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In this study, synchronous fluorescence spectra and its first derivatives were investigated using a number of wastewater samples collected in sewer systems in urban and non-urban areas, and the optimum fluorescence feature was explored for the estimation of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentrations of sewer samples. The temporal variations in BOD and COD showed a regular pattern for urban areas whereas they were relatively irregular for non-urban areas. Irrespective of the sewer pipes and the types of the areas, two distinct peaks were identified from the synchronous fluorescence spectra, which correspond to protein-like fluorescence (PLF) and humic-like fluorescence (HLF), respectively. HLF in sewer samples appears to be associated with fluorescent whitening agents. Five fluorescence characteristics were selected from the synchronous spectra and the first-derivatives. Among the selected fluorescence indices, a peak in the PLF region (i.e., Index I) showed the highest correlation coefficient with both BOD and COD. A multiple regression approach based on suspended solid (SS) and Index I used to compensate for the contribution of SS to BOD and COD revealed an improvement in the estimation capability, showing good correlation coefficients of 0.92 and 0.94 for BOD and COD, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s100402460","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,3,24]],"date-time":"2010-03-24T12:14:57Z","timestamp":1269432897000},"page":"2460-2471","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":78,"title":["Estimation of Biological Oxygen Demand and Chemical Oxygen Demand for Combined Sewer Systems Using Synchronous Fluorescence Spectra"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Jin","family":"Hur","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sejong University, 98 Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, 143-747, Korea"}]},{"given":"Bo-Mi","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sejong University, 98 Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, 143-747, Korea"}]},{"given":"Tae-Hwan","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sejong University, 98 Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, 143-747, Korea"}]},{"given":"Dae-Hee","family":"Park","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Locus Solution Co., Ltd., DMC High-Tech Center, Seoul, 121-270, Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,3,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3539","DOI":"10.1016\/j.watres.2008.05.006","article-title":"Quantification and relative comparison of different types of uncertainties in sewer water quality modeling","volume":"42","author":"Willems","year":"2008","journal-title":"Water Res"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4096","DOI":"10.1021\/es052553l","article-title":"Combined sewer overflows to surface waters detected by the anthropogenic marker caffeine","volume":"40","author":"Buerge","year":"2006","journal-title":"Environ. 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