Benzyl alcohol to sterilise water?

[smoggiebowman]

Alright folks, any chemistry experts out there?

For reasons I'll not go into I have a reasonable supply of 'lab equipment' including milipore filters and BA at home that im thinking could be effective for water purification?

The filters make sense - they could easily be set up to drip filter water between containers but ive been wondering if the BA at a concentration of something like 1% would be safe? I know the stuff is approved for use in foodstuffs but im not clever enough to figure out at what levels...

Can anyone help?

[ForgeCorvus]

Do you know the pore size of the filters ?

If it was me, I'd rather be taking stuff out of my drinking water then putting it in.

However, my brother studied Bio-Chemistry so I'll ask him about BA

[smoggiebowman]

Its been a while since they've been out of the cupboard but 45 micron springs to mind?

What got me thinking was reading somewhere about using bleach to purify water.... I thought BA sounded preferable.

Cool, thanks 8)

[ForgeCorvus]

45 microns is huge !!
My filter is rated at 0.4 microns absolute

[smoggiebowman]

45 microns is huge !!
My filter is rated at 0.4 microns absolute

Theyre .45 not 45 - thats what I get for not actually checking lol.

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[smoggiebowman]

Sorr, should have read .45

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[ForgeCorvus]

Other thing to remember is bleach breaks down over time....Not sure if BA does or what it becomes