Solar Distillation #2 of 3 Purify Water Make Steam

[Burgler5656]

answer to the question? did it take 10 panels to create this reaction? lobo

[SaudaraLink]

Did it take all 10 solar panels to get that one tank of water?

[TheWebock]

I have a 1000 Watt electric water distiller. After distilling 5 gal of tap water I have to clean it and there is a lot of really hard solids. How do you deal with the solids on this unit?

[pommyrooter]

@TheWebock basic water filter??

[TheWebock]

@pommyrooter Yes. A basic home distiller of tap water. Just 5 gallons of water will leave the coil coated with calcium and whatever else as it leans more towards a tan color rather than white. If I have so much left from 5 gallons of tap water; I could only imagine what 5 gallons of salt water solids would produce. Could you tell me something about this?

[pommyrooter]

@TheWebock liquid lime? that dissolves calcium. Im just guessing as to what you could use. Sorry i cannot be of more help

[TheWebock]

@pommyrooter It's not so much a question of what I could use as I am presuming that you are asking how I dissolve the solids left in my distiller. I soak it in vinegar over night and it becomes a soft mush for the most part. Then I drain it and sanitize the distiller using one cycle of steam.

My question refers to your system. Are there any remaining solids from distilling salt water? If so, what do you do with it or how do you deal with it?

Thank you for the kind replies.

[pommyrooter]

@TheWebock I'm really sorry i cannot be of further help to you. BUT taking an educated guess from watching this series; i would say for sure there would be a residue of salt, in the 'carrier' piping and storage container. Removal would most likely be a hard achievement in itself as salt likes to cling to objects in the most annoying fashion, my recommendation would be too check salinity levels every time you distill salt water. If the levels become unacceptable then a through cleaning by (tbc)..

[pommyrooter]

@TheWebock with either a bristle brush and gentle but persuasive 'percussive maintenance'. In distillation if you kept the water temperature low enough you could clean out the salt then repeat the cycle, to sterilize and clean out any further impurities. This is all coming from my background in distillation of spirits, so if you don't wish to follow my suggestions that is perfectly understandable.

[TheWebock]

@pommyrooter Thanks for the replies. I thought that I was talking to the person who was doing the distillation in this video. Ooops! I am not trying to make any kind of distiller other than using the little one that I have for water; but I am interested in the subject. Thanks for commenting. It was a pleasure meeting you.

[pommyrooter]

@TheWebock Haahahaha no i wish i was this guy in the video. He would without doubt be very rich right now lol. It was nice talking to you. I think that this would be a wise investment, if you ever decide to do so. Peace Bro

[lvecsey]

Maybe on a small scale, the good sunlight (weather report) for the day could trigger a text message to your phone during the early afternoon sometimes. "In the mood for tea?" And then you would know to take some filtered water out to the hot plate in your backyard. Smaller scale, and specific novelty item.

[bumpdchunk]

it could be possible dedicate one system to drive a turbine to recirculate or power it and switch to electric pump when pressure to low or maybe it will flow constantly with a regulators??????? just brain storming

[bumpdchunk]

i hope your "colectors" have relief valve or i hope your mk 2 version will, i dont trust those hose n clamps our OSH would have a field day at this place ,if i were you i would where safety glasses when your venting near by(I have been scared by fluid at extreme temps -32c)

you should get a pressure transducer at the seperator inlet and a solenoid so it can bleed off to the seperator itself then its basically automated then get a scada to document data and manage pumps levels etc.

[camdavrees]

you should hook up a steam powered generator to the system and then capture the steam to make distilled water after it. that way you could power the whole system or even more with it.

[GetMeThere1]

I agree. The creators of the video seemed to miss that fact. Steam can do a huge amount of work--and using it for work does nothing to prevent you from still condensing it as distilled water.

The key to this system is the special material on top of the heaters that allows for a much higher temp--hence steam.

[ranyerebrc]

how much cost to manufacture a small machine to generate vapor through the sun, an example: machine to clean and to disinfect plates of restaurants.