented in a previous paper [11]. The identification of micropollutants was made based on their mass spectra, which were compared with the NIST 17 Mass Spectral Library.…”

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Impact of the UV Lamp Power on the Formation of Swimming pool Water Treatment By-Products

Kudlek

Lempart

Dudziak

et al. 2018

Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment

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The operation of swimming pools requires a constant monitoring of water quality parameters and protection of water against pathogens. This is implemented by various disinfection methods, among which the most commonly used are based on chlorine action supported by ozone or UV irradiation. The paper presents the comparison of the effectives of organic micropollutants decomposition occurring in swimming pool water during UV irradiation emitted by a 15 and 150 W UV lamp. The tests were conducted on real swimming pool water collected from a sport basin. The identification and the determination of micropollutants concentration were performed by the use of gas chromatography GC-MS (EI) preceded by solid-phase extraction SPE. It was shown that the concentration of micropollutants decreases with the increase in the irradiation time of pool water. The 150 W UV lamp allowed for an over 33% removal of micropollutants from the group of pharmaceuticals compounds (except for caffeine) and more than 76% decrease of other compounds, which belong to the group of personal care products additives, food additives and phthalates. In addition, it has been demonstrated that during the irradiation of such complex water matrixes as swimming pool water, a significant number of micropollutants degradation by-products were formed, which are not found in water before UV irradiation.

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Determination of Micropollutants in Water Samples from Swimming Pool Systems

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

Identification of Micropollutants Occurring in Swimming Pools

Identification of Micropollutants Occurring in Swimming Pools

The Source of Toxicity of Backwash Water from a Swimming Pool Filter Bed Washings

Impact of the UV Lamp Power on the Formation of Swimming pool Water Treatment By-Products

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