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Table 3.3. Summary of correlations found between fluorescence peak intensities of sewage
and wastewaters and common biochemical and chemical parameters

Samples Correlation (peak/parameter/Pearson's

r unless stated)

References

Raw settled/treated sewage
from three different treatment
works ( n = 129)

T 1 BOD 5 0.960

0.970
0.960

Reynolds and Ahmad
( 1997 )

Raw settled/treated sewage
( n = 25)

T 1 -T 2 BOD 5 0.980 Ahmad and Reynolds

( 1999 )

Synthetic sewage treated via a
rotating bio-disc contactor
( n = 45)
F Total = Total fluorescence
intensity
Settled and treated sewage
samples over a 3 month
period ( n = 56)
F Total = Total fluorescence
intensity

F Total
T 1
F Total -T 1
F Total
T 1
F Total -T 1

BOD 5
COD
TOC
BOD 5
COD
TOC
COD-BOD
BOD 5
COD
TOC
BOD 5
COD
TOC
COD-BOD

0.890
0.920
0.910
0.980
0.980
0.980
0.840
0.790
0.820
0.800
0.930
0.940
0.930
0.710

Reynolds ( 2002 )

Filtered raw sewage T 1 COD

TOC
N k
NH 4 -N
COD
TOC
N k
NH 4 -N

0.420
0.410
0.690
0.650
0.560 a
0.530 a
0.760 a
0.840 a

Vasel and Praet ( 2002 )

Treated effluent samples
(over a 3-month period)

T 1 COD 0.900 Lee and Ahn ( 2004 )

Wastewater samples (96 in total)
using COD Dissolved values

T 1 COD Dissolved.

COD

0.370
0.510

Wu et al. ( 2006 )

Sewage effluents ( n = 16) C 1 DOC 0.140 Cumberland and Baker

( 2007 )

Wastewater effluents (223
samples - sewage, trade,
and pollution incidents)

T 1
T 2
C 2
A

BOD 5
TOC
BOD 5
TOC
BOD 5
TOC
BOD 5
TOC

0.906 b
0.876 b
0.848 b
0.802 b
0.771 b
0.870 b
0.720 b
0.808 b

Hudson et al. ( 2008 )

a Partial least squares where n = 20.
b Spearman's p .