Alfred D. Thruston

TL;DR: A survey of disinfection byproduct (DBP) occurrence in the United States was conducted at 12 drinking water treatment plants to obtain quantitative occurrence information for new DBPs (beyond those currently regulated and/or studied) for prioritizing future health effects studies.

TL;DR: IA is the most toxic and genotoxic DBP in mammalian cells reported in the literature, and data suggest that chloraminated drinking waters that have high bromide and iodide source waters may contain these iodoacids and most likely other iodo-DBPs.

TL;DR: This study represents the first comprehensive investigation of DBPs formed by chlorine dioxide under high bromide conditions, and shows that fulvic acid plays a greater role in the formation of THMs, haloacetic acids, and aldehydes, but 2,3,5-tribromopyrrole was produced primarily from humic acid.

TL;DR: Using a combination of spectral identification techniques gas chromatography coupled with low and high-resolution electron-impact mass spectrometry (GC/EI-MS), low- and high resolution chemical ionization mass spectrum analysis (GC-CI-MS) and infrared spectroscopy (GC, IR), this paper identified many drinking water disinfection byproducts (DBPs) formed by ozone and combinations of ozone with chlorine and chloramine.

TL;DR: In this article, a compilation of the last 8 years of our research in identifying new disinfection by-products (DBPs) from ozone, chlorine dioxide, chloramine, and chlorine was presented.