Figure 3

A and B Correlation of UV-AM results with LC-UV and GC-MS/MS analyses. A) Shown is SMX biodegradation in R2A-UV media with two different MLSS concentrations (2.0 and 3.5 g L^-1 MLSS). Initial SMX concentration 10 mg L^-1. Dotted lines show the measured SMX biodegradation detected with UV-AM, columns represent SMX concentration measured with LC-UV. B) The same is shown for 5-TTri (initial concentration 10 mg L^-1, measured with GC-MS/MS) biodegradation with initial MLSS concentration of 0.5 g L^-1. Shown are mean values of duplicate experiments with error bars indicating standard deviations (n = 2) (only for UV-AM).