Checking Nitrogen Recovery With Acetanilide - J.P. SELECTA PRO-NITRO A Instruction Manual

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8.4 Checking Nitrogen recovery with Acetanilide

This test is widely used to certify the whole Kjeldahl analysis process, including the
digestion, distillation and titration steps.
It consists on preparing some samples that have a known Nitrogen content. The
samples are digested, distilled, titrated and the nitrogen detected is calculated.
Run this test some times to get familiar with the equipment and the Kjeldahl analy-
sis before analysing valuable samples.
The rate (%) of nitrogen detected versus the sample Nitrogen content give us the
Nitrogen Recovery.
Acetanilide is used to run this test.
Preparing the sample:
Nitrogen content of an acetanilide sample:
Formula: C H NO
8 9
Molecular weight: 135.17
Factor: 14 / 135.17 = 0.1035mg of Nitrogen = 0.1035 * mg Acetanilide.
• Weight around 250mg (100mg) of acetanilide. The exact weight P
• The Nitrogen content is:
Sample digestion:
• Place the acetanilide on a MACRO tube, add 10ml of Sulphuric acid 98% (for
example PANREAC 173163) and one tablet (or 8gr) of Kjeldahl catalyser.
• Digest at 400ºC for 1h. (The result must be a transparent blue liquid)
• Let cool at ambient temperature. Add 25ml of distilled water on each tube.
Operate with caution to avoid splash. Water reaction over the sulphuric acid could
be violent.
Distillation:
• Distillate by adding 75ml of NaOH. Use HCI 0.25N (0.1N) for tritation.
• Once sample is distilled and titrated following chapter 6, the detected Nitrogen
is calculated as: P
• Recovery is calculated as:
• Acceptable recovery is from 99.0 to 101 %.
Note:
If MICRO size tube is used, weight 0.3g of acetanilide, add 5ml of sulphuric acid,
and one tablet of Kjeldahl catalyser. On the dilution add 10ml water.
Distillate for 6 minutes adding 35ml of NaOH.
Note:
Some literature sets that the acceptable values for recovery must be above
99.5%. To get this result, you must work with high precision and use reagents with
high purity degree.
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