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question about ethanol synthesis
Not for drinking btw just want some pure ethanol in my stockroom.
CaC2+H2O-->ethyne
C---C + HCL (in excess) -> chloroethane
Chloroethane + NaOH --> ethanol + NaCl
I have to work out the ratios of the reactions, but I was wondering if this was fesiable? Also, I would purify the ethanol by means of distilation.
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Why not ferment sugar? I wouldnt want to drink something that once had HCl and NaOH mixed into it  You also might risk blowing yourself up with the acetylene
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Ethyne has a triple bond, so when you add 1 mol of HCl to 1 mol of ethyne you get 1 mol of chloroethene, not chloroethane. Furthur reaction then
produces dichloroethane.
If you want ethanol this route, you need to start from ethene.
You have to decide what you want the ethanol for and how pure it needs to be (mainly from methanol and water).
For sheer ease of production I would also recommend fermentation if it needs to be substantially methanol free.
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Ethanol Synthesis
Try using a Pallidium catalyst with a ketone(or diol) to get an alcohol
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Hi there,
I haven't post there for year or more,
Sorry for digging up an old thread, but I've got a question on making synthetic ethanol.
Is it possible in a home - laboratory to synthesise C2H5OH from ethylene and H2O steam ?
C2H4 + H2O --catalyst---> C2H5OH
I've heard about H3PO4 beeing catalyst but it had to be mistake, H3PO4 helps to destroy ethanol to ethene.
It should be an electrophilic catalyst...
Has anyone any info on this ????
I think that the reaction is quite interesting, maybe administrators would make a new thread and stick my post to it  ...
And finally what about making ethylene from plastic parts, bootles, and others stuff made of PE (poliethylene) or LDPE/HDPE ???
[Edited on 5-6-2005 by heksogen]
[Edited on 5-6-2005 by heksogen]
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Any catalyst that works for a reaction in one direction will also work for the reverse reaction. H3PO4 would work, but it's easier to make beer
and distill it.
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Distill
Unionised, I couldn't agree more with your last post. Distillation works great ! Why bother
with any synthetic methods when Nature's little chemists will do it for you !
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heksogen
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LOL, I don't want to drink this
I just think of making technical grade alkohol
My neighbour runs an environment firm which take taxes from firms which pollute the air or water with toxic or harmfull materials. Now he also take
different kinds of plastics - he take money for waste disposal, nowadays he take 10tons of poliethylene a month but he can take even several times
more. He earns 15groszy (5 american cents or 4euro-cents) for every kilogram of PE and he doesn't know what to do with theese plastics - they
just lie in magazine. I talked with him and suggested starting making ethanol - firstly test it in lab-scale, then run little production, end if that
would give money , build a factory  
I don't know if my idea is good but it sounds nice... I've heard about factory making ethanol from ethylene from petroleum and using ethanol
as an additive to petrol...
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I don't think polyethylene can be depolymerized to ethylene.
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An idea I had for making rather pure ethanol was to simply take ethyl acetate and react it with NaOH. This will give sodium acetate and pretty much
anhydrous ethanol if you start with anhydrous ethyl acetate.
Oh, and the distill the ethanol from the sodium acetate. This should be pretty obvious but I'm editting my post to put it in anyway.
[Edited on 9-6-2005 by a123x]
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docberto: yes it can, steam can do it, see Rosco and neutrino's posts here, near the end of the thread.
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[Edited on 9-6-2005 by sparkgap]
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"An idea I had for making rather pure ethanol was to simply take ethyl acetate and react it with NaOH. This will give sodium acetate and pretty
much anhydrous ethanol if you start with anhydrous ethyl acetate"
Oh no it won't. You will get the Claisen condensation of the ester.
If you adfd lots of water you will get alcohol and you can clean that up by distilation.
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Polyethylene doesn't depolymerize. Quote from Praktikum Polymer Science/Polymerisationstechnik: Thermal degradation of polymers (SS 2002)
| Quote: | | Polymers that don´t depolymerize, like polyethylene, generally decompose by thermal stress... |
If one want's lab grade 99% ethanol: fermentation, distillation to 96%, and molecular sieve for >99%.
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Digging around a little, I found that it actually does—but not how we thought. From the Wikipedia, we have this:
| Quote: | | Polyethylene usually degrades by random scission - that is by a random breakage of the linkages (bonds) that hold the atoms of the polymer together.
When this polymer is heated above 450 Celsius it becomes a complex mixture of molecules of various sizes which resemble gasoline.
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Back to the drawing board, I guess.
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I'd just ferment. A mixture of 2L molasses, 450g brown sugar, 8L warm water and 5g yeast fermented for 20 days (with a trap to prevent oxygen
from getting in) Distill it 3 times. Then go with the sieve or even use sodium wire (empty tomato paste can with a hole punched in bottom works well
when making Na wire) to dry. Or you could just go buy a bottle of the cheapest vodka you can find...
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And then there are those of us who know better than to drink strong bases...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by sanity gone
Not for drinking btw just want some pure ethanol in my stockroom.
I don't think he wanted to drink it. |
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I was referring to your sodium wire idea.
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question about ethanol synthesis.....
Are you limited to the substances you can use for making ethanol?? Because the process you have stated is a very tedious way of getting ethanol. Why
not try other simpler methods such as fermentation or reduction of acetaldehyde or perhaps hydration of ethene??
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On a slightly off topic note,
Stores sell trichloroethene as a degreaser. Do you think that might be converted to tetrachloroethane with HCl? And if that's possible whether or
not that could be converted to ethanetetra-ol? I don't think that would be stable so what would that then dehydrate into? ethane-dial? (dunno
english nomenclature too well  I mean H(OC)-(CO)H)
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Nifty idea get ethanol from degreasers .
A easy way would give ethanol from ethylcarbonate.
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Ethyl Acetate
If one could get ethanol from ethyl acetate then maybe we could convert the solvent grade denatured ethyl alcohol to ethyl acetate. Then convert that
back to ethyl alcohol without most of the denaturants.
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"If one could get ethanol from ethyl acetate..."
Saponification anyone?
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But i don't understand why do you have to go to such lengths just to get ethanol?? Why can't simpler methods be used instead?? If it is just
to get ethanol, i recommend using the easier, more 'conventional' methods. Unless...unless you are limited to certain chemicals given. If it
is for fun, then saponification will then be quite a good idea.
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Exactly what "simpler methods" or "easier, more 'conventional' methods" did you have in mind?
Not everyone has yeast. Also, not everyone has a good source of legal alcohol (denatured and/or otherwise). Maybe it is just for the fun of it.
What's wrong with seeking more ways to skin a cat? That's how (mad) science progresses!
The easiest route for one is not necessarily the best for the other. Sometimes the more tortuous route may be more appropriate with his/her given(s).
Keep that in mind.
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