Cleaner Production Assessment of Fast Bordeaux GP Base

Table 2

Acidity and sodium acetate in filtrate and washed water in nitration and hydrolysis step.

	Acidity (% w/v as HNO3) of nitration			Sodium acetate (% w/v) of hydrolysis
	Batch-1	Batch-2	Batch-3	Batch-1	Batch-2	Batch-3
Filtrate	20	20.1	19.8	19	19.2	19.7
Washed water I	7.2	8.4	9	7.5	8.1	8.3
Washed water II	2.8	4	4.4	2.5	3.7	4.0
Washed water III	0	1.2	1.6	0	1	1.2
Washed water IV	0	0.3	0.5	0	0.3	0.4