Determination of the Reactive Dye Navy Blue Her in the Wastewaters of the Dyeing Processes of Chrome-tanned Leather

Abstract

One of the main environmental problems in the leather industry is the contaminant load and amount of effluent produced during the industrial process. From these effluents we can highlight those resulting from the dyeing processes that contribute to the increase of the COD and BOD of the discharged wastewaters. The aim of the present work is to develop and validate simple, rapid, specific, selective, precise, robust and economical UV-Vis Spectrophotometric method for the estimation of reactive dye (Navy Blue HER) in aqueous solutions and effluents of the dyeing processes of chrome-tanned leather. UV-Vis Spectrophotometric measurement was carried out at a wavelength of maximum absorbance of 610 nm using ultrapure water as the solvent. The developed method was validated with respect to specificity, selectivity, sensitivity, limits of detection and quantification, linearity, precision (repeatability, intermediate precision) and robustness. The calibration curve ( ) is linear (r2 = 0.99998) in the concentration range from 3.0 mg/L up to 48.0 mg/L. The limit of detection (LOD) and the limit of quantification (LOQ) are 0.206 mg/L and 0.624 mg/L, respectively. The analysis results and its statistical treatment have proved that this analytical method is specific, selective, precise and robust, and has good repeatability and intermediate precision. Thus the proposed method was approved for all the analyzed parameters, being therefore, properly validated, and can be successfully applied for the estimation of reactive dye (Navy Blue HER) in aqueous solutions and effluents of the dyeing processes of chrome-tanned leather.