We need to test for chlorates in effluent from a chemical manufacturing company that produces sodium chlorate, and in the receiving environment which is seawater.
Our labs in Canada cannot currently test for chlorate. Is there an alternative parameter such as chlorine-produced oxidants? or have you used any lab methods for this?
Our objective is to ensure that chlorates are not affecting the brown algae (fucus) in the receiving environment.
Thank you.
This is the EPA method - maybe you can find a local analytical chemist with the right equipment:
https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_report.cfm?Lab=ORD&dirEntryId=36476#:~:text=Chlorate%20ion%20is%20determined%20directly,determined%20by%20a%20potentiometric%20method.
Dear Julie Porter, there are various and simple analysis techniques applied in similar situations. Please have a look at the following documents. My Regards
https://doi.org/10.1021/ac50094a005
https://doi.org/10.1039/AN9396400653
10.19813/j.cnki.weishengyanjiu.2020.04.020
https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/2360420
https://www.jstor.org/stable/108160?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Please read this
https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/canadian-conservation-institute-notes/test-chloride-ions-iron-treatment-silver-nitrate.html
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