Sciencemadness Discussion Board

Removing NaCl

SAM4CH - 5-5-2009 at 05:26

How can I use new technique to remove "1-2%" of sodium chloride in aqueos solution with another dissolved chemical in the same solution??

What about Membranes?

hissingnoise - 5-5-2009 at 06:04

It's hard to say without knowing what it is you want to purify and how much is in solution. . .
1-2% shouldn't be too difficult.

SAM4CH - 5-5-2009 at 06:30

It is 2% NaCl in water with 550g/L NaClO3!!
I should purfied NaClO3 with out recrystalyzation or washing, I like to use membrane technique..

hissingnoise - 5-5-2009 at 08:08

If it's for pyro, 2% chloride is acceptable. . .
Recrystallisation is the way to go---a hot, saturated solution will deposit fairly pure chlorate.
Or you could use KCl to precipitate KClO3.

not_important - 6-5-2009 at 05:10

I've not heard of membranes that give good selection of chloride vs chlorate, at least not afforable ones. This is a good example where recrystallisation would be the preferred method, just draw the solubility curves and see why.


Rich_Insane - 6-5-2009 at 08:12

Considering how small the impurity is (I don't know your use, however), I think that recrystallizing the hot solution would be the way to go.