Fyndium
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Desiccating hygroscopic stuff moist with ethanol?
I rinsed a solid with ethanol to both crash it out from water, extract it from the RBF to filter it, and to dry it from water. The stuff is
hygroscopic and temperature sensitive, so are there any desiccants that adsorb ethanol?
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Yes, CaCl2 does.
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Then it's easy because it's been sitting in CaCl2 desiccator for few hours now, and shall remain so.
If I heat the desiccant later to regenerate it, should there be issues by the absorbed ethanol in form of flammable vapors?
Based on the source, it states following:
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Calcium chloride forms addition compounds with the alcohols. On evaporating a solution in ethyl alcohol at a low temperature rectangular plates of
2CaCl2β
7C2H5OH are deposited. The compounds CaCl2β
3C2H5OH and CaCl2β
CH3OH have also been separated, as well as a mono- and a di-acetone
compound, and compounds with isobutyl and amyl alcohols.
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It translates that the adduct/complex is stable at low temperatures. No temperature is stated, though, but should this translate to a fact that the
desiccator should be in a low temperature to adduct/complex with the ethanol?
[Edited on 21-11-2020 by Fyndium]
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If I heat the desiccant later to regenerate it, should there be issues by the absorbed ethanol in form of flammable vapors?
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Yes.
Be very careful or, given that CaCl2 is cheap- just don't bother unless you can do it in a still and collect the alcohol.
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I haven't bothered yet to get a bag of CaCl2 to my home lab, but may reconsider it eventually. It costs .50 a kg here.
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