The process of distillation is one of the most important separation techniques practiced worldwide and is used in petroleum refining, liquid gas production, desalinization of sea water for drinking, and in other industrial and research processes....

Distillation is one of the most important processes for separating the components of a solution. The solution is heated to form a vapor of the more volatile components in the system, and the vapor is then cooled, condensed, and collected as drops of...

Alcohol distillation is a heat-dependant process used to purify or separate alcohol mixtures. This process is used in the manufacture of such alcoholic beverages as brandy, whiskey and rum. These beverages, also known as spirits, are made by first...

Distillation is the process of purifying liquid compounds on the basis of different boiling points or the process of separating liquids from compounds that do not vaporize. Since the actual process causes liquids to precipitate in a wet mist or drops...

Vaporization of a liquid and subsequent condensation of the resultant gas back to liquid form. It is used to separate liquids from nonvolatile solids or solutes (e.g., water from salt and other components of seawater) or to separate two or more liquids...

The process of evaporation of a liquid and its subsequent condensation. Distillation occurs both naturally and in industrial processing. The hydrological cycle is an example of natural distillation, whereas distilling spirits, the differential...

A separation process in which a liquid is converted to a vapor and the vapor is then condensed back to a liquid. The usual purpose of distillation is separation of the compounds of a mixture. Steam distillation separates all water-insoluble liquids...

Distillation is a method of separating chemical substances based on differences in their volatilities in a boiling liquid mixture. Distillation usually forms part of a larger chemical process, and is thus referred to as a unit operation. Commercially,...