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Glycerin from Candle-Works Sweet Water: Cap's Process
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Glycerin from Candle-Works Sweet Water: Cap's Process

The sweet water washed out of lime soap in the stearin candle works holds the fat's glycerin, with lime and fatty traces. Cap's process, given in Muspratt's Chemistry (1860), turns it into glycerin: the lime is thrown down as sulfate with sulfuric acid, the liquor is boiled down out of contact with the air, neutralised with chalk, filtered, cleared with bone black and concentrated to a colourless syrup of about 51° Twaddell.
Hejuru
Several days

Amabwiriza

1

Boil down the sweet water

Reduce the glycerin water drawn off from the lime soap by evaporation over a fire.

Ibikoresho by'iyi ntambwe:

Amazi ya girisiroliAmazi ya girisiroli1 as required
Amakara y'amabuye ya bitumineAmakara y'amabuye ya bitumine1 as required

Ibikoresho bikenewe:

Isafuriya yo kumishaIsafuriya yo kumisha
Itanura ry'amatafariItanura ry'amatafari
2

Find how much lime it holds

Measure out a known volume, precipitate its lime with oxalate of ammonia, collect the precipitate, dry it, burn it and weigh it. From that, work out how much sulfuric acid will just combine with all the lime.

Ibikoresho bikenewe:

Okisalati ya amoniyumuOkisalati ya amoniyumu
Urupapuro rwo KuyungururaUrupapuro rwo Kuyungurura
Ikirahure cy'Ibumba Rirwanya UmuriroIkirahure cy'Ibumba Rirwanya Umuriro
Umunzani w'ibiroUmunzani w'ibiro
3

Throw the lime down with sulfuric acid

Add that amount of sulfuric acid. Sulfate of lime falls. Let it settle and decant the clear liquid into another vessel.

Ibikoresho by'iyi ntambwe:

Asidi ya sulifurikeAsidi ya sulifurike1 as required

Ibikoresho bikenewe:

IgikonjoIgikonjo
Amadarubindi yo Kwirinda IbinyabutabireAmadarubindi yo Kwirinda Ibinyabutabire
Uturindantoki tw'ikawusuUturindantoki tw'ikawusu
4

Boil it out of contact with air, to 14° Twaddell

Boil the liquid in a covered vessel, kept stirred, so the air cannot reach it. The boiling drives off volatile fatty impurities and the liquid loses colour and smell. At 14° Twaddell let it cool: more sulfate of lime falls.

Ibikoresho by'iyi ntambwe:

Amakara y'amabuye ya bitumineAmakara y'amabuye ya bitumine1 as required

Ibikoresho bikenewe:

IgikonjoIgikonjo
Ikiyiko kinini cy'igitiIkiyiko kinini cy'igiti
Itanura ry'amatafariItanura ry'amatafari
Igipima ubwuzuzanye bw'amaziIgipima ubwuzuzanye bw'amazi
5

Neutralise any excess acid with chalk

Test with litmus. If the liquid is acid, add powdered chalk or limestone a little at a time until it is neutral.

Ibikoresho by'iyi ntambwe:

Karubonate ya Kalisiyumu - Ibuye Ry'Isarabwayi RimenaguritseKarubonate ya Kalisiyumu - Ibuye Ry'Isarabwayi Rimenaguritse1 as required

Ibikoresho bikenewe:

Urupapuro rwa litimusiUrupapuro rwa litimusi
Ikiyiko kinini cy'igitiIkiyiko kinini cy'igiti
6

Boil on to 37.5° and filter

Boil again out of contact with air, stirring actively, to 37.5° Twaddell. Collect the sulfate and carbonate of lime on a filter.

Ibikoresho by'iyi ntambwe:

Amakara y'amabuye ya bitumineAmakara y'amabuye ya bitumine1 as required

Ibikoresho bikenewe:

IgikonjoIgikonjo
Ikiyiko kinini cy'igitiIkiyiko kinini cy'igiti
Itanura ry'amatafariItanura ry'amatafari
Igipima ubwuzuzanye bw'amaziIgipima ubwuzuzanye bw'amazi
AkayunguruzoAkayunguruzo
7

Reduce to 49°, filtering again if needed

Evaporate the filtrate, keeping it well agitated, until on cooling it marks 49° Twaddell. If more sulfate of lime falls, filter again.

Ibikoresho by'iyi ntambwe:

Amakara y'amabuye ya bitumineAmakara y'amabuye ya bitumine1 as required

Ibikoresho bikenewe:

Isafuriya yo kumishaIsafuriya yo kumisha
Itanura ry'amatafariItanura ry'amatafari
Igipima ubwuzuzanye bw'amaziIgipima ubwuzuzanye bw'amazi
AkayunguruzoAkayunguruzo
8

Clear it through bone black

Pass it through washed animal charcoal (bone black) to take out the tinge. It comes through as a colourless solution of about 45° Twaddell.

Ibikoresho bikenewe:

Umukara w'amagufwaUmukara w'amagufwa
AkayunguruzoAkayunguruzo
9

Concentrate to 51° Twaddell

Concentrate it carefully, driving off about a quarter of its weight of water, until the syrupy liquid reads 51.2° Twaddell. Store it closed.

Ibikoresho by'iyi ntambwe:

Amakara y'amabuye ya bitumineAmakara y'amabuye ya bitumine1 as required

Ibikoresho bikenewe:

Isafuriya yo kumishaIsafuriya yo kumisha
Itanura ry'amatafariItanura ry'amatafari
Igipima ubwuzuzanye bw'amaziIgipima ubwuzuzanye bw'amazi
10

Cap's readings as specific gravity

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History and honest limits

Muspratt (1860) gives Cap's process alongside the older lead-plaster method (olive oil and litharge, the lead removed with hydrogen sulfide). He quotes Wilson that Cap's glycerin, though better than the old product, is not absolutely pure. Bone black is used here as a filter that clears the colour; it is not part of the glycerin. The Twaddell-to-specific-gravity conversion is the standard definition of the scale.

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