Chinese Journal of Chromatography ›› 2017, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (3): 314-317.DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1123.2016.10002

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Determination of trace chlorine in caprolactam by ion chromatography coupled with multiple pyrolysis and enrichment pretreatment

NI Lijun, LIU Jianyun, CHEN Zhu, TANG Bingjing, WANG Fang, LUAN Shaorong   

  1. School of Chemistry & Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
  • Received:2016-10-05 Online:2017-03-08 Published:2013-07-16
  • Supported by:

    Open Fund from Key Laboratory of Coal Gasification and Energy Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education of East China University of Science and Technology (No. 2016KY11-042).

Abstract:

A method was developed for determination of trace chlorine in caprolactam samples by ion chromatography (IC) coupled with multiple pyrolysis and enrichment pretreatment. The caprolactam samples were treated by multiple pyrolysis at 800℃. Trace organic chlorine in samples was decomposed into chlorine or hydrogen chloride. The gas products of pyrolysis were absorbed and enriched in 5 mL 10 mmol/L NaOH solution, which was analyzed by IC with suppressed conductor. Under the optimum conditions, the linear relationship of Cl- was good in the range of 0.05-1.0 mg/L with correlation coefficient of 0.9997. The method detection limit of chlorine in caprolatam samples was 0.37 μg/g. For 0.8 mg/L Cl- standard solution, the RSDs of retention time, peak area and peak height were 0.04%, 0.24%, and 0.20%, respectively (n=7). The RSD of the contents of chlorine in caprolactam samples was 1.52% (n=4). The conversion ratio of Cl- standard solution ranged from 93.3% to 104.0%, and the spiked recoveries of the samples ranged from 95.3% to 113.1%. The method was applied to determine the contents of chlorine in caprolactam samples with simple operation, controlled pretreatment, low blank, low detection limit, good reproducibility and satisfactory results.

Key words: caprolactam, ion chromatography (IC), multiple pyrolysis and enrichment pretreatment, trace chlorine

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