Potassium Chlorate Cell PROBLEM (Electrolysis) please watch

[diegonikki]

nurdrage!!!!

[dosowl]

Is this nurdrage? :O

[freedomismoneyusa]

@dosowl I wanted to start the video off with "greetings fellow nerds" so bad haha

[MrAirshot]

1.get pc power supply and take the red wires.

2.buy titanium anode with mmo coating (optional)

3.build a air tight cell ,and make little hole for venting ,otherwise you will lose heat and water very fast

4.good luck!!

[crapbag1997]

you should move the anode and cathode closer for more power

[extrasonic]

Simply said, it will take forever to convert this chloride to chlorate with this power supply you are using.

To convert ALL the chloride dissolved in here for room temperature, you will need about TWO MONTHS and a half.

[extrasonic]

Your setup is very messy and rubbish. It seems you have to read some before trying to make KClO3.

To make one mole of chlorate, you need 160Ah at 100% efficiency. The lesser eff, the more Ah for 1M KClO3.

The goals in fast production are high current and efficiency. The later is harder to achieve by amateurs, but it is possible.

If you wonder how much current you need at 100% (impossible) efficiency to make crystals appear in 10 minutes for 2,5L solution - 1451 amps ;)

[extrasonic]

What happened is the following. You have made a saturated solution of KCl for a high temperature. When you've put your solution in the cell, in has cooled down, making the KCl crystallizing, fooling you that it is KClO3. So what you have extracted is KCl.

You can't form visible KClO3 for two days with 2A of current in 2,5L cell, it's impossible. It looks you don't control the pH, so your efficiency is no more than 50%. For this time, you have formed no more than 36g KClO3 in solution.

[vtogvblog]

do not boil it ,add it to room tempeture. you cant do it with boild water as it percipitates back into potassium chloirid.

[Sb01343]

You need a power supply that can run at about 5A 6V and I would recommend using a titanium cathode but you can use stainless steel and you will need a MMO anode.

All of this can be found on eBay

The reason you have so much KCL crystals in your solution is because there is not enough current to keep your solution hot so the KCL is just recrystalising so don't add so much.

Remember that the anode is positive and the cathode is negative.

[C00lman555]

haha, it sounds like you're using a synthesizer.

[megamarko94]

Your solution is to much saturated with kcl u have to much of the kcl

[giorulesallofu]

Buy a MMO titanium anode, theres a seller on ebay every coupla weeks that sells them for like $15 (a great deal) then u dont have to deal with fing carbon! (its very liberating! =D) ps dont close off the container 100%, the 2H2 and O2 will build up and u might get one hell of a bang, the "toxic gas" is Cl gas and that stuff sux... let some build (as you obviously need it) but also vent! Hope that helps!

[theitalian556]

First of all I recommend using 2 pt anodes, which will give you much more pure chlorate crystals! Which your main problem is contamination in your batches due to using a graphite and stainless steel anode/cathode. The optimal volt/amp ratio is 6-7 volt and 3 amps. When I was harvesting chlorate I used a battery charger, set at 6v 3amp I believe. Also your cell needs to be in a closed container due to deadly gases. Hope this helps

[TheMnO2]

Well those crystals are KCl, if you want chlorate with that power supply you are going to have to waite quite a while. Alternativly you could buy a computer power supply those things put out much more power and are quite cheap. Also I would suggest you get a different anode graphite it terrible. Try Co or Mn oxides on titanium it works wonders! I have produced about of Kg of KClO3 and NaClO3 from the same Ni doped Co/Mn oxide anode.

good luck!

[freedomismoneyusa]

@TheMnO2 I've had a few successful batches with this setup but having to replace the carbon anode every session is a pain. Thanks for the response

[MrRealgamer777]

i thought u had to have a stainless steal container

[freedomismoneyusa]

@MrRealgamer777 no.

[nattsurfaren]

I didn't really have an answer until I saw this video: youtube.com/watch?v=w-XbxSiDQW­Y&feature=grec_index

You probably get potassium hydroxide. The video says sodium hydroxide but I think it is the same with potassium.

[CanadianPyro1]

You need a MMO coated anode to go directly from KCl to KClO3. Otherwise, you get KOH. Alternatively, you can electrolyze a NaCl solution with standard electrodes to produce NaClO3, and recrystallize the solution with KCl to produce KClO3.