Flow Injection Analysis Using Potassium Permanganate: An Approach for Measuring Chemical Oxygen Demand in Organic Wastes and Waters

Abstract

A rapid and continuous analytical method based on flow injection analysis was developed for the determination of chemical oxygen demand due to organic substances in water pollution. Potassium permanganate and sulfuric acid solutions were individually pumped up as an oxidizing agent and glucose was used as a standard substance. The results for filtered organic waste and water samples were as reasonable as compared to those measured by the manual acidic permanganate method.     

复杂水体中五日生化需氧量测定的硝化抑制

利用丙烯基硫脲对有机污染物硝化过程进行抑制。五日生化需氧量反映的是有机污染物生物氧化过程中碳化阶段的耗氧量,而硝化阶段会导致测定结果显著偏高。未知水样基体复杂,很难判断是否存在会引起硝化作用的硝化细菌,往往导致测定结果偏高甚至出现生化需氧量大于化学需氧量(即B/C值大于1)的不合理现象。向每升稀释水中加入0.1%的丙烯基硫脲硝化抑制剂,对基体复杂样品进行稀释后测定,使得样品的B/C值回到理论正常值(0.2~0.7)的范围内,对空白样品和标准样品的实验结果均满足国标方法的质控保证及要求。生化需氧量测定时间长而难以进行复测,该方法有效地排除了干扰,操作简便,降低了生化需氧量测定过程中稀释倍数选择不合适的风险,减小了工作量,提高了准确度。该方法对正常水样的测定结果不产生显著影响,适用于大批量复杂水体样品的测定。     

Preconcentration of copper with multi-walled carbon nanotubes pretreated by potassium permanganate cartridge for solid phase extraction prior to flame atomic absorption spectrometry

A procedure for the preconcentration of copper was described in this paper using multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) oxidized by potassium permanganate as the adsorbent for the enrichment of trace copper in water samples. Important parameters, such as the sample pH, the concentration and volume of eluent, sample flow rate and volume, and interference of coexisting ions, were investigated. The obtained results indicated that proposed method possessed an excellent analytical performance. The linear range, the detection limit, and precison (RSD) were 1-100 ng/mL (R2 = 0.9993), 0.32 ng/mL and 2.88%, respectively. The results showed that copper could be adsorbed quantitatively on the pretreated MWCNTs with potassium permanganate, and proposed method was very useful in the monitoring of copper in the environment.     

Chemiluminescence detection flow cells for flow injection analysis and high-performance liquid chromatography

We have examined a range of new and previously described flow cells for chemiluminescence detection. The reactions of acidic potassium permanganate with morphine and amoxicillin were used as model systems representing the many fast chemiluminescence reactions between oxidising agents and organic analytes, and the preliminary partial reduction of the reagent was exploited to further increase the rates of reaction. The comparison was then extended to high-performance liquid chromatography separations of α- and β-adrenergic agonists, with permanganate chemiluminescence detection. Flow cells constructed by machining novel channel designs into white polymer materials (sealed with transparent films or plates) have enabled improvements in mixing efficiency and overall transmission of light to the photodetector.     

Chemiluminescence of Potassium Permanganate–Glyoxal–Sulfur Contained Compound System

Abstract

Sulfur contained compound (SCC) had different abilities in term of increasing the intensity of chemiluminescence of potassium permanganate with glyoxal. In a flow system, including methimazole, captopril, cimetidine, methionine, chloropromazine hydrochloride, chlorprothixene and propacil, enhanced intensity was detected, therefore the CL of potassium permanganate–glyoxal–SCC system was studied. Under the optimized experimental conditions, low detection limit and large calibration ranges for Sulfur contained compound were obtained. The proposed method allowed 90 injections h^?1 with excellent repeatability and precision. The method was successfully applied to the determination of six SCC in commercial pharmaceutical formulations with recoveries in the range of 97.24–102.2%. The method was validated through the pharmacopoeia reference method. The possible chemiluminescence reaction mechanism of potassium permanganate–glyoxal–SCC was discussed briefly.     

Chemometrics characterisation of the quality of river water

Within the period from autumn 1990 to spring 1999 (from October to April in each period) 207 samples were collected and the measurement of 19 physical and chemical variables of the Mura river, Slovenia, were carried out. These variables are: river flow, water temperature, air temperature, dissolved oxygen, deficit of oxygen, oxygen saturation index, chemical oxygen demand (COD) in unfiltered and filtered samples, and biochemical oxygen demand after 5 days (BOD5) in unfiltered and filtered samples, pH, conductivity, ammonium, nitrite, nitrate, and phosphate concentrations, adsorbable organic halogens (AOX), dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and suspended solids. For handling the results of all measurements different chemometrics methods were employed: (i) the basic statistical methods for the determination of mean and median values, standard deviations, minimal and maximal values of measured variables, and their mutual correlation coefficients, (ii) the principal component analysis (PCA), and (iii) the clustering method based on Kohonen neural network. The influences of season, month, sampling site, and sampling time on the pollutant levels were examined. Before 1993, the pulp and paper industry was the main source of pollutants because of large amounts of chlorine emission as a consequence of industrial treatment, the leaching of cellulose. After the year 1993, the technology was changed and the quality of the river water has improved. The improvement could be detected 1 year after the change of technology. For one part of water samples the river quality classes based on biological parameters were also determined. The correlation between the biologically determined quality classes and chemical measurements was sought. Consequently, the biological classification for the water samples based on the chemical analyses was studied.     

Determination of chemical oxygen demand in fresh waters using flow injection with on-line UV-photocatalytic oxidation and spectrophotometric detection

A flow injection manifold incorporating UV-photocatalytic oxidation for the determination of chemical oxygen demand (COD) in freshwater is reported. The method utilises the UV-photocatalytic oxidation of organic compounds instead of conventional heating (used in the standard method), with acidified potassium permanganate as the oxidant. Sodium oxalate, d-glucose and potassium hydrogen phthalate were used as COD standards. A 100 microL sample solution was injected into a 0.3 mol L(-1) H2SO4 carrier stream containing 0.1 mol L(-1) (NH4)2SO4, merged with a permanganate solution (8 x 10(-4) mol L(-1)) and passed through a 250 cm FEP (fluoroethylene polymer) photo-reaction coil wound around a 15 W UV lamp. The sample throughput was 30 h(-1), with an LOD (blank plus 3sigma) of 0.5 mg COD L(-1) and a linear range of 0.5-50 mg COD L(-1) (D-glucose, r2 = 0.9966). The method had good precision with relative standard deviations of 2.7% at 5 mg COD L(-1) and 1.2% at 20 mg COD L(-1) (n = 12) for glucose. Results for a COD certified reference material (QC Demand Quality Control Standard) were in good agreement with the certified COD value. Recovery from Tamar River water samples for all three COD standards was 83.0-111.0% and the COD values determined were in good agreement with those of a permanganate index reference method.     

Screening for antioxidants in complex matrices using high performance liquid chromatography with acidic potassium permanganate chemiluminescence detection

The use of high performance liquid chromatography with acidic potassium permanganate chemiluminescence detection to screen for antioxidants in complex plant-derived samples was evaluated in comparison with two conventional post-column radical scavenging assays (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radical (DPPH) and 2,2'-azinobis-(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) radical cation (ABTS(+))). In this approach, acidic potassium permanganate can react with readily oxidisable compounds (potential antioxidants), post-column, to produce chemiluminescence. Using flow injection analysis, experimental parameters that afforded the most suitable permanganate chemiluminescence signal for a range of known antioxidants were studied in a univariate approach. Optimum conditions were found to be: 1×10(-3)M potassium permanganate solution containing 1% (w/v) sodium polyphosphates adjusted to pH 2 with sulphuric acid, delivered at a flow rate of 2.5 mL min(-1) per line. Further investigations showed some differences in detection selectivity between HPLC with the optimised post-column permanganate chemiluminescence detection and DPPH and ABTS(+) assays towards antioxidant standards. However, permanganate chemiluminescence detection was more sensitive. Moreover, screening for antioxidants in green tea, cranberry juice and thyme using potassium permanganate chemiluminescence offers several advantages over the traditional DPPH and ABTS(+) assays, such as faster reagent preparation and superior stability; simpler post-column reaction manifold; and greater compatibility with fast chromatographic separations using monolithic columns.     

A high throughput chemiluminescence method for determination of chemical oxygen demand in waters

A novel and high throughput chemiluminescence (CL) method for determination of chemical oxygen demand (COD) in water sample was originally developed based on potassium permanganate-glutaraldehyde CL system. With this method, dissolved organic matter in water samples was digested by excess acid potassium permanganate, the reacted mixture solutions containing surplus KMnO₄ were added in wells of a 96-well plate, followed by injection of glutaraldehyde in the wells, and CL was then produced along with the reaction of the added glutaraldehyde with the surplus KMnO₄ and detected by a photomultiplier tube (PMT). The difference (ΔI) between the CL intensity for distilled water and that for sample water was proportional to the COD value of water sample. The calibration graph was linear in the range of 0.16-19.24 mg L⁻¹ with a detection limit of 0.1 mg L⁻¹. A complete analysis could be performed in 40 min including digestion and detection, giving a very high throughput of 3 × 96 samples in about 60 min. Compared with the conventional methods, this method is simple and sensitive and consumes very limited and cheap reagents. Owing to its rapid, automatic, high throughput and low cost characteristics, the presented CL method has been applied successfully to the determination of COD in real water samples (n = 32) with satisfactory results.     

重铬酸钾容量法测定地质样品中的有机碳

目前,地质样品中有机碳的测定方法有干烧法（高温电炉灼烧）和湿烧法（重铬酸钾氧化）两大类。另外还有ICP-AES法、微波消解法、过硫酸钾法、电导法、石墨电热消解法、比色法等,然而这些有机碳测定方法仍然存在许多不尽如人意的地方。干烧法要求实验条件苛刻,操作繁琐,不易掌握,受碳酸盐的干扰。湿烧法虽然操作比较简单,但方法受样品中还原性物质的干扰,如氯根、亚铁等,上述方法都有待完善和优化改进。如：探索因不同样品基体差异而产生的干扰元素消除方法;寻找更合适的指示剂;本文采 用重铬酸钾-容量法测定地质样品中的有机碳,在220±10℃恒温电热板上,用0.4 mol/mL重铬酸钾溶解样品。通过优化熔矿温度、熔矿时间、熔剂浓度的优化选择,进行了氯离子的干扰试验。样品中含氯化物低的样品通过加入0.1 g硫酸银消除,样品中含氯化物高的样品通过高温灼烧减量消除。氧化指示剂选用邻菲啰啉或苯二氨基苯甲酸。本方法适用于土壤、水系沉积物、岩石等地质调查样品中有机碳的测定,方法相对标准偏差（RSD）在0.80%～4.41%之间,准确度（RE）在-3.15%～+1.15%之间。通过标准物质验证,方法技术指标满足地质行业规范DZ/T0130.4-2006中有机碳的分析要求,建立了一种简单、快捷、经济、准确的测定地质样品中有机碳的测定方法,满足地球化学调查批量样品生产的需要。     

Effect of oxidant type on the chemiluminescence intensity from the reaction of tris(2,2′-bipyridyl)ruthenium(III) with various organic acids

An investigation into the chemiluminescence of fourteen organic acids and tris(2,2′-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) was undertaken. Particular emphasis was placed upon the method of production of the reagent, tris(2,2′-bipyridyl)ruthenium(III), with cerium(IV) sulfate, potassium permanganate, lead dioxide and electrochemical generation. Analytically useful chemiluminescence was observed when Ce(IV) or potassium permanganate were employed as oxidants. The kinetics of analyte oxidation was related to the intensity of the chemiluminescence emission, which increased by three orders of magnitude for tartaric acid after 40 h of oxidation.     

高锰酸钾-甲醛化学发光体系测定甲氧氯普胺

基于在甲醛的作用下,高锰酸钾对甲氧氯普胺的氧化作用而产生化学发光的现象,建立了一种新的用流动注射-化学发光法测定甲氧氯普胺含量的方法.该方法测定甲氧氯普胺的线性范围为0.2~100 mg/L,检出限为0.1 mg/L.对于8 mg/L的甲氧氯普胺标准溶液连续11次测定的相对偏差为1.2%.该方法可用于对制药废水、片剂和针剂中甲氧氯普胺含量的测定.     

A set up of a modern analytical laboratory for wastewaters from pulp and paper industry

The introduction of analytical techniques allowing rapid, selective, sensitive, and reliable determination of aqueous pollutants is of crucial importance for the protection of the environment. This critical review summarizes the advanced analytical techniques suggested over the last ten years together with already established methods, and evaluates whether they are fit for wastewater quality assessment considering the area of application, interferences, limit of detection, calibration function, and precision. The key parameters of wastewater quality assessment are: total organic carbon (TOC), chemical oxygen demand (COD), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), organochlorines (AOX), nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, and toxicity. Chromatography and capillary electrophoresis, photocatalytic oxidation with semiconductor nanofilms and atomic emission spectrometry, optical fibre sensors and chemiluminescence, amperometric mediated biosensors and microbial fuel cells, respirometry and bioluminescence measurements are just part of the proposed wastewater analyst's toolkit. The diversity of fundamental phenomena and the captivating elegance of interdisciplinary applications involved in the development of wastewater analytical techniques should attract the interest of a wide scientific audience including analytical chemists, chemical physicists, microbiologists and environmentalists. To conclude, we suggest a laboratory set up for the analysis of wastewaters from the pulp and paper industry.     

Monitoring of environmental water using continuous flow

Automated continuous monitoring systems for chemical oxygen demand based on amperometry of permanganate and total mercury based on cold-vapor atomic absorption spectrometry have now been developed. The methods use continuous flow digestion, reduction and extraction in small bore tubes at low flow rates.     

Flow injection chemiluminescence analysis of some penicillins by their sensitizing effect on the potassium permanganate-glyoxal reaction.

A new chemiluminescence method using flow injection is described for the determination of four penicillins, namely: phenoxymethylpenicillin potassium, amoxicillin, ampicillin, and ampicillin sodium. The method is based on sensitizing effect of these drugs on the chemiluminescence reaction of potassium permanganate in sulfuric acid with glyoxal. The different experimental parameters affecting the chemiluminescence intensity were carefully studied and incorporated into the procedure. The method allows the determination of 0.1-1.0 microg/ml phenoxymethylpenicillin potassium, 0.1-1.0 microg/ml amoxicillin, 0.1-1.0 microg/ml ampicillin, and 0.1-1.0 microg/ml ampicillin sodium. The method was successfully applied to the determination of four penicillin antibiotics in pharmaceutical preparations.     

一种新的光催化氧化体系用于化学需氧量的测定研究

基于KMnO₄能获得光生电子从而提高半导体光催化氧化能力的原理,建立了一种用纳米ZnO-KMnO₄协同体系光催化测定化学需氧量(COD)的新方法,探讨了催化氧化测定COD的机理,考察了测定COD的最佳反应条件.COD值浓度在1.5～10mg/L范围内与信号呈良好的线性关系,检测限为0.5mg/L.用本方法测定实际水样,结果和标准高锰酸盐指数法(COD_Mn法)相符.     

Soluble manganese(IV) as a chemiluminescence reagent for the determination of opiate alkaloids, indoles and analytes of forensic interest

We present the results of our investigations into the use of soluble manganese(IV) as a chemiluminescence reagent, which include a significantly faster method of preparation and a study on the effect of formaldehyde and orthophosphoric acid concentration on signal intensity. Chemiluminescence detection was applied to the determination of 16 analytes, including opiate alkaloids, indoles and analytes of forensic interest, using flow injection analysis methodology. The soluble manganese(IV) reagent was less selective than either acidic potassium permanganate or tris(2,2′-bipyridyl)ruthenium(III) and therefore provided a more universal chemiluminescence detection system for HPLC. A broad spectral distribution with a maximum at 730 ± 5 nm was observed for the reaction between the soluble manganese(IV) and a range of analytes, as well as the background emission from the reaction with the formaldehyde enhancer. This spectral distribution matches that reported for chemiluminescence reactions with acidic potassium permanganate, where a manganese(II) emitting species was elucidated. This provides further evidence that the emission evoked in reactions with soluble manganese(IV) also emanates from a manganese(II) species, and not bimolecular singlet oxygen as suggested by previous authors.     

Some important moments in the development of organic elementary analysis

As early as 1784, Lavoisier carried out combustions of organic substances in a glass bell-jar filled with oxygen. No quantitative results were however obtained. In 1810, Gay-Lussac and Thenard burned organic material in a vertical tube with potassium chlorate as oxidizing agent, and analyzed the resulting mixture of gases. Later (1814–1817), Berzelius used a horizontal tube and a mixture of potassium chlorate and sodium chloride, and weighed the water and carbon dioxide formed. In 1831, Liebig described his potash apparatus and created a general method for the analysis of organic substances, in which cupric oxide was the oxidizing agent. The most important advance in organic analysis after LIEBIG is due to Pregl (1912). By his very well known methods of micro-analysis, progress in organic chemistry has been stimulated enormously. The volumetric determination of nitrogen suggested by Dumas in 1833, was developed by Pregl into a micro-method.     

Flow injection potentiometry of primary and interfering ion with a gold complex ion-exchange membrane

A gold(I) organic complex in the perchlorate form was incorporated in plasticized poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) membranes and the potentiometric response towards perchlorate (primary ion) and permanganate (interfering ion) was studied. Membranes with 2:1 and 1:2 (w/w) plasticizer to PVC ratio were selected for the determination of primary and interfering ions, respectively. In the selected flow injection conditions, a linear relationship between peak height and log c were obtained between 1x10(-2) and 2x10(-5) mol l(-1) perchlorate and 1x10(-3)-1x10(-5) mol l(-1) permanganate. Good reproducibilities and excellent selectivity coefficients towards many common ions were obtained. The methods proposed were applied satisfactorily to the determination of perchlorate in water and of permanganate in pharmaceutical preparations. Permanganate can be directly determined even in the presence of a high amount of manganese dioxide.     

流动注射化学发光法测定湖水中2-硝基酚

在酸性介质下,KMnO4可以氧化2-硝基酚产生化学发光,乙二醛对该发光体系有增敏作用。结合流动注射技术,建立了测定2-硝基酚的流动注射化学发光新方法。该方法线性范围为8.0×10-10～5.0×10-6 mol/L,检出限为1.0×10-11mol/L,对1.0×10-7 mol/L的2-硝基酚平行测定11次,相对标准偏差为2.4%。该法已用于实际水样中2-硝基酚的测定。