Analysis of Aromatic Amines in Surface Waters Receiving Wastewater from a Textile Industry by Liquid Chromatographic with Electrochemical Detection
- 1 November 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Analytical Letters
- Vol. 39 (14), 2671-2685
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00032710600824797
Abstract
A high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method with electrochemical detection (ED) was developed for the determination of benzidine, 3,3‐dimethylbenzidine, o‐toluidine and 3,3‐dichlorobenzidine in the wastewater of the textile industry. The aromatic amines were eluted on a reversed phase column Shimadzu Shimpack C18 using acetonitrile+ammonium acetate (1×10−4 mol L−1) at a ratio 46:54 v/v as mobile phase, pumped at a flow rate of 1.0 mL min−1. The electrochemical oxidation of the aromatic amines exhibits well‐defined peaks at a potential range of +0.45 to +0.78 V on a glassy carbon electrode. Optimum working potentials for amperometric detection were from 0.70 V to +1.0 V vs. Ag/AgCl. Analytical curves for all the aromatic amines studied using the best experimental conditions present linear relationship from 1×10−8 mol L−1 to 1.5×10−5 mol L−1, r=0.99965, n=15. Detection limits of 4.5 nM (benzidine), 1.94 nM (o‐toluidine), 7.69 nM (3,3‐dimethylbenzidine), and 5.15 nM (3,3‐dichlorobenzidine) were achieved, respectively. The detection limits were around 10 times lower than that verified for HPLC with ultra violet detection. The applicability of the method was demonstrated by the determination of benzidine in wastewater from the textile industry dealing with an azo dye processing plant.Keywords
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