A simple apparatus was developed for the rapid and continuous determination of chemical oxygen demand (COD) in environmental water samples based on the principle of flow injection-spectrophotometric analysis. A solution of 2.7×10
-4M potassium permanganate in 3.3% sulfuric acid was pumped with a reciprocating pump into the manifold to which 20μl of sample (
i.
e. sodium oxalate solution) was also introduced by manual injection. After reaction, the mixture went through a quartz flow cell (10mm light path, 18μl volume) placed in a spectrophotometer operated at a wavelength of 525nm. The manifold was made entirely of polytetrafluoroethylene tubing (0.5mm inner diameter, 10m length). The signal from the spectrophotometer was continuously recorded. When a pumping rate was chosen to be 1.9ml min
-1, a residence time was 1min. A sampling rate of 120 samples per hour was achieved and the apparent COD at a concentration range of (21170) mg COD l
-1 was measured reproducibly. Chloride at 10 mg l
-1 level was suppressed by adding 0.1% silver nitrate in the flow injection system.
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