The Distillation ProcessBy: Chanelle Grannum

DistillationDistillation is the process of heating a liquid until it boils, capturing and cooling the resultant hot vapors, and collecting the condensed vapors

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Distillation’s UseDistillation is used to purify a compound by separating it from a non-volatile or less-volatile material

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Energy Used• 40,000 distillation columns in the US, use

approximately 24% of the energy consumed by the manufacturing sector.

UsesAbout 95% of all separation processes used in industry is distillation.

Other usesIt can be used to separate three liquid mixtures as well as two liquid mixtures.

Vacuum DistillationUsed when liquids break down at or close to their boiling points.

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Distillation and AlcoholYou have to distill alcohol to make it.

Getting Drinking WaterDistillation is also used to purify water to drink.

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