The invention provides a method for determining volatile
phenol in water. In
color reaction using 4-amino-antipyrine direct
spectrophotometry to determine volatile
phenol in water, the method uses Tween-80 as
nonionic surfactant to play a role in stability augmentation and sensitivity enhancement, reduce
system blank value and improve determination sensitivity. The method comprises the following steps: accurately shifting 1.00 mu g / mL of freshly prepared
phenol-
standard solution or a certain amount of to-be-determined
water sample subjected to predistillation into a 50mL colorimetric tube; adding water to a scale; adding 0.50 mL of ammoniacal
buffer solution and fully mixing the materials; adding 0.40 mL of 1 percent Tween-80 solution and mixing the materials well; adding 1.50 mL of 2 percent 4-amino-antipyrine solution and fully mixing the materials for 2 minutes; adding 1.00 mL of 8 percent
potassium ferricyanide solution, fully mixing the materials for 1 minute and keeping the mixture stand for 10 minutes; and then determining the
absorbance value of the mixture. A
colored compound solution prepared in the invention is stable for at least 2 hours, thus the stability of the
colored compound solution is greatly enhanced than that in the prior method before improvement, and the
colored compound solution is obviously lower in blank
absorbance value and higher in sensitivity, and has
detection limit lower than that of the
national standard method. The method has the
advantage of determining the volatile phenol in
tap water samples, along with high
recovery rate and accurate results.