Re: Drying tranny oil

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

I didn't say it was a particularly safe way to dehydrate oil, just that it
can be used.  Obviously, some precautions need to be taken, however,
dehydration IS one of the applications of metallic sodium (and can be used
in the preparation of, e.g., absolute ethanol).  If you are looking to
remove 0.1% water in oil, I suspect that the sodium/water reaction wouldn't
be all that spectacular.. the thermal mass of the oil would keep
temperatures down.  The presumption is that you've already removed all the
separated water by filtration or other techniques, and are looking to get
that last few ppm out.

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Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: Drying tranny oil


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Parpp807-at-aol-dot-com>
>
> In a message dated 4/4/02 9:45:53 AM Central Standard Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> writes:
>
> > metallic sodium can be used to adsorb or react out the water.
> >
> Whoa there,
>
> Metallic sodium will react with water to produce heat and light , AKA, an
> explosion.
> Been there, it's fun like a Tesla coil but sodium in water liberates the
> hydrogen
> to produce sodium hydroxide. The free hydrogen usually explodes to
splatter
> everything everywhere, like the eyes. IMHO, don't do it.
>
> 2Na + 2H2O > 2NaOH + H2 + a dangerous mess
>
> Happy day,
> Ralph Zekelman
>
>
>