Abstract

EMULSION LIQUID MEMBRANE EXTRACTION AND DETERMINATION OF CIPROFLOXACIN WITH ALIQUAT-336

Vidyagauri Lele, Saira Mulla*, Suhas Kulkarni and Anand Patil

Abstract

A novel method for the emulsion liquid membrane extraction and separation of antibiotic ciprofloxacin from 1.5mole/dm3 NaCl carbonate buffer pH(Varying) feed phase using aliquat-336 has been developed. Ciprofloxacin has been stripped from organic phase with NaCl buffer of pH 4.0 and determined spectrophotometrically at 272 nm. The method developed has been applied for the selective separation of ciprofloxacin from synthetic industrial effluent. The method developed is rapid, simple and excels most of the conventional techniques because of following merits such as low energy requirements, compact modular device, simultaneous extraction and stripping in the same device, zero pollution and use of mild to moderate process conditions.

Keywords: Ciprofloxacin, Aliquot -336, Span 80.