distillation apparatus

1. What is a distillation apparatus?
2. What equipment is used in distillation?
3. What apparatus is used in fractional distillation?
4. What are the 3 steps of distillation?
5. What is distillation apparatus used for?
6. What is the principle of distillation?
7. What industries use distillation?
8. How do you use distillation apparatus?
9. What is the basic principle of fractional distillation?
10. Why is fractional distillation used?
11. Which distillation technique is more efficient?

What is a distillation apparatus?

The distillation apparatus, commonly called a 'still', consists of a vessel for plant material and water, a condenser to cool and condense the vapour produced and a method of collection, or 'receiver'.

What equipment is used in distillation?

� The apparatus used consists of three major parts:� distillation flask (or �pot�) to heat the mixture and volatilize the components, a condenser to cool the vapors back to liquid state, and a collection vessel.

What apparatus is used in fractional distillation?

Fractional distillation in a laboratory makes use of common laboratory glassware and apparatuses, typically including a Bunsen burner, a round-bottomed flask and a condenser, as well as the single-purpose fractionating column.

What are the 3 steps of distillation?

The overall process of alcohol distillation can be summed up into 3 parts: Fermentation, Distillation, and Finishing.

What is distillation apparatus used for?

Distillation apparatus comprises of three major, firstly distillation flask which is used for heating the mixture and volatizing the components, secondly condenser; used for cooling the vapors back to liquid state, and lastly collection vessel.

What is the principle of distillation?

To separate a mixture of liquids, the liquid can be heated to force components, which have different boiling points, into the gas phase. The gas is then condensed back into liquid form and collected. Repeating the process on the collected liquid to improve the purity of the product is called double distillation.

What industries use distillation?

The most widely used industrial applications of continuous, steady-state fractional distillation are in petroleum refineries, petrochemical and chemical plants and natural gas processing plants.

How do you use distillation apparatus?

Setting Up the Apparatus

Insert a short length of glass tubing into a stopper. Connect it to one end of a length of plastic tubing. Connect the other end of the plastic tubing to a short length of glass tubing inserted into the other stopper. The distilled fluid will pass through this tubing to the second flask.

What is the basic principle of fractional distillation?

The basic principle of this type of distillation is that different liquids boil and evaporate at different temperatures. So when the mixture is heated, the substance with lower boiling point starts to boil first and convert into vapours.

Why is fractional distillation used?

Fractional distillation is used in oil refineries (Figure 5.41) to separate the complex mixture into fractions that contain similar boiling points and therefore similar molecular weights and properties. Gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, and jet fuel are some of the different fractions produced by an oil refinery.

Which distillation technique is more efficient?

The fractional distillation is more efficient, and is suited for mixtures of volatile liquids. The closer the difference in the boiling points, the more demanding the distillation.