Monday, February 24, 2020

Distillation the Process of Water Purification




Water distillation has been used by people for thousands of years. The process of water distillation is used to purify water through distillation equipment. Water distillation is used to remove bacteria, viruses, microorganisms and other contaminants from water. The process of distillation uses the source of heat through distillation equipment to boil water and to generate vapors from water. With the help of a higher boiling point, the pure water molecules and contaminants get separated further. Here’s the brief process of distillation using the distillation equipment.

Water gets heated through distillation equipment till the time it starts getting evaporated. The temperature of the boiling water is then kept constant. The constant temperature then continues water vaporization but at the same time helps to prevent evaporating the drinking water contaminants. That means, water is getting boiled at the same temperature so that the evaporation of drinking water contaminants does not happen. The evaporated water is then collected in distillation equipment and transferred through a tube system to other distillation equipment. After that the distillation equipment which is used to provide heat is removed. The water vapors come back to its original liquid form.

The process of distillation removes most of the bacteria and viruses. This water we use for our day to day life.

Water is distilled to remove impurities such as salt from sea water. Because distillation is able to separate substances with the help of distillation equipment, this procedure is used in various processes including production of alcohol, separation of crude oil into petroleum products such as diesel and gasoline. The methods of distillation used in industries and laboratories are the variations of the basic process of distillation. The distillation equipment used for performing a small process and in sprawling oil refineries and warehouse sized craft liquor companies are almost the same. The main differences between them are their cost and the volume of their production.

The process of distillation is also widely used in industries for the manufacturing of various chemical and medical products such as medicines, vaccines, and intravenous injections.


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