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TALANTA
Volume 52, Issue 1, Pages 101-109Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-9140(00)00328-3
Keywords
flow injection analysis; process control; water determination; Karl Fischer method; organic solvents; spectrophotometry; potentiometry
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Flow injection methods utilising the Karl Fischer (KF) reaction with spectrophotometric and potentiometric detection are described for the determination of the trace water content in various organic solvents. Optimisation of the methods resulted in an accessible (linear) working range of 0.01-0.2% water for many solvents studied with a typical precision of 1-2% R.S.D. Only 50 mu l of organic solvent was injected and the sampling frequency was about 120 samples per h. Since the slopes of the calibration curves were different for different solvents appropriate calibration was required. Problems associated with spectrophotometric detection and caused by refractive index changes were pointed out and a nested-loop configuration was proposed to overcome this kind of interference. The potentiometric method with a novel flow-through detector cell was shown to surpass the performance of spectrophotometric detection in any respect, The characteristics of the procedures developed made them well applicable for on-line monitoring of technical solvent distillations in an industrial plant. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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