Water Contamination Emergencies: Managing the Threats
Online Monitoring of Drinking Water with Optical Spectroscopy
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Published:01 Jul 2013
C. Jaehn, M. Wagner, W. Schmidt, C. Moldaenke, 2013. "Online Monitoring of Drinking Water with Optical Spectroscopy", Water Contamination Emergencies: Managing the Threats, Ulrich Borchers, John Gray, K Clive Thompson, K Clive Thompson, Ulrich Borchers, John Gray
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The absence of contamination in drinking water is essential to protect public health. Online monitoring is a promising strategy to ensure a good drinking water quality. Online analysis techniques mainly cover physico‐chemical parameters e.g. pH‐value and turbidity. In comparison, the online detection of single contaminants is quite difficult and costly. A promising alternative is the rapid detection of abnormalities or changes in the water matrix by spectroscopic techniques such as absorbance or fluorescence (emission) spectroscopy.
