Making Ferric Chloride
Making Ferric Chloride
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I have a water filtration plant with the primary purpose of removing 50ppm of Fe2+ from ground water. We utiliswe approx
10000-200000 litres per day
I am looking for a use of the waste product and was considering Ferric chloride, and was curious as to how it is made - as maybe we could alter the process to achieve both the removal from the ground water and produce a by product for other purposes.
Regards
10000-200000 litres per day
I am looking for a use of the waste product and was considering Ferric chloride, and was curious as to how it is made - as maybe we could alter the process to achieve both the removal from the ground water and produce a by product for other purposes.
Regards





RE: Making Ferric Chloride
Does your facility have a use for the ferric chloride, or are you intending to sell it? If it's the latter, forget about it. It's too easy to make ferric chloride from old Camaros and hydrochloric acid to bother using your filter cake...
Is the 10k-200k litres the amount of water you're processing? If so, your 50 ppm Fe+2 doesn't amount to much.
RE: Making Ferric Chloride
The 100k to 200k litres should equal 5-10kg of per day
We are purely oxidising and filtering - not other chems going in.
I would like to use the FeCl it in our waste water stream.
RE: Making Ferric Chloride
RE: Making Ferric Chloride
To disolve with HCL would be a waste of time, however I was thinking that I might use Chlorine to precipitate the iron out of solution in the treatment plant rather than using oxygen.
The use of chlorine may assist the quality of our treated water.
Do you believe that may work
RE: Making Ferric Chloride