How To Deal With The Waste Acetylene Gas In Lab?

[lisaner36]

Now I am doing some experiments with acetylene.But I don't know how to deal with the waste acetylene gas.

Thanks for your advise~ :)

[CraigD]

Welcome to hypography, Evil Angel! Please feel free to start a thread in the introductions forum to tell us all a bit about yourself, your interests, etc.

Now I am doing some experiments with acetylene.But I don't know how to deal with the waste acetylene gas.

Thanks for your advise~ :)

Acetylene isn’t very toxic or violently flammable at normal room air pressure and typical concentration from welding/cutting of experimenting leakage, so I’d say just keep your workspace well-ventilated, which you should already be doing. I suspect the stuff it’s usually mixed with in a storage tank is as or more dangerous to your health than the C₂H₂ gas is.

 

PS: Whatever you do, don’t compress pure acetylene! Without something like acetone, it’s explosively reactive when compressed!