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Chemical oxygen demand of seawater determined with a microwave heating method

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This paper investigates a microwave heating method for the determination of chemical oxygen demand (COD) in seawater. The influences of microwave-power, heating time and standard substances on the results are studied. Using the proposed method, we analyzed the glucose standard solution, the coefficient of variation being less than 2%. Compared with the traditional electric stove heating method, the results of F-test and T-test showed that there was no significant difference between the two methods, but the microwave method had slightly higher precision and reproducibility than the electric stove method. With the microwave heating method, several seawater samples from Jiaozhou Bay and the South Yellow Sea were also analyzed. The recovery was between 97.5% and 104.3%. This new method has the advantages of shortening the heating time, improving the working efficiency and having simple operation and therefore can be used to analyze the COD in seawater.

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  1. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ocean University of China, 266003, Qingdao, P.R.China

    Liu Li, Ji Hongwei, Liu Ying & Xin Huizhen

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Liu, L., Ji, H., Liu, Y. et al. Chemical oxygen demand of seawater determined with a microwave heating method. J Ocean Univ. China 4, 152–156 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11802-005-0009-3

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