Hi,
I am mechanical engineer but need to do some work with chemicals. Since, i am not chemical engineer, i am very far for procedures here, and i need some helps.
• I want to remove mono-methyl ether hydroquinone, MEHQ, inhibitor from 10 ml Methyl-acrylate MA monomer.
• The MA bottle contains >%99 MA, and about 100 ppm MEHQ.
• I read from an article that they did by washing MA three times with 0.1N aq sodium hydroxide NaOH to remove the MEHQ. I also read other sources, they use either column chromatography (I guess this option is very slow procedure for MA ), or washing.
Since i am not chemist, I don't know exactly how to perform this "washing" operation.
For example, MA is "liquid", aq solution of NaOH is also "liquid".
How you can wash liquid with a liquid ?
I guess they will become mixture of 2 liquids.
But as i know both MEHQ and NaOH are solid particles floating within liquid.
So, does NaOH and MEHQ subside as soon as both liquid is mixed ?
So, Can someone describe me the procedure and physics behind ?
Then, i can have more sense about how to perform this action.
Thanks.
Edited by koraltptp, 29 August 2017 - 11:55 AM.