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The design of stripping columns includes the determination, among other factors, of the height (HOG), the theoretical number of plates (NOG), and the section (S) of the columns based on the study of pressure drop. These results have been compared with THM stripping literature values, showing that simulation is sufficiently conservative. Three case studies were chosen to apply the developed software. The first case study was representative of small-scale application to a community in C\u00f3rdoba (Spain) where chloroform is predominant and has a low concentration. The second case study was of an intermediate scale in a region in Venezuela, and the third case study was representative of large-scale treatment of water in the Barcelona metropolitan region (Spain). Results showed that case studies with larger scale and higher initial risk offer the best capital investment to decrease the risk.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/toxics6010018","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,20]],"date-time":"2018-03-20T15:59:39Z","timestamp":1521561579000},"page":"18","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Design of Stripping Columns Applied to Drinking Water to Minimize Carcinogenic Risk from Trihalomethanes (THMs)"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Joel","family":"Canosa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, Escola d\u2019Enginyeria de Barcelona Est (EEBE), Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya (UPC), C\/Eduard Maristany, 10-14, E-08019 Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1763-0514","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vicen\u00e7","family":"Mart\u00ed","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, Escola d\u2019Enginyeria de Barcelona Est (EEBE), Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya (UPC), C\/Eduard Maristany, 10-14, E-08019 Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"An overview of the technology used to remove trihalomethane (THM), trihalomethane precursors, and trihalomethane formation potential (THMFP) from water and wastewater","volume":"57","year":"2017","journal-title":"J. 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