Chemical Process Industries (lab)

Department of Chemical Engineering Course No. Ch.E-201

Wah Engineering College wahcantt.

EXPERIMENT# 10

Experiment Title: Butter analysis

Objective: Find out the percentage of NaCl in butter sample sample.

Apparatus required: petri-dish, separating funnel, pipette, beaker, titration flask, oven, measuring flask,
burette.

Chemicals required: N/50 AgNO 3 solution, K 2CrO 4 indicator.

Procedure:

Take a petri dish and heat it in an oven at a temperature of about 95 0 C and then
cool it by placing it in a vacuum desicator .Take 2-2.5g of butter in a pretared petri dish. Pour this butter in
the separating funnel by adding hot boiled water. Rinse the petridish with hot water and pour it in the
funnel so that all the butter contents is added to the funnel. Two layers will be formed in the separating
funnel , i.e.,upper layers of fat and lower layer of NaCl solution. Take the NaCl solution out so that fat do
not come out .

Take the NaCl solution in the titration flask and add a drop of K 2 CrO 4 indicator in it. Take

N/50 AgNO 3 solution in the burette . Note down the initial burette reading. Titrate till the end point brick
red colour is achieved. Note down the final burette reading and calculate the %age of salts in butter as
given below

Observations and Calculations:

1. Weight of butter sample take = _______________________
2. Indicator = K 2 CrO 4
3. End point colour of the solution = Brick red Colour
4. Standard solution taken in the burette = N/50 AgNO 3 solution.

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Sr.No. Initial Burette Reading Final Burette Reading Volume of N/50 AgNO 3
(ml) (ml) solution used (ml)

Mean Reading = ________

Volume of N/50 AgNO 3 solution used for titration = (x) __________________________

As;

1 Gm. EQ. of AgNO 3 = 1 Gm. EQ. of NaCl

1000 ml of 1 N AgNO 3 = 1000ml of 1 N NaCl

So,
x ml of N/50 AgNO 3 = x ml of N/50 NaCl
Now;

1000 ml of 1 N NaCL = 58.5g NaCl

1 ml of N/50 NaCl = (58.5/1000) * (1/50) * 1.5 gm of NaCl

x ml of N/50 NaCl = (58.5/1000) * (1/50) * x gm of NaCl

________________ (y)gm of NaCl

%age of NaCl in butter = (__________y_______________/weight of butter sample) * 100

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