Hi Kat!
Yep, they can be baked...I bake mine at 125° C for four hours. Also, we have two of those McDry self-regenerating dry dessicant cabinets, and the regeneration cycle the cabinets use is once every 6-hours, the controller will heat the Zeolite dessicant to 150° C for 45-minutes, then cool it back down for 25-minutes. It does that every day and we've had the cabinets for about two years. The humidity levels inside the cabinets have stayed consistently below 5% RH for as long as we've had them.
-Steve Gregory-
Can desiccant bags be baked or microwaved to remove the accumulated moisture? I used to know of a recipe to microwave desiccant bags to drive the moisture off but can't remember what it was. Although it has been some years now so I wonder if it is still possible.
TIA
Kat
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