Carbon Regeneration

[MIKE T]

Any body ever cooked there used carbon in the oven to regenerate. If so, at what temp? How long? May be I'm barking at the moon!
mike :shock:

[kate]

if so that would be great. at $9.99 a bag every two weeks i would love to reuse it. :D

[doobie]

The only real way to re-activate activated carbon is do what was done to it in the first place - heat it to at least 500 deg. C (1000 deg F). Industrial reactivators use more like 750 deg. C. So forget it unless you have access to a kiln.

[kate]

:cry:

[MIKE T]

Yes I have a gas kiln THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!
mike

[jonb]

Didn't TFH have a question just like this in the latest issue? IIRC, the answer was a resounding "NO".

[doobie]

Most major manufacturers of activated carbon also reactivate carbon since they already have the facilities for it. Lots of water treatment plants reactivate their own.

[stony]

I take all of my carbon to the communitie college and place it into their kelm in their pottery class room. The teacher does not mind and I split some of my carbon with him for his reef.



~stony~

[thomas1102]

hmmmm :?: . i might have to reunite with my old art teacher.

[squaregrouper]

It takes ALOT of heat to regenerate carbon... We (a large public aquarium) throw ours away, its not cost efficient to regenerate carbon