[Concentration Variation and Removal of Amino Acids in Typical Drinking Sources in the South of China]

Amino acids are the main components of nitrogenous organic matter in surface water. In order to reveal the concentration variation and removal of amino acids in reservoirs water, the concentration variation of the twenty common amino acids for three main reservoirs' water in a typical southern city of China was monitored between May and October in the year of 2015 by HPLC, and the space distribution and change trend of the twenty amino acids were analyzed. In addition, the removal of the twenty amino acids was also studied by different water treatment processes. The results showed that the amino acids contents and composition were different among the three reservoirs. Aspartic acid, cysteine and leucine were the main amino acids for the three reservoirs. Besides, there was no obvious seasonal variation of amino acids content for reservoir C. However, the concentration of amino acids in autumn was higher than that in summer. Coagulation and sedimentation were main units for the removal of amino acids in conventional and BAC-UF processes while O₃ oxidation was the main unit in O₃-BAC process. 94.42%, 66.04% and 49.75% of total amino acids contents were removed by the conventional, BAC-UF and O₃-BAC processes, respectively.