On Sunday, December 07, 2003 6:20 PM, Pierce Nichols wrote:

> That only eliminates a significant aspect of the process if you are
> satisfied with 85% or so maximum concentration. In order to go higher,
> you need to freeze it anyways, and that removes the contaminants along
> with almost all of the rest of the water.

Unless one uses a fancy column crystallizer I can imagine separating the HP
mother liquor out of frozen HP crystals (centrifugation!?#) to be a messy,
time consuming and dangerous enterprize. Even in 1930-ies chemical
literature HP enrichment by freezing was considered such and impracticable
too.

I never heard of any chemical plant using (even state-of-the-art) column
crystallizers to enrich HP.
They use vacuum distillation. Without exception. Why? Because it is less
complicated. 98% HP is quite possible.
Adding a suitable drying agent to the bottom still, even 100 % HP is, but
can be a bit messy too.

JD

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pierce Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Carmack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: : Re: [ERPS] unstabilized peroxide


> On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 02:13, John Carmack wrote:
>
> > I would strongly urge anyone working on peroxide concentration to start
> > with unstabilized semiconductor grade.  The past several years have
clearly
> > shown that making your own rocket grade peroxide with consistancy in
usable
> > quantities is not as easy as many people have assumed it to be.
Removing a
> > significant aspect of the process is easily worth doubling the price of
the
> > feedstock.
>
p
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