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Probably need an environmental impact statement first. Also in that part of the workd, driving pipes in the ground often leads to flammable black
stuff coming back at you with some force. OK I'm being facetious, but how is this proposal superior to, or more easily done than, release in a covered
pit or staged release to the open air?
All such actions are risky, compared to binding the gas chemically in a less hazardous form. No one (except maybe the enemy) would want this to turn
into a cause celebre that would give the US a black eye. Remember that we are dealing with something that once upon a time was a war gas and MUCH more
recently has been perverted for that same purpose. Lethally, against civilians. (which makes the perps no better than Saddam, but we knew that
already.) We don't need any snafus that give anyone an asinine "moral equivalence" argument. Maybe we don't need to turn it into NaCl but at least
make it cease to be chlorine, then store it or bury it or something politically and militarily acceptable.
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How about this, make the calcium hypochlorite, then dump in some scrap iron. Eventually the iron will corrode away, regardless of shape, and the
hypochlorite will mostly cease to be. A completely hands-free way to dispose of the oxidation, while being relatively quick to remove the gas.
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Doesn't sound like you have much choice about it, you gotta get rid of it and have minimal neutralizing chemicals + very little water = there is no
choice but one if you want to get dispose of it in a practical manner.
take the tanks out where there is no one and just open the valves a bit enough to let it leak out over a few days
Sorry , but I don't see an alternative and Cl2 isn't that bad in tiny diluted quantities, your only environmentally non-time/ labor intensive way is
Calcium hydroxide, and thats not an option.
Actually, you have no options I see but for setting the contents free............
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Did I miss something? I didn't see @Sarge rule out the Ca(OH)2 method or any of the others for that matter. He said something about requisitioning
chemicals. Joked about the clerks at the supply depot having a fit.
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Maya
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He does need mass quantities of it,
I was just suggesting a quick painless way to get rid of the headache now
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I crunched the numbers and reported them above, he didn't appear to be intimidated by them.
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how about 1800 Kg of sugar and enough water to dissolve it all,
you can use vinegar as a catalyst for chlorination by CLO2
{CL2 might work with a stronger catalyst}
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Great handle.
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How is the disposal going? I think we all would be interested in how you all are going about it.
My idea is probably a bit to late, but for what it's worth... I don't think it has been mentioned.
If you mix equal amounts (moles or volume, same thing) of carbon monoxide gas with your Cl gas and pass it over Calcium Oxide you should get anhydrous
calcium chloride, which wouldn't pose a disposal problem anymore. So this would be completely water free.
CO could come from a horribly polluting engine (running rich?) or a normal engine's exhaust (mainly CO2) passed through a tube filled with glowing hot
charcoal, generating CO.
If I'm not mistaken, CaO is the main component in Portland cement (not concrete, but just the cement powder). You probably could substitute CaO with
other oxides, such as iron oxide.
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No brackish water here amazingly enough.
I am currently mixing the Cl2 in a solution that includes Na2CO3. There is a white-ish precipitate forming on the bottom of one of my containers. Am
I making salt? I thought about popping some corn and testing it out... but decided to ask you good gents instead!
Oh and get this, we are getting about 10 tons more Cl2 comming in. Yea.
[Edited on 29-5-2007 by SsgtHAZMAT]
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Likely, as NaCl will have the lowest solubility of the more likely compounds, provided it's warm. Look close at a bit up up, salt will have cubic
crystals. It's solubility doesn't change much with temperature while Na2CO3 does, another fairly simple test.
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Heat we have. Heck, the low yesterday was 102 deg F. During the day I suspect the solution containers reach 120 - 130 deg F.
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How about crushed limestone? You may be able to source truckloads of that locally over there in sand-land. A column filled with CaCO3 gravel in water,
with Cl entering from the bottom and optionally a slow current of water going counter current to the Cl flow. I think the reaction should look like
this:
Cl2 + CaCO3 --> Ca(ClO)2 + CO2
I suppose a reducent would be necessary to get plain old CaCl if the hypochlorite is unacceptable.
Have you tried the Cl2 plus iron scrap in water yet? I think if you have 10 metric tonnes of chlorine, you would need about 16 tonnes of iron if it
was all turned into ferric chloride. You said you have plenty of scrap around... hopefully you have a lot of oxy/acetyl to cut that much up into
manageable pieces for reaction. The reaction might be too slow, however.
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No, CaCO3 wont work, you need hydrated quicklime (Ca(OH)2).
If I had to dispose of a lot of chlorine, I would fill plastic pipes with powdered Ca(OH)2 and introduce the chlorine into it.
1kg hydrated quicklime absorbs 340g chlorine, so that an active chlorine content of 34% is reached.
You get simple bleaching powder CaCl(OCl)/Ca(OH)2. This can be stored without danger and for very long periods of time.
The advantage is that no water has to be present for the Ca(OH)2 to react with the chlorine- a dry powder reacts with the chlorine, to form another
dry powder that is a useful product.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by garage chemist
No, CaCO3 wont work, you need hydrated quicklime (Ca(OH)2).
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Then what is he doing with Na2CO3? I would think CaCO3 could be directly substituted.
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Na2CO3 reacts basic, CaCO3 doesnt.
Also, dry Na2CO3 will not react with chlorine, it must be used as a solution. CaCO3 can obviously not be used like that.
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It is in solution of about 3lbs to 500lbs of H2O.
Does the Ca(OH)2 need to be in solution or just packed in cylinders?
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I already explained it, no water is added!
The Ca(OH)2 is used in dry powder form in cylinders.
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Thanks!
Another item, the powers that be suggested that we pass the gas through a tube of charcoal, mostly from grill charcoal briquettes, I don't see how
this would do anything. Your thoughts?
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No. charcoal is pretty much inert
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It may react with Cl2 to form CCl4.
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Wouldn't it have to be ground up and maybe in solution? I thought it had to be CS3 or Methane to get carbon to bind to CL3
I have never seen charcoal used in that way, but I don't run a lab either. And stuck here you guys are about my only reference!
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The only thing you could use the charcoal for is to generate carbon monoxide, which could be mixed with your Cl in a 1:1 ratio, and passed over CaO to
give CaCl2; as I mentioned in a previous post. Other oxides would probably work too. You're right; carbon doesn't react with Cl that easy. Maybe it
was meant to absorb the Cl into activated carbon? I don't know about that... just guessing.
-Alan
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I can only imagine that they meant to absorb it on activated charcoal. That doesn't really help a lot ( though chlorine on charcoal is less tempting
as a terrorist target than cylinders).
The other problem is that barbecue charcoal isn't the same as activated charcoal.
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