Simultaneous Determination of D.D.T. in Effluent from Insecticides Manufacturing Industries Surrounding Govindpura Industrial Area, Bhopal

Praveen Jain¹ and S. A. Pillai²*

¹Department of Chemistry, Government M.LB. P. G. Girls Autonomous College, Bhopal - 462 001 India. ²Safety Division, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Bhopal - 462 001 (India)

ABSTRACT:

Insecticides have maximum sale followed by herbicides and pesticides. The effluents generated from an insecticides manufacturing unit were studied. The sample collected where extracted with n-hexane and subjected to develop procedure by passing the extract through Florosil column. The detection limit were 0.1 g/ml for Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloro Ethane. Recovery was more than 95% for DDT. The method is simple and sensitive.

KEYWORDS:

Simultaneous; Determination; Manufacturing; N-hexane

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