Home Made Chemistry Lab: Improvised Water Distiller
Here is a
simple but efficient homemade water distiller that should be able to help us
meet our daily water needs.
As one ofthe most important elements of life, water can cause serious inconveniences
when missing. Speaking of potable water, you have to admit that the idea of
drinking tap water has become, for many of us, the last alternative. So,
instead of drinking tap water, we often buy it from the market.
Now, we can’t
rely on this water either, because for
all our daily needs it will involve lots of spent money.
So, one of
the best ways left to provide clean water to our homes is to purify the tap
water using water purifiers or distillers.
What you’ll
need to build this homemade water distiller:
a metal pot, stainless steel
feed-through fitting, a plastic hose, glass jug, detergent, a stove and of
course tap water (the entire assembling process should not take more than an
hour).
Before you start building the water distiller, make sure all of the
components are clean. Use warm water and detergent to clean them well prior to
assembling.
First, you
need to drill a hole in the lid of the metal pot. Here you will insert a
feed-through fitting. When the water in the metal pot will start to evaporate
(boiling at 100 Celsius degrees) it will pass through the stainless steel
feed-through fitting.
When the
homemade water distiller begins to work, you have to let the steam escape for
about 5 minutes from the feed-through fitting. After that attach a clean
plastic hose to the feed-through fitting (high temperatures-proof) that will
help you get rid of the remaining contaminants, if they still exist. Place the
free end of that plastic hose in your glass jug and start collecting clean
drinkable water and for your homemade lab analysis. The water resulted after condensation will be pure. You can
store it in plastic bottles.
This is all
you need to know if you want to build such a simple homemade water distiller.
Give this plan a try. Good luck!
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