>Hi to all, >Does anyone out there know the process for removing water from ethanol using >3A zeolite. I know this is the material used by industry to do this >but I'd like to >know the process. As I understand it this will remove all the water content of >distilled ethanol. Any remarks? > >Thanks, >Ron Miller
First, make sure it's dry, by heating to about 600 deg. F for several hours, then cooling back down in dry air. Toss in the required amount with your hydrous ethanol (molecular sieve zeolite absorbs like 25% of its weight in water) and stand back -- it can get HOT. Takes a few hours to get saturated. Oh, I'm sure the pros will talk all about columns of X dia. and Y length, with flow rates of blah, blah, but the simple ways are best. Good luck -- BTW, I only have free samples of this stuff. Did you actually have to PAY for it, and if so, how much (if you don't mind my asking :-)). Check out http://www.sorbentsystems.com/desiccants_charts.html for some good info and graphs, and let us know your results. -K Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
