Correct, so that would be something that remains in the test chamber, but gases like chlorine and nitrogen have a lower boiling point and so, in a close environment, would vaporize and then condense again back into distilled.
I had not check bisphenol's boiling point so that was my mistake but...
That was a typo. I meant to say bisphenol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A
VOCs, nitrogen, chlorine, and organics are a concern that aren't necessarily taken out of water through solar distillation and UV radiation (we also don't want to release them in the air).
This project is a...
I had to ask my school to request this since we don't have it in our journals, but thanks for the source! Yeah, that's more what I'm talking about. The math here might prove useful even if it's not the same material we'll be using as them.
Again, it's not exactly alcohol that's the concern. It's aqueous solutions where part of the mixture has a lower boiling point that water. Bespenol is another example or gases like nitrogen and chlorine.
We actually moved along with the project a bit more. It turns out activated carbon might...
This is probably why it's so hard to find anything that discusses this process (both in academic search or through google). When I say "I want to distill alcohol out of water," it's assumed I want to keep the alcohol when I really want to get rid of it. For us, distill = purify so pardon the...
That's why we're using a fresnel lens to concentrate our heat onto a specific area within a cylindrical test chamber. This is a concentrated heat source project. The material we're using also facilitates solar absorption (based on both experimental and modeling research). We're actually...
It's not a specific mixture per se. There is NO desire for alcohol as a by-product I swear!
See, the objective is to use nanomaterials that facilitate heat transfer to distill water with solar heat in as many different situations as possible. The best example of a sample would be one that is...
Thank you so much for your feedback fellow posters!
Just to clarify, no we DON'T want to keep the alcohol in any way. We want pure water as the final result. Any way to get the alcohol to disappear completely from the final water collection within the confines of our project design is what we...
Hello. My name is Jack. New member to the forums. Nice to meet you all!
I have a general question that is part of a project I am working on for graduate school. I'm looking to distill water through solar energy in a closed solar still and am in a pickle finding a way to prevent alcohol from...