title: Pollutants in drinking water and waste water.
abstract: Extracts of drinking water and effluents from municipal and industrial sewage treatment plants were analysed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and by high-performance liquid chromatography combined with ultraviolet and/or mass spectrometric detection. After column chromatography or flow-injection analysis bypassing the analytical column, ionization was performed by a thermospray interface. Identification of the pollutants was carried out by tandem mass spectrometry, generating daughter-ion spectra by collision-induced dissociation. Most pollutants in drinking water and in the effluents of waste water treatment plants are surface-active compounds of anthropogenic origin or their biochemical degradation products. Difficulties encountered during separation, detection and identification are presented and discussed and techniques for solving these problems are proposed.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Siedlungswasserwirtschaft, Technical University of Aachen, Germany.
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Schröder
mesh_terms: D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid; D005410:Flame Ionization; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D012722:Sewage; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D014873:Water Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D014881:Water Supply
chemical_list: D012722:Sewage; D014873:Water Pollutants