Development of low-cost equipment to instrumentalize the ASTM D 1209-00 method / Desenvolvimento de equipamento de baixo custo instrumentalizar o metodo ASTM D 1209-00

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The ASTM D1209-00 method describes the procedure for the visual measurement of the color of essentially light colored liquids, which involves the visual comparation between the color of the samples with the color of Pt-Co standards solutions, with concentration from 1 to 500 unities of Pt-Co, the ASTM D 1209-00 scale (solutions obtained by mixing potassium chloroplatinate, from 1,5x10 to 3,6x10 mol L and cobalt chloride in the concentrations of 1,7x10 to 4,2x10 mol L). It is kown and was confirmed in tests with volunteers that there and serious difficulties with this method for very diluted solutions (concentration from 1 to 25 unities of Pt-Co), that are extremely clear, hardly distinguished by visual observation, whose in many cases represent the samples of most interest in some application sectors. In an attempt to overcome these difficulties, a robust and low cost device was developed for a rapid analysis. A blue light emitting diode (LED) was used as a radiation source and a Photo IC Diode S7183 (Hamamatsu) as the detector, in a set of black PVC cells with different options of optical path and with the option of using or not an internal glass tube to load the solutions. Analytical curves were obtained with second degree fitting for 340 and 170 mm cells. An 85 mm cell gives linear analytical curve with correlation coefficient = 0.9978, from 25 to 500 units of Pt-Co. With the use of the glass tube, curves with second order polynomial fitting were obtained for 170 and 85 mm cells. The performance of the device developed were tested with samples of epoxy bisfenol, cumene hidroperoxide, salicilic acid in ethanol and in aqueous solution of sodium carbonate 10 % w/v and cyclohexanol. The results presented deviations of the order of ± 1 units of Pt-Co, more precises than the ASTM method, which presents deviations up to ± 4 units of Pt-Co; with respect to the accuracy, there was statistic difference at the level of 95 %, which can be related to problems with the reference method

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diodos emissores de luz instrumentation colorimetry instrumentação led astm d 1209-00 method metodo astm d 1209-00 colorimetria

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