StillSmart

Is it really as easy as that?
Bottle: spirit + carbon, tip, tip, ... tip, freezer (24h), paper filter?
Cool trick

Dynamic wrote:Is it really as easy as that?
Bottle: spirit + carbon, tip, tip, ... tip, freezer (24h), paper filter?
Cool trick

Yes it is.
To anyone owning a more sophisticated filter it would be hard work, but to a fit young person it is just a bit of fun.
And it is quite fun to watch the carbon particles fall,knowing that they are working.

Robert.

Easydrinker wrote:Simpler/more basic is the way I first carbon filtered.
Almost fill a glass bottle with a spirit <45% .Add a few spoons of carbon.
Keep two such bottles where you will pass them several times a day,at the sides of the chair where you watch TV from could be good.
Simply invert (tip upside down) several times a day.
After a few days, lay diagonally in a freezer for 24 hours before carefully pouring off through a filter paper of choice.
Exercise and alcohol, win,win

Robert

Can't I just tip/invert it every 2 minutes for 2 hours?
I hate waiting, but I know it's important for the quality.

I don't know the answer to that,but your impatience made me smile.
Maybe you will be the one to advise us on that.

Robert.

This is almost literally translated from google translate, my apologies. In Dutch I can explain it easily: p

Well, as I learned in chemistry class. it's all about contact surface. If the carbon moves continuously through the liquid, it is several times faster than 1 time per hour in order to rotate, for 24 hours.
A paver should work best.

I'm right, right?

You lost me here

"A paver should work best."

You are right on the rest.

Robert.

Paver

Do you mean carbon blocks instead of powder?

Activated carbon for chemichal filtering (heads removal for instance) requires contact time. The heads molecules actually soak into the pores inthe carbon and are trapped. Like water soaking into kitchen paper.

Its not a physical filtration where the stuff being filtered out sticks to the surface of the filter media, as in a filter bed, so by the time the liquidgets to the bottom of the bed it is clean.

Thats why the method mentioned above works. The heads are dispersed throughout the sample of product and need to pass through it many times to soak up those heads.

The carbon can be re-activated by cleaning out the heads, but it is a smelly (VERRY) process.