How to make distilled water at home

How to make distilled water at home

If you have a humidifier, steam mop, iron with steamer or similar equipment at home, then you know that for their operation you need clean, and best of all distilled water, since scale forms in such devices from tap water, and they fail.
Distillation means the transformation of water into steam, which, during the cooling process, condenses into pure H2O without additional impurities. Today I will tell you how I put together a simple but reliable distiller for producing distilled water in my own kitchen.

What you need


I used the following materials:
  • Two jars with screw caps.
  • Two caps and a tube for takeaway coffee.
  • Screw rings per jar, but two regular screw caps will do.
    How to make distilled water at home

  • Flexible tube for connecting two containers.

How to make distilled water at home

Additionally, you will need a saucepan or other container for boiling water in a steam bath, as well as for cooling the second jar of condensate.
Tools you will need:
A knife or hacksaw with fine teeth.
Hot glue gun.

Distiller assembly


I had two rings that are used to screw onto the jar, I used them to secure the lids. If there are no such rings, you can make fixing rings yourself by cutting out the top part from a regular lid.
From the cocktail tube I cut two small pieces about 5 cm long each. I put a flexible tube on them: I used an aquarium tube, as it fits perfectly in diameter and makes a tight connection. I used hot glue to seal the gap in the lid. It turned out durable and airtight.
How to make distilled water at home

How to make distilled water at home

Then I immediately put on two fixing rings, twisting them in different directions.
How to make distilled water at home

Then he assembled the same structure from the other end of the flexible tube, poured tap water into one of the jars and screwed on the lids. This is how the design turned out.
How to make distilled water at home

Distillation


To cool the steam, the empty jar was placed in a glass carafe so that cold water or ice could be poured into it.
How to make distilled water at home

Place a jar of water to be heated in a saucepan, pour water into it and place it on the stove burner.
How to make distilled water at home

When the water in the first jar heated up, water vapor began to form, which flowed through the tube into the second container, where it condensed into pure distilled water.
How to make distilled water at home

How to make distilled water at home

It turned out very slowly, since the water in the pan was boiling faster than the evaporation of the liquid in the jar. Here I realized my mistake: I should have used not a glass jar heated in a water bath, but a metal container that could be placed directly on the burner to quickly produce a large amount of steam.
I hope my experience will help you make a practical distiller for your home and avoid some mistakes.
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Comments (8)
  1. RuslanME
    #1 RuslanME Guests September 8, 2018 07:14
    6
    maybe it would be easier to pull one end of the tube onto the tip of the teapot spout =)
  2. Nikolay
    #2 Nikolay Guests 8 September 2018 15:53
    5
    buy a simple moonshine still and make distilled water
  3. Sergey K
    #3 Sergey K Visitors 8 September 2018 20:04
    1
    The easiest way to obtain distilled water is to obtain it from a household air conditioner. Find an air conditioner dripping outside and figure out how to direct the life-giving moisture into the container you need. ALL!
    The only negative is that it only works in the summer when the air conditioners are turned on ;)
    1. F
      #4 F Guests 1 July 2022 14:59
      0
      What drips from the air conditioner is condensation of vapors collected from the air inside the room, namely water + washing away dust, hair, droplets of sweat, “breathing” from the mouth, and what someone sneezed out. This is absolutely dirty water, heavily contaminated with bacteria, this liquid has nothing to do with distilled water and certainly cannot be used directly for the same purposes as distillation. Well, maybe just distill it again.
  4. L_Anatol
    #5 L_Anatol Guests 8 September 2018 23:23
    2
    It’s easier to buy (make) a MOONHOON STILL - it will provide these functions!
  5. Guest Alexey
    #6 Guest Alexey Guests September 9, 2018 11:18
    1
    This water will become “golden” if you calculate the cost of gas (electricity) spent.
  6. Guest Mikhail
    #7 Guest Mikhail Guests 11 September 2018 13:22
    0
    Should I just go and buy it at the pharmacy? Although, as a service engineer with almost 30 years of experience, I would not recommend using distilled, boiled or filtered water. You just need to descale your appliances more often.
    1. F
      #8 F Guests 1 July 2022 15:19
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      In the pharmacy (not sure if distillation is sold in the pharmacy) / hardware store / auto store they sell not laboratory distillate, but condensate of industrial “steam 13”, as in a central heating radiator, or deionized water, and they have a decent salt content, about 15-30 times more than even what can be obtained with the help of a simple device in this article, no matter how much energy it consumes and no matter what crutches it has.
      In order for the distillate to be pure, a very low evaporation rate is needed so that droplets of liquid separated from the surface during boiling are not carried into the condensation zone by the force of the flow.
      Unfortunately, even the designers of distillers are not aware of this fact, and in the laboratory, if there is no redistiller, but sufficiently clean water is needed, then to obtain water suitable for chemical analysis, most of the heating elements of the distiller have to be turned off in order to reduce the boiling intensity.
      For those interested, to significantly increase the purity of water, a double distiller is used, followed by ion exchange filters, but such water may contain traces of gases absorbed from the air and cannot be stored for more than 8 hours, since it washes out impurities from the dishes and loses its purity.To remove gases (mainly oxygen and carbon dioxide), a portion of water is boiled for 15 to 30 minutes, but this is also not a complete purification, boiling increases the salt content due to the concentration of the original salts and due to the dissolution of the dishes in which the boiling took place, it is optimal to use initially, redistiller with water condensation in an argon atmosphere. Well, really, this last paragraph is not for those who like cheap things; simply preparing ten liters of oxygen-free water for the synthesis of, say, magnetite nanoparticles can take 20 hours of working time, not to mention electricity and other consumables.