A new dynamic method for the rapid determination of the biodegradable dissolved organic carbon in drinking water.

A new method for the determination of biodegradable dissolved organic carbon (BDOC), which may be useful to the water industry, is proposed. It is a dynamic method that measures the BDOC of circulating water continuously pumped across a biofilm attached to a special support that fills a system of two glass columns. The BDOC value corresponds to the difference in DOC between inlet and outlet water samples. The sampling may be intermittent or continuous, but the process is continuous. The biofilms give good performances over periods of at least 1 year. The analytical results are not significantly different from those of other bioassays based on the use of indigenous bacteria and the total duration of analysis is between 2 and 3 h.

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