Chemistry of Oxidants and Water Treatments

A book on oxidative processes in drinking water is timely, due to increased concern over toxic oxidation by-products and disinfection of certain resistant pathogens using oxidants. This book is the first to include coverage in one volume of the chemistry of all oxidants used in the disinfection, treatment, and purification of drinking water and waste-water. The nine chapters of this book provide an in-depth of the characteristics of natural and wastewater, oxidation reduction reaction and then in the last chapters goes on to address the chemistry of the main oxidants. Each chapter contains a discussion of each oxidant covers its production, analysis, reactivity, selectivity, oxidation, by-products, possible uses, and limitations. It is based on basics of organic and inorganic chemistry.