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Maximum NaClO % from brine electrolysis
Hello,
does anyone know what is the maximum/reasonable percentage of sodium hypochlorite produced by a concentrated NaCl (aq.) electrolysis using AA
batteries?
What could one expect? How much NaCl is too much or too little to make a strong NaClO solution?
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You'd need several AA batts. in parallel to produce reasonable yields --- ensure low temperatures to prevent disproportionation to chlorate!
And your electrolyte should be saturated at all times for efficiency's sake . . .
Large graphite gouging-rods make ideal electrodes, BTW!
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Which voltage should I need exactly? Is there any page I can look at for getting ideas?
Also by low temperatures do you mean room temperature (25°C) or lower?
If I saturate water with NaCl at the beginning, do I have to keep adding it as it reacts to form NaClO?
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Your can get up to around 20% if you do it carefully but probably not without a heap of AA batteries! Use a Dc source like a battery charger.
Search this site for hypochlorite. If you try it, keep the temperature of the electrolyte low.
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Thanks for the input. I was looking for something gaugeable in order to use NaClO as a reagent, which would need approximately knowing its
concentration to be more than 5-10% found in household bleach.
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You could always bubble chlorine into a cold hydroxide solution to get a salt/hypochlorite mixture.
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But messing with so large amounts of chlorine is not good. Especially not for an amateur chemist.
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Starting on the very small-scale should be innocuous enough?
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Thanks for your reply.
I'm interested in the electrolysis process though, as it seems less messy.
Also if I'd go for chlorine production, I'd get it only from bleach and HCl, which given what I'd like to achieve, seems pretty pointless.
Is there any particular voltage, NaCl concentration or anything else which could tell me roughly
which percentage of NaClO is there after stopping electrolysis?
Or should I go as (example) performing electrolysis of a saturated NaCl solution at 10°C at 9 volts for 1 hour, then measure the density and refer to
an aqueous sodium hypochlorite specific gravity chart to know how much NaClO is there?
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| Quote: | | I'm interested in the electrolysis process though, as it seems less messy. |
It ain't nececelery so!
You can use manganese dioxide, potassium permanganate or even, if you've nothing else, lead dioxide, to oxidise HCl!
The process can actually be more quantifiable than anodic oxidation of NaCl.
The product, though, will be an equilibrium mixture of NaCl and NaClO!
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Quote: Originally posted by hissingnoise  | | Quote: | | I'm interested in the electrolysis process though, as it seems less messy. |
It ain't nececelery so!
You can use manganese dioxide, potassium permanganate or even, if you've nothing else, lead dioxide, to oxidise HCl!
The process can actually be more quantifiable than anodic oxidation of NaCl.
The product, though, will be an equilibrium mixture of NaCl and NaClO!
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There's a lovely thread on chlorine generation by len in prepublication. TCCA is the best choice for chlorine generation and has worked smoothly for
me when making high strength hypochlorite solutions before.
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Yeahhh, but chlorine is one of my least favourite smells ─ don't like bleach either . . .
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Probably the definitive thread!
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