Pump for Buchner funnel

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I was wanting to know what pumps you guys are using for your Buchner funnels with flammable liquids. I have a couple Hardware factory store 12 cfm pumps that come with their ovens. Will those work safe? If not have any of you used a handpump with positive results? Thanks

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Hand pumps don’t work…u need continue flow

A water aspirated vacuum the you hook up to the sink…or hose pipe, no motor for fuems to get to…that works for small filtering…but if ur doing large scale I think you can get large cold trap for those pumps but I’m not sure there

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12 cfm is pretty hefty. You need to throttle that thing, but I’m using both a 2.3 cfm diaphragm pump and a normal 5 cfm vane pump with my buchner. Just make sure you’re not pulling to hard.

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Welch wob-l diaphram pumps

They work perfectly. And I use these for my 5l rotovap as well

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I have a 50l Buchner coming from China (they call it a vacuum nutsch filter) with a diaphragm pump and vacuum regulator.

What would be an appropriate vacuum level to set my regulator to for a filter this large?

https://future4200.com/t/is-buchner-filter-the-best-for-filtering-close-to-50liters/6856/25?u=chimeraleaf

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I’d surmise that the pump they give you just go full blast. You want a proper vac so that the filter really gets sucked down. I had an issue when I connected a 3/8 manifold between my roto and filter. Little did I know that the inside was 1/4, this lead to the paper not sealing properly. It took me a second to find that strangle point. So full vac is what I recommend.

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You need steady vac not deep vac, gast and a few ither diaphragm pumps is what i use on my karge bel art and they wirk great and easy to rebuild. Deoending on your budget and volume you do.

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Are the pumps you guys using ignition proof?

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Not that I know. The diaphragm pump is safer to use, has no oil.

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Are you still using the 50L vacuum filters? I’m curious what kind of flow rate you’re able to pull on that? Thinking about getting one but not sure

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diaphragm vacuum pumps

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I’d say I can filter a 5 gallon bucket in about 15 min when doing a room temp winterization of crude in methanol, faster when doing a second cold methanol winterization over celite 545.

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if you wanna go the extra mile.there are ones with PTFE coated insides