MIDDLE EAST UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Engineering
Department of civil engineering

Student: Zaid Qasim AlShawabkeh

ID Student: 201920208
Instructor: Dr. AYMEN AWAD
Course: Environmental and Sanitary
Engineering Lab
Experiment: Chloride test
Experiment: No 5.
 1. Introductio
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Chlorides are widely distributed as salts of calcium, sodium and potassium in
water and wastewater. In potable water, the salty taste produced by chloride
concentrations is variable and dependent on the chemical composition of water.
The major taste producing salts in water are sodium chloride and calcium
chloride. The salty taste is due to chloride anions and associated cations in water.

2. EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES

In some water which is having only 250 mg /L of chloride may have a detectable
salty taste if the cat-ion present in the water is sodium. On the other hand, a
typical salty taste may be absent even if the water is having very high chloride
concentration for example 1000 mg /L.

1. Burette
2. Burette stand and porcelain tile
3. Pipettes with elongated tips
4. Conical flask (Erlenmeyer Flask)
5. Standard flask
6. Beaker
7. Wash bottle

3. Procedure 
 4.
Calculations 
( AgNo 3 Sample−V blank ) × N × dw ×1000
Chlorides=
volume of sample (10 mL)

5.
CONCLUTIO
Our results obtained from this experiment have allowed us to determine the percent
S 
of Chloride (Cl-) in a small portion of our unknown sample, unknown number 5.
After running three tests in which we used the process of titration*to equalize the
moles of Silver nitrate (AgNO3) to the moles of Cl we were able to accurately
calculate the amount of C-in our sample. While each test ran different percentages
of chloride (Titration 1 = 15.41%, Titration 2 = 14.88%, Titration 3 = 14.58%), we
were able to calculate the average of the three, which gave us an average Chloride
percentage of 14.96%. However, out of the three results, I believe that our second
titration, the middle result for percent Chloride at 14.88%, is our most accurate
result of the three. I feel that the first titration was a few drops over, especially
considering its significant increase in percentage over the second and third
titrations