You've got this and can make your own Activated Charcoal...Remember Doing is learning, learning is experience!!!...The Lemon (acid) is what activates your charcoal by removing ash!!!
Activated Charcoal is a form of carbon processed to have sma…
You've got this and can make your own Activated Charcoal...Remember Doing is learning, learning is experience!!!...The Lemon (acid) is what activates your charcoal by removing ash!!!
Activated Charcoal is a form of carbon processed to have small, low-volume pores that increase the surface area available for adsorption or chemical reactions. It can be created from hardwood or even Banana Peels and coconut shells and can be used in many scenarious. In this video I will show you How To Make Activated Charcoal at home.
🌟 Ingredients needed:
► Hardwood (Carbon Medium)
► Firewood
► Kindling
► Metal Bucket
► Sheet metal (for Metal bucket lid)
► Small Fire pit
► fire source (lighter, matches, etc.)
► Lemons or lemon juice
► Filtered or distilled water
► Container w/lid for storing the charcoal
► Something to stir with (I used a wisk)
► Parchment Paper
► Oven or Dehydrater
🌟 How To Make Activated Charcoal:
► Place the metal bucket in the center of the fire pit.
► Add your hardwood, then place your firewood and kindling around the bucket. Place sheet metal lid on bucket and
set on fire.
► Feed the firepit more firewood as it burns, until 4-6 hours has elapsed (cooking times may vary based on how much wood you have and how small the pieces are. The smaller the better).
► Once your charcoal is finished cooling off you can use a blender or coffee grinder to pulverize it into a fine powder.
► Place the powder into a container, then pour a mixture of filtered water and lemon juice (3:1) into the container and mix well. Make sure to avoid having pockets of dry powder.
► Place lid on container and set aside for 24 hrs, then rinse all of the lemon juice out with your remaining filtered water.
► Place on a backing sheet with parchment paper on the bottom and bake at 200 degrees fairenheit for 2-3 hours.
► When it is completely dry place it back in your container with a silica packet (if you have one) in order to keep all of the moisture out of the activated charcoal.
🌟 Activated Charcoal Uses:
► Many (such as toothpaste, supplements, soap, makeup, water purification, air purification, deoderant, etc.)
🌟 Note: Banana Peels, and coconut shells can also be used as a carbon/charcoal medium to replace hardwood to create activated charcoal. You can also use a large food can, or go even bigger by putting the carbon medium into a 55 gallon steel drum w/lid into a bonfire. Just make sure to create a little bit of ventilation so that the gases don't make the drum explode. Just setting the lid on top would-likely- be sufficient. Adjust cook times accordingly through trial and error.
