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  Cleaning equipment after mixing hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) based gel?

  Posted by Anonymous on May 26, 2016 at 12:45 pm

  Does anyone know how a mixing container /drum gets cleaned after batch mixing a HEC (hydroxyethyl-cellulose) gel?
  Is there a chemical way of dissolving the HEC gel and flushing the container?
  I’m specifically referring to say 100 - 200 liter containers that cannot be washed manually with water - and not small lab or prototype setups.

  Anonymous replied 8 years, 6 months ago 1 Member · 2 Replies

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  Bobzchemist

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  May 26, 2016 at 5:00 pm

  Generally speaking, you need to find out what a gum is not tolerant of (pH, electrolytes, alcohol, etc.) and spray the tank with it, then rinse that off with water.

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  Anonymous

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  June 2, 2016 at 5:46 am

  understood thank you.
  will post back what i found worked for HEC.

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