Kjeldahl

Kjeldahl nitrogen determinations are performed on a variety of food substances. The Kjeldahl method may be broken down into three main steps: digestion, distillation, and titration.

1. Digestion: is accomplished by boiling a homogeneous sample in concentrated sulphuric acid. The end result is an ammonium sulphate solution.

2. Distillation: excess base is added to the digestion product to convert the ammonium salt to ammonia.

3. Titration: the amount of nitrogen in a sample can be calculated from the quantified amount of ammonia in the receiving solution. The ammonia is captured either with a carefully measured excess of a standardised acid solution (back titration) or a boric acid solution (direct titration)

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Digestion

VWR can offer different heating systems, with flexibility in volume (from 100 ml to 800 ml) and in the number of samples too...

Distillation

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Titration

From simple burettes to fully automated, programmable titration systems from Schott and Mettler....

Kjeldahl Reagents, Merck

The objective has been to develop catalysts for shorter reaction times...