If you are engaged in preparation of wine or other alcoholic beverages at home, then for you there has to be relevant a question of purification of alcohol. In domestic winemaking held and the way of purification of alcohol by filtration through charcoal holds a specific place. Now activated carbon – means very available, and a way which will be described below, most available and effective. Now about everything one after another.
Instruction
1. Purifying alcohol by means of activated carbon, consider that the stronger alcohol holds in itself impurity, than above its degree. Therefore it is diluted approximately to 45 wasps. Water at the same time use soft. Spring water will be the best choice. There are two main ways of purification of alcohol with activated carbon. The filter, whose case is necessary for the first of them you can make of the plastic capacity (1.5-2 l). Just lay on a case bottom the gauze package and the filter is ready.
2. Before filling of the filter with activated carbon carefully wash coal with water. After you miss via this filter crude alcohol for the first time, you receive the alcohol which is still containing small particles of coal and having darkish color at the exit. Further it needs to be sent for repeated cleaning.
3. Before repeated cleaning replace the fulfilled activated carbon in the filter new. What more you will pass alcohol via the filter with activated carbon, especially pure alcohol at you will turn out at the exit.
4. Also quite often use other method allowing to purify alcohol from fusel oils by means of the same activated carbon. Fill powder of activated carbon in the container with the crude alcohol, then carefully shake up mix. Coal take in calculation 50 g on alcohol liter.
5. Several times a day with frequency about 3 h shake a large bottle with alcohol, mixing its contents then leave capacity quietly to be defended within one or one and a half weeks. Having waited for a necessary interval of time, filter alcohol through several layers of filter paper or a usual gauze.