Research Article

An Environmental Friendly Procedure for Photometric Determination of Hypochlorite in Tap Water Employing a Miniaturized Multicommuted Flow Analysis Setup

Table 1

Minipumps switching pattern.

StepEvent 𝑃 1 𝑃 2 𝑃 3CyclesVolume ( 𝜇 L)

(a)Filling flow linesOnOffOff30360
(b)Washing flow cellOffOnOff40240
(c)Photometer calibrationOffOffOff0
(d)DPD and acetate buffer insertionOnOnOff448
(e)Sample insertion signal readingOffOnOn12144
(f)Signal readingOffOnOff40240

The number 1 and 0 indicated that respective mini-pump is switched ON or OFF, respectively. Cycles indicate the selected number of times that each valve was switched On/Off.