This handbook describes the application, design, operation, control, and optimization of ozone facilities in drinking water treatment plants. 　　The book is intended for use by 　　--Large and small water utilities that currently use ozone. The book is a resource for optimizing ozone performance in existing installations. 　　--Large and small water utilities that are considering ozone as a treatment process option. The book explains why and how ozone is currently being used and includes precautions. 　　--Design engineers who are involved with ozone system planning and design. The book presents important design, operation, and maintenance considerations. 　　--Laboratories and researchers that are involved with bench- or pilot-testing. The book describes how ozone is used in full-scale installations and describes scale-up issues. 　　--Regulatory agencies responsible for enforcement, design review, and inspections of plants that use ozone. The book explains the theory and practice of ozone operation and how ozone disinfection performance is measured, calculated, reported, and optimized.

　　Even though ozone has been applied for a long time for disinfection and oxidation in water treatment, there is lack of critical information related to transformation of organic compounds. This has become more important in recent years, because there is considerable concern about the formation of potentially harmful degradation products as well as oxidation products from the reaction with the matrix components. In recent years, a wealth of information on the products that are formed has accumulated, and substantial progress in understanding mechanistic details of ozone reactions in aqueous solution has been made. Chemistry of Ozone in Water and Wastewater Treatment: From Basic Principles to Applications discusses mechanistic details of ozone reactions as much as they are known to date and applies them to the large body of studies on micropollutant degradation (such as pharmaceuticals and endocrine disruptors) that is already available. Extensively quoting the literature and updating the available compilation of ozone rate constants gives the reader a text at hand on which his research can be based.