The invention relates to a method for rapidly measuring
permanganate indexes in water by a spectrophotometric method. The method comprises the following steps: selecting a
colorimeter tube and extracting a
water sample; adding a proper amount of
sulfuric acid until the
water sample is acidic; adding 0.01mu mol / L-0.2mu mol / L of
permanganate solution and heating the obtained
mixed solution in a heating reactor at 100 DEG C for 15-45 minutes; after the
mixed solution is cooled, reducing the remaining
permanganate with excessive
nitrite, and then adjusting the obtained reaction solution into a constant volume after the reaction; taking out and placing 1ml of the reaction solution with a constant volume in the
colorimeter tube of 25ml, adjusting the reaction solution into a constant volume once again, and sequentially adding 0.5ml of
sulfanilamide and 0.5ml of
ethylenediamine; and standing for 10 minutes, and taking water as a reference and measuring the absorbancy by a
cuvette with the
optical path length of 10mm at the position with the
wavelength of 10mm. In the invention, a rapid quantitative
analysis method of the permanganate indexes in the water is established by the mode of indirectly measuring the
nitrite; the method is rapid and economical, and the process of titrating
sodium oxalate with the permanganate can be avoided; and the method can be widely applied to emergency, online monitoring, flow injection, lab
informatization management and the like.