Using activated carbon powder

[raisins]

But the good news is you don't have to reactivate the carbon. You only need to de-adsorb it. That can be done with much less heat. An oven at low temperature might work.

Where are you getting this information that removing molecules adsorbed to carbon can be done at low temperatures? And that this is somehow different than recharging?

Reactivation of granular activated carbon - Carbotecnia

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[jsh909]

I’ve mentioned this a couple other places, it’s prolly fair to say I’m a pretty skeptical fella, but had three encounters this year w Scentlok that have increased my confidence in it. But to continue to reduce odor I need to deal with my pack, and maybe the Jx3. Wonder how brushing the powder on and then leaf blowing the excess off might work. I think I’ll try it on the pack. What leads me down this road is a swirly river valley. That’s where the deer daylight the most, it’s kinda where I need to be.

Way off topic, love your avatar. Been wanting to say something for a while, I guess today is the day. Lateralus is my favorite album and they are my favorite band.

 

[BackSpasm]

one of these and a puff or two up the old corn shoot and deer will never smell a single fart again

 

[DanD]

Why wouldn’t you be able to heat it up to deadsorb just like Scentlok clothing? I was thinking of seeing some into little sachets (old bed linens) and keeping it in my boots, totes, etc. After a while I hoped to just throw them in the dryer with my SL gear when I deadsorb it.

I saw a video when someone was reusing it for an aquarium by heating it up in a skillet. IIRC he said he could do it 3 or 4 times. It was just YouTube so no authority, I’ll try to find it and post it here.

 

[goodfelg]

I've got some pre-made activated carbon odor reducing rolls in my upstairs hunting tub. They seem to keep some of the smell down especially in my boots. The instructions that came with them says to put in the sun for a few hours every month

 

[DanD]

@goodfelg does that seem to have an effect and let them adsorb more odor?

 

[Allegheny Tom]

Next question:
Would O3 have any "recharging" effect on well used carbon?

 

[goodfelg]

Hard to say, I've only had them about 6 weeks so I've only done it once. I shoved one in each boot, one in each of the giant zip-top hunting bags my clothes are in and 2 more in the tub between layers. I have noticed that my boots, are not the overall odor when I open the tub (actually I don't notice any odors but I'm not a deer) so I guess they are doing something. Even if they only last for a season before being replaced they were inexpensive

 

[OSUTodd]

Where are you getting this information that removing molecules adsorbed to carbon can be done at low temperatures? And that this is somehow different than recharging?

Reactivation of granular activated carbon - Carbotecnia

Once activated carbon is exhausted, it can be recycled through different reactivation methods. Learn more about these methods here.

www.carbotecnia.info

I have read that in multiple places. I think it is in the sticky threads on this forum. John Eberhart has said it in multiple videos and interviews I have seen.

My understanding is that technical reactivation is an actual molecular change in the carbon, whereas de-adsorption, what would happen in typical dryer heat, is just a releasing of the trapped odor molecules so that it is ready to attract new odor molecules.

On the Scentlok website, they use the term reactivation, when they really mean de-adsorption, but they're just using the terminology that their customers use.

 

[Cajunyankee]

Next question:
Would O3 have any "recharging" effect on well used carbon?

Yes. Ozone will oxidize any organic compounds (aka, scent producing molecules) that are bonded to the carbon sites of activated carbon. As the molecules are oxidized, they are driven off leavening the original site reactivated. It is actually the best way to reactivate carbon. Heat is just the cheapest way to reactivate it on an industrial scale and most people don’t have ozone machines at home.

 

[Gator]

I bought some of this last year. It's a granular and not a true powder. It came with several sachets. I filled each one and it goes into my tubs. When I get back to the truck after each hunt my boots ALWAYS go back into the tubs but I've often wondered if the interior of the boots (odor) can contaminate the exterior of the boot when it's in that enclosed environment of a sealed tub. So I drop a sachet inside each boot for the ride back home. At that point, the boots immediately go on the boot dryer, and I do leave the charcoal sachets in the boots while on the dryer. My idea behind keeping sachets in the boots while the boot dryer is to also dry the charcoal of any moisture they may have absorbed. Not sure it matters to do that but I can say with certainty that busts from my gound odor are just about zero. As long as I don't brush against anything above my boots deer pay little, or no attention to where I've walked. It's opened up a lot of stand options that I used to write off because of reluctance to cross deer trails.
I understand how charcoal works but I guess the microscopic pores eventually "fill up"??
That's the concept with scent lok and why they say to reactivate it in a hot dryer. So I wonder...if the granular charcoal can be reactivated by placing it on a cookie sheet in a hot oven? Thoughts?

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I just ordered some to try.