Hamzar Suyani

SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF CADMIUM, COPPER AND LEAD IN SEA WATER BY ADSORPTIVE STRIPPING VOLTAMMETRY IN THE PRESENCE OF CALCON AS A COMPLEXING AGENT

A selective and sensitive adsorptive stripping voltammetric (AdSV) procedure for the simultaneous determination of cadmium, copper and lead in the sea water was conducted. The aim of this research is to get optimum condition for simultaneous determination of cadmium, copper and lead. Adsorptive stripping voltammetry has been used for determination of trace amount of Cd(II), Cu(II) and Pb (II) by using calcon as a complexing agent. The parameters studied were variation of calcon concentration, pH, accumulation potential and accumulation time. In this study, the optimum conditions were calcon concentration of 0.6 mM, pH = 4.0, accumulation potential of -0.7 V and accumulation time of 80 sec. At the optimum conditions, the relative standard deviation were 8.78%, 3.12%, and 4.02% for Cd(II), Cu(II) and Pb(II) respectively for eight replicates (n = 8) measurements of 10 μg/L mixed standard solution of Cd(II), Cu(II) and Pb(II). The method was applied to the direct simultaneous determination of Cd(II), Cu(II) and Pb(II) in sea water around Bungus, Padang City. Concentration of Cd(II), Cu(II) and Pb(II) in samples were equal to 1.8 μg/L for Cd(II), 38.6 μg/L for Cu(II) and 0.7 μg/L for Pb(II) with recovery of 87.03%, 98.80%, and 95.73%, respectively.

DEGRADATION OF PERMETHRIN BY PHOTOLYSIS METHOD USING CATALYST TiO 2 -ANATASE

The research was about the degradation of permethrin compound by photolysis method using TiO 2 -anatase as catalyst. Permethrin is a synthetic pyretroid pesticides which has low toxicity for mammals but high toxicity for fishes, insects and water microorganisms. Photolysis method is conducted by using 10 watt UV lamp at 365 nm of wavelength. The degradation of permethrin by photolysis were done without and with TiO 2 -anatase on varied time and TiO 2 -anatase addition. The result showed that photolysis could degrade 5.40 %the 20 mg/L permethrin compound after 120 minutes irradiation. Permethrin compound with similar consentration by addition 8 mg TiO 2 -anatase without mixing could degrade 18,59 % and with mixing could degrade 85,65% after 120 minutes irradiation. Degradation of permethrin compound by photolysis method using TiO 2 -anatase as catalyst is effective and efficient. Keywords: Degradation, Photolysis, Permethrin, TiO 2 -anatase.