{"id":149,"date":"2015-03-11T18:45:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T18:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/chemsustainability\/?p=149"},"modified":"2016-07-29T14:42:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:42:48","slug":"branching-out-other-solvents-than-acetone-to-recycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/chemsustainability\/2015\/03\/11\/branching-out-other-solvents-than-acetone-to-recycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Branching out &#8211; Other solvents than Acetone to recycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are looking into other solvents to recycle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately we would desire the capablility to recycle Petroleum Ether. Depending on the lab staff requirements per day we can use anywhere between 0-10 winchesters of Petroleum Ether. This is a staggering amount of waste, especially considering the vast majority of it is used for column chromatography as a mixed eluent with Ethyl Acetate.<\/p>\n<p>This combination of solvents is perfect for recycling due to the varying differences in boiling point between Ethyl Acetate (77.1) and Petroleum ether (30-40). Other combinations with\u00a0 Diethyl Ether (34.6) are not really viable.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately at this current time we don&#8217;t have the capability to recycle Petroleum Ether due to the fact that the manufacturer recommended the use of a chiller. Fingers crossed we may be able to aquire this facility in future, and decrease our waste production further.<\/p>\n<p>There are a list of pre programmed solvents that can be recycled not just Acetone, if you want to find out more, contact me at dw10g10@soton.ac.uk, and we can look into facilitating your requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are looking into other solvents to recycle&#8230; Ultimately we would desire the capablility to recycle Petroleum Ether. Depending on the lab staff requirements per day we can use anywhere between 0-10 winchesters of Petroleum Ether. This is a staggering amount of waste, especially considering the vast majority of it is used for column chromatography &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/chemsustainability\/2015\/03\/11\/branching-out-other-solvents-than-acetone-to-recycle\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[916062],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recycling-and-reusing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/chemsustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/chemsustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/chemsustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/chemsustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/chemsustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/chemsustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/chemsustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/chemsustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/chemsustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/chemsustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}