Nitrous Oxide Gas Absorber

Invite some local college students over to an open house.

Have you thought about containment or even capture and sell to the students mentioned above.

Activated charcoal is another common filter material that is readily available but I am not sure how it would work on nitrous oxide gas.

BAB.

Try Purafil..

You can buy zeolite here:

http://www.bearriverzeolite.com/

Or, for small quantities, an aquarium supply retailer:

http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2754015

Try looking under "molecular sieve".

Tad

Why are you exposing anything to 20 ppm NO? Exhaust to a scubber. Seperate the effected zone. ENGINEER THE PROCESS>>>>>

chemistry is your friend. Nirous oxide will ionize in water allowing free H+ ions, it's called nitric acid. Some NaOH mixed while monitoring pH should solve it.

You can't get gases out of a water solution with zeolites. You can boil the solution or pull an absolute vacuum to get gases out, but I believe the nitrous oxides are dissosociating in an acid base reaction. which you see as bleaching.

Vicini,

Sorry to correct you, but nitrous oxide (N2O) does not form nitric acid with water. You are thinking of nitrogen dioxide (NO2).

The term "absolute vacuum" means a complete absence of anything. It is not attainable in the real world, and certainly not over a liquid.

Bleaching is an example of an oxidation reaction, not acid-base.

Tad

the poster is not a chemist as per his other posts. I gave lay answers, you know the difference between acid wash and bleaching, but does the poster? Yo belive the poster is absolutely correct in his N2O vesus NO3-- ???? They are making a brine, where in the world are they getting a N2O. Heck in my business we just call oxides of nitrogen NOx, because we can't controll the reactions. The mixture will combine with water and make nitric acid that will remove color from certain dyes.