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Distilled water
Distilled water is water that has been purified by boiling it into vapor and condensing the vapor back into liquid in a separate container. Any impurities in the original water, such as non-volatile or mineral components, that do not boil below or near the boiling point of water remain in the original container. For example, water escaping as steam from a boiler of heating system or steam engine, leaves behind any dissolved materials, which leads to mineral deposits known as boiler scale.
In general, non-purified water can leave behind mineral deposits, or could cause or interfere with chemical reactions. Distillation is a method for removing impurities from water and other fluids. Distilled water has not been proven to be healthier for drinking than hard water.
Drinking water has been distilled from seawater since at least about AD 200, when the process was clearly described by Alexander of Aphrodisias. Its history predates this, as a passage in Aristotle's Meteorologica refers to the distillation of water. Captain Israel Williams of the Friendship (1797) improvised a way to distill water, which he described in his journal.
Until World War II, distilling seawater to produce fresh water was time-consuming and expensive in fuel. A common saying was: "It takes one gallon of fuel to make one gallon of fresh water."[citation needed] Shortly before the war, Dr. R. V. Kleinschmidt developed a compression still, which became known as the Kleinschmidt still, for extracting fresh water from seawater or contaminated water. By compressing the steam produced by boiling water, 175 US gal (660 L; 146 imp gal) of fresh water could be extracted from seawater for every gallon (3.8 L; 0.83 imp gal) of fuel used.
During World War II, Kleinschmidt stills became standard on Allied ships and on trailer mounts for armies. This method was in widespread use in ships and portable water distilling units during the latter half of the century.
Modern vessels now use flash-type evaporators to boil seawater, heating the water to between 70 and 80 °C (158 and 176 °F) and evaporating the water in a vacuum. This is then collected as condensation before being stored.
Distilling water with commercial equipment will almost completely remove all dissolved minerals such as calcium, magnesium, sodium, fluoride, potassium, iron, and zinc leaving a TDS of <1PPM, and reduce its electrical conductivity to <2 μS/cm. Typical tap water has electrical conductivity in the range of 200–800 μS/cm. The pH of distilled water is always slightly lower than 7 (neutral) because distilled water will absorb small amounts of carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere which forms traces of carbonic acid and lowers the pH of distilled water to around 5.8 pH (very weakly acidic).
Solar stills can be relatively simple to design and build, with cheap materials.
Distilled water
Distilled water is water that has been purified by boiling it into vapor and condensing the vapor back into liquid in a separate container. Any impurities in the original water, such as non-volatile or mineral components, that do not boil below or near the boiling point of water remain in the original container. For example, water escaping as steam from a boiler of heating system or steam engine, leaves behind any dissolved materials, which leads to mineral deposits known as boiler scale.
In general, non-purified water can leave behind mineral deposits, or could cause or interfere with chemical reactions. Distillation is a method for removing impurities from water and other fluids. Distilled water has not been proven to be healthier for drinking than hard water.
Drinking water has been distilled from seawater since at least about AD 200, when the process was clearly described by Alexander of Aphrodisias. Its history predates this, as a passage in Aristotle's Meteorologica refers to the distillation of water. Captain Israel Williams of the Friendship (1797) improvised a way to distill water, which he described in his journal.
Until World War II, distilling seawater to produce fresh water was time-consuming and expensive in fuel. A common saying was: "It takes one gallon of fuel to make one gallon of fresh water."[citation needed] Shortly before the war, Dr. R. V. Kleinschmidt developed a compression still, which became known as the Kleinschmidt still, for extracting fresh water from seawater or contaminated water. By compressing the steam produced by boiling water, 175 US gal (660 L; 146 imp gal) of fresh water could be extracted from seawater for every gallon (3.8 L; 0.83 imp gal) of fuel used.
During World War II, Kleinschmidt stills became standard on Allied ships and on trailer mounts for armies. This method was in widespread use in ships and portable water distilling units during the latter half of the century.
Modern vessels now use flash-type evaporators to boil seawater, heating the water to between 70 and 80 °C (158 and 176 °F) and evaporating the water in a vacuum. This is then collected as condensation before being stored.
Distilling water with commercial equipment will almost completely remove all dissolved minerals such as calcium, magnesium, sodium, fluoride, potassium, iron, and zinc leaving a TDS of <1PPM, and reduce its electrical conductivity to <2 μS/cm. Typical tap water has electrical conductivity in the range of 200–800 μS/cm. The pH of distilled water is always slightly lower than 7 (neutral) because distilled water will absorb small amounts of carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere which forms traces of carbonic acid and lowers the pH of distilled water to around 5.8 pH (very weakly acidic).
Solar stills can be relatively simple to design and build, with cheap materials.
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