Chloronitramide anion, a newly identified by-product of chloramine use in water disinfection, raises concerns due to its ...
A major goal of our work is to identify these chemicals and the reaction pathways through which they form,” said Julian ...
Chloramine is created by adding ammonia to chlorinated water. It is an engineering solution that effectively stops the formation of two classes of regulated disinfection byproducts — haloacetic acids ...
City council approved the use of chloramines as the water system disinfection method at their regular council meeting on Nov.
Scientists find chloronitramide anions form in water treated with chloramines, raising questions about the ions’ toxicity ...
The anion is formed when monochloramine–the most commonly used chloramine disinfectant–decomposes into dichloramine (NHCl 2), which then goes through a series of reactions with water ...
In the meantime, water system officials could potentially switch their disinfection practices, reverting to chlorine. But water systems that switched to chloramine often did so because they needed ...
If cost wasn't an issue, Rutland water plant chief operator Thomas Garofano said he would still prefer the city switch its disinfectant to chloramine.
A newly identified compound in tap water that had eluded scientists for decades prompts safety concerns for a third of ...
A group of chemical compounds used to disinfect water for one-third of the US population and millions of others globally ...
Some water systems decided to use chloramine -- a chemical compound formed by mixing chlorine and ammonia -- as a ...
because we keep discovering these chloramine disinfection byproducts.” “The challenge is, we don’t really know about the health impacts, because unlike the free chlorine disinfection ...