The Influence of Total Hardness on Chlorine Decay in Water Distribution Systems

Abstract:

Free chlorine decay is a main issue in drinking water treatment since free chlorine concentration is a common indicator in drinking water security. The current view of free chlorine decay is that the process is mainly affected by the natural organic matter in water, temperature and initial chlorine concentration, on which temperature has the most evidently effect. As is generally accepted, total hardness has no effect on it. This paper investigated the impact of water hardness on the chlorine decay. The influence of varying metal ions concentrations which contribute to water hardness on effective chlorine decay constants was assessed. The results implied that total hardness had an evidently influences on the chlorine decay in tap water or DI water. For the range of metal ions concentration in this experiment effective chlorine decay constants ranged from an increase by +182% to +349% from the different concentration of metal ions.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 535)
• Pages: 776-784
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.535.776
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Jing Qing Liu*, Wei Jiang, Jian Min Wu, Cong Li
• Keywords: Calcium, Chlorine Decay, Drinking Water, Ferric, Magnesium, Manganese, Total Hardness

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