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Sulfur and its forms (Read 92 times)
Zia
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Sulfur and its forms
Aug 06th, 2012, 5:55am
 
Hello Everybody,

I am working on H2S removal in the anaerobic digesters. For that purpose i am using waste water and substrate of biogas plants running on energycrops, animal manure etc. I would like to know is there any way i can find how much organic and inorganic sulfur is present in my feed. Or what forms of sulfur (slgides, sulphates etc) are present in the fermenter.

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Zia
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Re: Sulfur and its forms
Reply #1 - Aug 6th, 2012, 11:00am
 
I'm pretty sure you can use ion chromatography to get sulfate, sulfite, and thiosulfate. Contact your IC instrument provider for the best column for your needs. If you don't have an IC you can do sulfite by iodometric titration and sulfate by gravimetric or turbidimetric methods. I'm not sure how you would do thiosulfate by wet chemistry means. Sulfide can be done via a few different methods. Depending on suspected interferences and desired detection limit you will probably be best served by the iodometric titration, ion selective electrode, or methylene blue methods. Those should be your main categories of sulfur species. I guess you could get a total sulfur analyzer and see if there is anything else present that is not accounted for in the aforementioned categories.
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