Dr Anna Heitz

Research Fellow

BSc (Hons), PhD (Curtin)
Field of interest: Water chemistry, the treatment of potable water, chemical processes in distribution systems and analytical organic chemistry

Contact Details

Centre for Applied Organic Geochemistry
Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U1987
Perth WA 6845
Building 303 - 238
Phone +61 (0) 8 9266 7267
Fax +61 (0) 8 9266 3547
Email A.Heitz@curtin.edu.au

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Research Projects

• Development of a Dissolved Organic Carbon Detector for Use in Size Exclusion Chromatography to Determine the Molecular Weight Distribution of Natural Organic Matter in Natural Waters
• Characterisation of Natural Organic Matter in Source and Treated Waters
• Improved Drinking Water Quality: Chemical and Microbiological Investigations of Advanced Drinking Water Treatment Technologies

Key Publications

Heitz, A., Blythe, J., Allpike, B., Joll, C.A. and Kagi, R.I. (2003) Plastic tastes in drinking water: Factors affecting the chemistry of bromophenol formation. Water Science and Technology 2, 179-184.

Franzmann, P.D., Heitz, A., Zappia, L.R., Wajon, J.E. and Xanthis, K. (2001) The formation of malodorous dimethyl oligosulphides in treated ground water: the role of biofilms and potential precursors. Water Research 35, 1730-1738.

Heitz, A., Allpkie, B., Joll, C.A., Blythe, J. and Kagi, R.I. (2001) Plastic taste in drinking water caused by bromophenols. In Enviro2001: Proceedings of the 19th Federal Convention of the Australian Water Association. Canberra, April, 2001.

Heitz, A., Kagi, R.I. and Alexander, R. (2000) Polysulfide sulfur in pipewall biofilms: Its role in the formation of swampy odour in distribution systems. Water Science and Technology 41, 271-278.

Heitz, A., Joll, C.A., Alexander, R. and Kagi, R.I. (2000) Characterisation of aquatic natural organic matter in some Western Australian drinking water sources. In Proceedings of the 9th International Meeting of the International Humic Substances Society. Adelaide, September, 1998