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Project #55

Taste and Odor in Drinking Water Supplies--Phase I & II

$185,000
Completed
Principal Investigator
Mel
Suffet
Research Manager
Mr. Jon G DeBoer
Contractor
Drexel University
Taste & Odor
Constituents of Emerging Concern (CECs)
Treatment
Advanced Treatment
Final Report

Abstract

Identifies specific compounds and groups of compounds that produce tastes and odors in drinking water using a new sensory panel flavor profile analysis coupled with GC - MS analysis. Develops correlations between flavor profile analysis and instrument analysis of taste- and odor-producing compounds. Clearly details the practical application of the flavor profile analysis technique using odor reference standards and cross-panel comparisons. Published in 1989.

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