Making distilled water at home

Distilled water has quite a lot of uses in everyday life, which I personally did not know about. I only used distilled water to fill the battery. Although its use is by no means limited to this.

Distilled water is used:


  • - For topping up the battery, preparing electrolyte.
  • - In home cosmetology, to cleanse the skin.
  • - For refilling irons with a steam generator, which extends their service life and does not leave white marks on clothes when ironing.
  • - For oral administration - cleansing the body. Some people like to make tea. The issue of benefit is of course very controversial, so we will not dwell on it.
  • - There are other applications, write your examples in the comments.

Distilled water is actually pure “H2O” without impurities and salts, viruses and bacteria. And water itself is the best solvent on planet Earth, in which a huge number of chemical elements dissolve.
Distilled water can only be obtained by evaporation; no filter elements can help here. Therefore, to obtain this miracle, you need a device such as a distiller. It consists of a heating vessel containing liquid, in which evaporation occurs, and a refrigerator, in which condensation of vapor into liquid occurs. Anyone who has ever seen a device for making “moonshine” will understand me.
All this, of course, is not very difficult, but it requires preparation and production of equipment.

Simple DIY distiller


I will show you a simple way to make a primitive distiller from a saucepan in 5 minutes to obtain distilled water at home. No modifications to the pan will be required and after use it will continue to serve its intended purpose.

What is needed to obtain distilled water?


A saucepan with a lid. It would be great if the lid was transparent, but this is not essential. The main thing is that it is convex and not straight.
The size of the pot depends on your distilled water needs. Next we need a deep plate that will fit into the pan.
Making distilled water at home

Making distilled water at home

You will also need ice, which can be obtained using the refrigerator and plain water.
Making distilled water at home

The process of obtaining distilled water at home


Pour water into the pan. Such an amount that you could put a plate on it without it tipping over. About one third.
Making distilled water at home

If you are using running water, leave the pan open to allow excess chlorine to ventilate.
After this, put the pans on the fire.
Making distilled water at home

Place a deep plate on this water inside.
Making distilled water at home

Making distilled water at home

Distilled water will collect in it. And we’ll close the lid on top, just not as usual, but turn it inside.
Making distilled water at home

As soon as the water starts to boil in the pan, put ice on top of the lid.
Making distilled water at home

Making distilled water at home

Making distilled water at home

Making distilled water at home

What's happening?


Under the influence of temperature, water will begin to turn into steam. The steam, in turn, will condense on the ice-cooled lid. And since the lid is convex inward, droplets of condensation will flow down and drip into the floating plate.
Making distilled water at home

Making distilled water at home

Storage


Once you have collected a full plate of distilled water, you can pour it into a clean jar for further storage.
Since water is absolutely “empty”, it is stored for a very, very long time in a container with a tight lid.
But before pouring the water into the vessel, I recommend rinsing it twice: once with plain water and detergent, and a second time with a small amount of distilled water, which you then need to discard. And then add water for storage.
The second rinse is needed to remove any remaining non-distilled water from the surface.
Making distilled water at home

Testing


Checking the quality of distilled water is very simple. To do this, take a 220 V strap with a power of 15-40 watts. Connect it to a 220 V network and open the circuit, connect the electrodes, which are immersed in distilled water.
Pure distilled water does not conduct current, and if there are no unnecessary impurities, the light bulb will not light up. But if you violated the technology during the distillation process (you didn’t wash the vessel or plate, or perhaps non-distilled water got in), the lamp’s filament will be red, which in turn will mean the presence of salts in the water.
Making distilled water at home

Conclusion


So, friends, if you urgently need to get a small amount of distilled water, then this method will definitely help you out, requiring very little effort and time from you. And most importantly - no costs!

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Comments (10)
  1. Guest
    #1 Guest Guests 10 January 2018 17:06
    3
    To the author +100500!! A wonderful simple device. An excellent distiller and moonshine still.
  2. Alexei
    #2 Alexei Guests 10 January 2018 17:28
    2
    just yesterday I wrote a comment about how moonshine was distilled only instead of a lid there was polyethylene and boilers inside instead of gas
  3. AlexPanych
    #3 AlexPanych Guests February 7, 2018 11:31
    4
    For the listed applications (except for ingestion, perhaps :)) condensation from an air conditioner is perfect))
    1. AlexPanych
      #4 AlexPanych Guests 7 February 2018 11:32
      0
      Inside both yourself and the battery!
      1. Guest Alexander
        #5 Guest Alexander Guests 20 July 2020 09:25
        4
        Air conditioner condensation is the dirtiest water you can find. The air passing through the fins of the cooling radiator contains dust, dirt and bacteria. Subsequently, all this joy is deposited on the wet radiator plates and flows into the pan. And then, under ideal conditions, all types of life multiply, humid, cool, dark, beautiful. Never use water from your conditioner for internal consumption.
  4. Matvey
    #6 Matvey Guests 29 August 2018 21:32
    8
    Brayyyyy!!! There will be no pure distilled water only because there is no indication of the temperature regime for heating the liquid from the tap, which the author calls water. Then there is no indication of the need to pre-boil the water in the container, which was previously washed by who knows what or how. And the main thing. How can you be sure that the composition of the metal handle from which the handle on the lid is made, and the pan itself, will not dissolve in water and add strange impurities to the steam?
    It must be done either in glass (entirely) containers, or in completely enameled ones.
    And so, this device will work for rural areas. Go for it!
  5. RuslanME
    #7 RuslanME Guests 19 September 2018 10:49
    0
    oh boy!! Gorgeous and simple =))
  6. RuslanME
    #8 RuslanME Guests 19 September 2018 10:51
    2
    for an ultrasonic humidifier - the easiest way =)
    There’s tension with the pan, but there’s a cauldron, even if the distillate doesn’t turn out to be 99.9999, it doesn’t matter, most of the salts will be removed, and I’ll get rid of calcium deposits, GREAT =)
  7. Guest Victor
    #9 Guest Victor Guests February 2, 2019 05:43
    3
    What if you melt freshly fallen snow? Won't it work?
    1. Mikhail Grigorievich Zaitsev
      #10 Mikhail Grigorievich Zaitsev Guests 28 November 2022 13:11
      2
      Even in kindergarten we were shown why we shouldn’t eat snow. They covered the glass with gauze, and covered the gauze with snow. When the snow melted, the gauze was dirty!