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Posted 04 June 2019 - 09:10 AM

Hi Everyone,

Can any one help with information on an equipment that will enable me recycle water from Distillation machine in the  Micro lab.

Really, i want to cut down on cost or waste and obviously reuse the water.

 

Any help? will appreciate it.

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Angie.



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Posted 04 June 2019 - 10:22 AM

Dear Angie

 

The distilled water usually contain very few impurities except some volatile components from the product you have distilled. One simple way is to treat this water with mix bed of anionic, cat ionic and molecular resins.  this option is only economically viable if your distillation machine produce significant amount of distillate

 

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Dr Humaid Khan

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Posted 04 June 2019 - 11:59 AM

Thanks Dr Khan.

But i mean the water that flow out after distillation? How can i recycle that? 

Is there a machine to rework the "waste water"?

 

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Posted 04 June 2019 - 02:22 PM

Ohh you mean the remaining water after distillation.

 

That water contains all the ions, organic materials and heavy metals that you removed from the distillate.

The easiest and most cost efficient method to re-use this water would be to...distillate it again...
But this will damage your system as it is likely to form deposits and corrosion. Plus,up to a certain concentration some ions will travel in the steam and end up contaminating your distillate.

 

You could also look into ions, metals and organic compounds capturing resins. But those are costly, have a fixed capacity and cannot be reused unless generating some wastewater again.

 

Honestly I would try to reduce the amount of waste water generated instead by doing a harsher distillation cycle and increasing maintenance on the equipment to ensure it is functioning at optimal conditions.



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