Water Treatment and Disinfection
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As oxidative processes are increasingly employed for the removal of trace substances in advanced wastewater treatment, as required by, among others, by the EU urban Wastewater treatment directive, disinfection by-products, particularly bromate are becoming increasingly important. This study presents a comprehensive intra- and interlaboratory evaluation of four ion chromatography (IC) based methods for determination of bromate in wastewater: conductivity detection (IC-CD), post-column reaction with UV/Vis detection (IC-PCR-UV/Vis), high-resolution mass spectrometry (IC-ESI-HRMS), and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (IC-ICP-MS). Performance parameters were assessed in ultrapure water and verified across different wastewater matrices, including influent, secondary clarifier effluent, and final effluent of a municipal wastewater treatment plant. IC-CD achieved a LOQ of 1.4 µg/L in ultrapure water but exhibited strong matrix dependency in untreated wastewater. In treated wastewater, the verified LOQs were sufficiently low to allow quantification below the regulated drinking water limit (10 µg/L). IC-PCR-UV/Vis and IC-ICP-MS demonstrated robust performance across all investigated matrices, with a LOQ of 1.0 µg/L and consistently reliable precision (<5%) and recoveries (90–110%), making these methods suitable for both treated and untreated wastewater. IC-ESI-HRMS provided the lowest LOQ (0.07 µg/L) though requiring dilution in untreated wastewaters due to matrix effects. Interlaboratory validation confirmed that IC-CD is only suitable for treated wastewater, whereas IC-PCR-UV/Vis is broadly applicable across treated and untreated wastewaters. Overall, IC-PCR-UV/Vis represents the most practical method for routine bromate monitoring in wastewaters. Mass spectrometry-based approaches demonstrated enhanced selectivity and lower LODs, while enabling multi- analyte analysis, albeit with higher instrumental complexity. However, their broader applicability for routine wastewater monitoring requires further interlaboratory evaluation.
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@article{Wilke2026Evaluation,
title = {Evaluation of Ion Chromatography Methods for Bromate Determination in Wastewaters},
author = {Carlotta L. E. D. Wilke and Reiner Gschwendtner and Volker Linnemann},
journal = {Journal of Chromatography A},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1016/j.chroma.2026.467329},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2026.467329}
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