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1 Introduction
The concentration of hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) in natural waters has been
determined for the first time in 1925 by Harvey (Harvey 1925), who studied
inshore and offshore water from the English Channel. The concentration of H 2 O 2
has been determined in seawater in the 1970’s (van Baalen and Marler 1966) and
in some Russian freshwaters in the 1980’s (Sinel’nikov 1971; Sinel’nikov and
Demina 1974). In the same period the occurrence and concentration of H 2 O 2 was
being studied in air (Penkett et al. 1979; Lazrus et al. 1986; Sakugawa and Kaplan
1987), rain and cloud water, freshwater and coastal and open ocean waters (Cooper
and Zika 1983; Draper and Crosby 1983; Helz and Kieber 1985; Lazrus et al. 1985;
Photoinduced and Microbial Generation
of Hydrogen Peroxide and Organic
Peroxides in Natural Waters
K. M. G. Mostofa et al. (eds.), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter,
Environmental Science and Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32223-5_2,
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Khan M. G. Mostofa, Cong-qiang Liu, Hiroshi Sakugawa, Davide Vione,
Daisuke Minakata and Fengchang Wu
K. M. G. Mostofa (*) · C. Q. Liu
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550002, China
e-mail: mostofa@vip.gyig.ac.cn
H. Sakugawa
Department of Environmental Dynamics and Management,
Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1, Kagamiyama,
Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521, Japan
D. Vione
Dipartimento Chim Analit, University Turin, I-10125 Turin, Italy
Centro Interdipartimentale NatRisk, I-10095 Grugliasco, (TO), Italy
D. Minakata
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems,
Georgia Institute of Technology, 828 West Peachtree Street, Suite 320, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
F. C. Wu
State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Lake Pollution Control,
Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Chaoyang 100012, China
1 Introduction
The concentration of hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) in natural waters has been
determined for the first time in 1925 by Harvey (Harvey 1925), who studied
inshore and offshore water from the English Channel. The concentration of H 2 O 2
has been determined in seawater in the 1970’s (van Baalen and Marler 1966) and
in some Russian freshwaters in the 1980’s (Sinel’nikov 1971; Sinel’nikov and
Demina 1974). In the same period the occurrence and concentration of H 2 O 2 was
being studied in air (Penkett et al. 1979; Lazrus et al. 1986; Sakugawa and Kaplan
1987), rain and cloud water, freshwater and coastal and open ocean waters (Cooper
and Zika 1983; Draper and Crosby 1983; Helz and Kieber 1985; Lazrus et al. 1985;
Photoinduced and Microbial Generation
of Hydrogen Peroxide and Organic
Peroxides in Natural Waters
K. M. G. Mostofa et al. (eds.), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter,
Environmental Science and Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32223-5_2,
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Khan M. G. Mostofa, Cong-qiang Liu, Hiroshi Sakugawa, Davide Vione,
Daisuke Minakata and Fengchang Wu
K. M. G. Mostofa (*) · C. Q. Liu
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550002, China
e-mail: mostofa@vip.gyig.ac.cn
H. Sakugawa
Department of Environmental Dynamics and Management,
Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1, Kagamiyama,
Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521, Japan
D. Vione
Dipartimento Chim Analit, University Turin, I-10125 Turin, Italy
Centro Interdipartimentale NatRisk, I-10095 Grugliasco, (TO), Italy
D. Minakata
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems,
Georgia Institute of Technology, 828 West Peachtree Street, Suite 320, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
F. C. Wu
State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Lake Pollution Control,
Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Chaoyang 100012, China