Off Grid Water Distillation at its Best!
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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A video demonstrating the non-electric Off Grid Steam Distiller by Water Wise. It was very rewarding to see the production rate. Up to 16 gallons of distilled water a day off of wood. The water tastes great. Future tests will involve brackish and seas water.
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years ago i built a water distiller out of 50 feet of 3/8" copper tubing coiled inside a 5 gallon bucket and used an old pressure cooker as the boiling vessel. it worked very well and condensed all of the steam and could produce 20 gallons a day if you really needed that much distilled water. so yes, you can build a cheaper distiller but the waterwise 1600 is a really cool design that takes up a lot less space, that's what you're paying for.
Will you tell me how to do it??
It's nice to know this kind of equipment is available, thanks for bringing us such cool videos.
It is even nicer to know that you don't need to spend a thousand Dollars to distill water. I can use clay from a hole in the ground in my back yard and distill the swamp water from the puddles in the woods, and it will cost me no money, and I don't have any equipment to carry around with me.
For your information, Sea Water should not affect stainless steel whatsoever. It will form a highly crusty crud on the inside of the boil chamber, but you should be able to just tap on the boil chamber to knock out the crud and scour it out with a brillo pad.
I finally got one. It arrives tomorrow! Your 'show & tell' simply ROCKS! Thank you.
Did you test to see if anything in the water survived during the distillation process
No problems with the distiller?
Where what link? I cant find one @mark
I am an engineer also and a prepper Nice system especially for winter use. Below is my system that might help you with a solar design:
My solar still produces about 5 gallons a day in October on sunny days. I used an old duel pane solar panel about 3' by 7'. I stood it up on end slanted against a rock wall fence. Water level is maintained by a mounted water tank next to the panel that connects at the bottom. The highth of the water in the tank determines solar panel water level. Next to the panel I built a wooden 3 level shelf stand. At the top of the solar panel I ran copper tube up first and then down to my first copper coil inside a 2' by 4' water cooling tub and came out the bottom/front side. Below that tank I ran a second copper coil to my second tank and then out its bottom to feed my 5 gallon distilled water container, final product, sitting at the bottom of the stand. The top tank removes a large portion of heat from the descending vapor/liquid. This heated water in the tank (heated from transfer of heat from vapor coil) is then fed to the bottom of the panel and thereby reusing the transferred heat. I tried to position the coils so that all fluids/vapor are being pulled downward by gravity in all portions of the tubing. Top and bottom tanks are fed by sprinkler timer. The top tank then also feeds the solar panel and determines what level in the solar panel the water sits. The bottom tank is fed by sprinkler timer also but does not feed the panel water and is always much cooler then the top tank. It's water is only used to cool the second coil. The panel has four ports one on each side at the bottom and one on each side at the top. I occasionally use the unused bottom port to drain the brine. I may adapt a valve to automatically dump, the brine, at the end of the day by sprinkler timer later on. It is important that when you connect the top of the panel to the top coil that the connector is not tight but is left loose to allow air to occasionally enter when good flow occurs or you will create a siphoning effect and get about 20 gallons of possibly sterilized water that is NOT distilled at the end of the day. There may be some steam loss because of this; but, the effect is negligible. An improvement I could easily make is take the duel pane glass off the panel and spray the now gray copper sheet and copper tubing black again and I should have more output. Thanks for your video....good research and testing.
HI can we connect by email or app so I could try make one . With your good info and can i see a picture or video of it thanks
12 gallons a day.....That is one sweet distiller. Thanks for sharing
practicalpreppers.com/images/Distiller%201600.jpeg image of the process
engineer775 Practical Preppers I just got one and it's flows well but I am concerned about the tube leaching because of the heat from the distilled/evaporated water. What is your take on this? I am trying to find a suitable substitute or should I? Let me know if you care at all about the tube and relatively hot water coming out of it. Thanks
didanhtennis i have the same question as you and also how to clean the tube if that green stuff grows on it or how to prevent it from happening.
I am glad to have this but this is not the best system out there. I just hope that I don't have to use it.
+didanhtennis If you think it's not the best system, why not show what you think is better?
+Traveler I explained the most cheapest and most effective way to get clean drinking water 99.99% clean. All the water you can drink in a day by using this simple cheap method. NEVER run out of water in a crisis. The size of the hole is ONLY good for ONE person.
I love it!
But, you may want to do away from the plastic pipe and go with copper.
Also you may want to add a charcoal filter for the VOC's (volatile organic compounds) the boil off first.
That's a pretty awesome system!
I plan to use my 23-Quart Pressure Canner by presto on my Liberty wood stove and copper tube the steam through my outside wall into a 5 gal coolant bucket during the fall/winter months into a charcoal drip filter and then a 5 gal glass catch basin.
Being I have to heat my home (wood heat) and it's cold out (condensing the steam) 24/7 I might as well be making pure H2O surplus for the summer.
P.S. I am on my second H2O lab distiller so I need to bring down the cost and this is my best opposition.
I recently got one and it works great. *So long as you follow the directions and warnings this device is wonderful, makes a lot of distilled wawa.
I'v used a distiller from Amazon for over a decade. It's electric but doesn't work as
fast nor distill as much as your device but it does produce enough for my wife and me.
Hey Derek very nice we do have well water our selves up here and do boil it as well thank you for showing that
Hey Man!, After you finish distilling your water, you can easily use this same equipment to make Chinese steamed meat and vegetable dumplings.
In the wind, I would wrap the top half with aluminum foil. That should help to keep the steam inside and allow to drain easier.
Some of the Amazon reviews on this product, including close-up pictures, are very concerning regarding quality. For $400? Beware.
This is good for your batteries that may power Solar, but I love the Berkey. My first line of water purification
But remember, the Berkey does not remove salt from the water. I also use a Berkey to filter freshwater, but when the freshwater runs out and I have to switch over to saltwater, distillation or desalination is the only option left.
I spent my career onboard submarines and we drank distilled sea water pretty much the whole time. If you plan on drinking distilled water for an extended time, you must ensure your diet contains minerals that occur in regular water or your guts will get all bound up. Not an expert, just speaking from experience.
Semper Fi Sailor
Gene B The minerals in water can not be processed by the body. It's the reason plants exist, they can use the minerals in the water and we eat the plants.
What like fluride and bacteria, hey maybe some good old fashioned dirt ,these all accur in "regular water".
part of my USN job was distilling water,, and if you don't keep your diet right you will get Boils,, I know for my some of my shipmates and me too had to have lance jobs and they hurt bad,,, ole USN vet
I went to school in England. They told us that Captain Cook saved his sailors with limes (hence the term Limeys). Before he was killed his sailors had been eating walrus for three months.
Your set up is good! i use a 1 gallon still myself and love the results. But, mine is electric, and yours will burn just about anything in an emergency. nice job on the video.
The key is low heat not high heat. Solar Water Distillers are much greater. feel free to join the Distilled Waters Group on facebook aswell as inviting others.
It's all open to the air which cancels out it being distilled as any impurities dust or particulates from flue spoils it.
What a great product! Cant wait for an update on brackish water distilling.
I like it and i wont it
Distilled water is all the body should ever have !!! Thank you mate
Form Australia
perfect. will be using when Jade helm starts in usa this summer. thanks
How much fuel did you use for the amount of water you distilled? Good video.Thank you.
Very cool would like to see more of this. Thanks for posting.
Thank you so much for the demonstration, I wouldn't have looked twice at this unit if I didn't watch the video. I've seen this Distiller on Amazon but it didn't impress me at the time. But I can see the advantages of having more surface space in order to create more water at a faster rate of speed. With that being said, there seems to be room for improvement in regards to the plastic hose. Is the plastic BPA certified plastic? Certain plastics release chemical toxins back into your water which would defeat the purpose. The Company could add a Copper Coil as a spout attachment for longer durability and that would avoid any type of water contamination period. It would cost more, but it would be well worth it. and the handles could be replaced with Stainless Steele for Strength and durability instead of plastic parts. I will still make the purchase, but I will make the necessary adjustments. Thanks again!
@@MJ-nd7cj I bought one, but it's flimsy metal, especially the bottom...should be built better for the money they're asking for...but it does work & pushes out the distilled water faster than a homemade tea kettle.
@@MJ-nd7cj If I bought another one, I'd buy the "compact" distiller with the metal drain hose & you use your own pots. It probably doesn't put out as much distilled water as quickly tho.
A pity that the hot water is running through plastic : your distilled water is contaminated by whatever pollutants where used in the plastic fabrication process
Not a short term problem of course, but if you want to use this long term for the health benefits distilled water is supposed to bring, a glass or stainless steel tube would have been a must.
Jean-Michel Nicolas absolutely that was my 1st reaction when I saw the plastic tube definitely a flaw , I would have to modify this b4 use , otherwise great piece of kit.
it is a food grade plastic, so it has no effect on the water. It has excellent chemical resistant properties making it suitable for a wide range of foods and other products, so it will not erode into the water. especially since the water is cool by the time it exits the radiator. what he has in that glass is nothing but pure H2O. if anything it is a better option than glass might erode and break due to heat expansion and contraction and it could easily shatter if hit.. and you need high grade steel for it not to corrode.
it is a food grade plastic, so it has no effect on the water. It has excellent chemical resistant properties making it suitable for a wide range of foods and other products, so it will not erode into the water. especially since the water is cool by the time it exits the radiator. what he has in that glass is nothing but pure H2O. if anything it is a better option than glass might erode and break due to heat expansion and contraction and it could easily shatter if hit.. and you need high grade steel for it not to corrode.
First thing i saw, specially with hot water. Pba and oil contaminates im sure.
Depends on the grade of plastic. In pharma (my work), high grade plastics are commonly used because in many cases various types of metal leech into the solvent, rust, etc.
Wow. That's impressive. I use a Brewhaus PSII High Capacity Distiller on top of a 16 gal. SS Keg using a Crawdad Propane Jet burner to make Legal (Permit) Ethanol. I only get around 3 quarts in an hour using my setup, and I have the fancy equipment. Keep up the cool vids.
387 Seems a bit Expensive! $99 to 120, might be worth it!
How about for free!? How about they even ship for free!? How about you keep dreaming!!
No Name it’s pretty damn overpriced
Greed tends to be the prevailing trait of salesmen. I'm sure this costs less than 50$ to make.
@@JoyfulUniter Just the form tooling could easily run $50,000, depending on the rate of production needed.
Using third world, hand type fabrication techniques, one might be able to hammer and roll out a couple comparatively ugly, but serviceable units a day...and with hardly any tooling costs to recoup. Or if you think you can sell enough units, you could stamp out enough pieces for one every hour.
That being said, it certainly looks rather simple to duplicate, with $50 worth of stainless cooking gear. Might be just the route I wanna go...
Is this still the best distillation product you have found? It is no longer available.
Your on your way to making colloidal silver!!
What do you mean? I'm thinking of getting this for my family, is it not safe?
@@keephiscommandmentsandlive9860 i think the person was referring to killing the bacteria in the water after the distillation process and the way to do that is to boil the water after distilling but if your using tap water it should be fine but if your using creek water then its best to boil it after distilling the water
EPIC! That is a FANTASTIC design! If only they could do some kind of cooling on the plates....
edit - Still lots of evaporate coming out of that effluent tube. You need some kind of heat sink on that tube to further cool and increase efficiency.
I would be far more impressed if you show us how to engineer that type of thing ourselves, we can't all a Ford that fancy stuff.
There one for $120 on Amazon different brand..also u can make a distiller for free at home with a large pot, a bowl and turning the lid upside down boom instant distiller without having to pay $500
You do it then!!
@@teekotrain6845 I have, and it's much more effective, functional and part of a integrated system. I would do some videos, but I don't really care to share with a world full of users and thieves.
Alloha.
Most Marine RO Fresh Water Makers, like those made by Spectra or Katadyn, rely on some sort of mechanical energy to pressurize the water, so it does the whole Reverse Osmosis thing thru the membrane. Usually, it is some form of electric pump, sometimes tied into a mechanical pump, and for life-raft emergency kits, they usually have a hand-crank pump. I can't remember who made it, think it was British, but someone used to make a device that literally looked like a torpedo. It had a line attached at the front and was towed behind the boat while under way. The water moving past spun the device, powering the pump inside, and forcing the sea-water thru the RO element. The final clean water came back to the boat thru a small hose attached to the tow-line, and was simply fed into whatever fresh water tank you desired. I would think that a similar system could be set up at your pond dam, either in series with or parallel with your hydro-turbine generator.
Peace & Prepare
Pax et Paro
It seems like if this were designed more like a honeycomb beehive heat sink with some way to run cold water through its core like a radiator along with the dimples along the various fins of the heat sink that would create even more surface area that you could have an even more effective distiller. There is still a lot of wasted air space for the steam. Ideally both the passing air across the heat sink and cold water pumped inside of it would increase the condensation of the steam. If the steam pressure could run such a fan and pump to circulate the cold air and water then it could still qualify as an off-grid solution. What would be great to measure is the amount of energy (cost) to the volume of distilled water measured in increments of time that would produce the production curve that you could compare across systems. An average adult consumes about 3 gallons of water each day through drinking and food intake. Therefore a family of 4 will need 10-15 gallons each day just to stay hydrated depending on the size/age of the members let alone water for brushing your teeth and some sponge bathing. In our normal lives we consume 80-100 gallons each day per person but that includes bathing, flushing the toilette, laundry and watering our landscapes, etc. so most of our consumption has little to do with how much much we actually drink or swallow.
There is a bug in the water.. U should cover the clean water.. Love the set-up
Upon closer inspection, there are several problems.
First of all, it is a structure that collects distilled water, but because it is an open type, the probability of impurities entering is high.
And the path of collecting distilled water into glass bottles is plastic, so microplastics are bound to be included in the water, so this method cannot be called pure distilled water.
I seen a similar one somewhere and it used silicon tubes, not plastic
If there was a disaster any water would do, I would just drink the well water, distilled water is a privilege
I think you could almost make gasoline with that too.. just needs to be pressurized - and able to withstand the temps - since you're basically distilling crude oil to get fuels and oils.
The only pure water on earth is distilled. The human body is 72% water. Great article,
***** That is a myth. Have drank DW for over 30 years. The only problem I have encountered is not having to go to the doctor. Leaching minerals is the arguement from the army of trolls I have meet on this subject. The Earth is covered by 72% water. The human body is 72% water. Coincidence? If you need extra minerals eat a bag of chips or rub some clean dirt on your skin is what I always tell them.
Okay, what's the truth?
Thanks guys. It's somewhat clearer now.
I met a guy in Costco who has a business producing pure water for industry. He claimed if you drank it all the time it would kill you!!!
Seems we have some myths in the system.
I think the one part most are missing here in this great water debate is the fact the human body can only absorb organic minerals. Meaning from a plant. Inorganic just clogs up the system causing all forms of dis ease.
***** your totally right and funny to see you here again. peace :)
Interesting! It would be good to see how well it does with salt water and water with chemicals like one might find in a swimming pool or metal manufacturing plants where chemicals are used for etching and such. Thanks for the video.
As for the salt water, it works fine, I use one here in Hawaii all the time for drinking water. As for other chemicals, theoretically it should remove everything from the water, but if you are still concerned after distilling it, run it through a Berkey, which is what I do here with ocean water since the whole Earthquake and nuclear accident in Japan.
It looks like they don't make these anymore. Is there a new one you would recommend?
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing!! 💖
PS. If you drink distilled water and are profusely sweating, make sure you add some salt or electrolyte mix, because distilling removes all forms of mineral and salt impurity, you will need replacements normally found in hard water.
No. Don’t add salt. But make a organic carrot juice on the side celery... all minerals salt needed
@@JESUSSavesWAKEUP use Celtic sea salt
@@305floridian I've been using Redman
Don't forget you need to filter out the voc's with a carbon filter before drinking it.
Nice vid Scott. Thanks for posting.
Pretty cool, but $400 puts it out of my range, I will however borrow the design and get some used cast iron and steel pans from a thrift store and make and enjoy my own, 16 gallons is remarkable, that's enough water for a couple weeks of drinking and cooking. thanks for the demo.
Maybe copper? Good enough for water pipes!
Hello to the video owner. I just want to ask if this product will heat up with induction cooktop? I am considering this because of the rate of time and water that it can produce plus the price. If it will work with our induction cooktop this is the best I have seen thus far.
love this use on any heat source is best form
Website says the product is no longer available
how much is it? my other question is what will you do when the disaster your prepping for wipes out your equipment and stores??
another thought. use a parabolic mirror and solar power to distill your water and save the fuel for a rainy day.
it's the disaster I didn't prepare for that concerns me. there is endless biomass where I live so I am not concerned about fuel. my main use for this distiller is for keeping my batteries in good shape.
That was my concern too untill my house caught fire. Most of my preps went up in smoke And i found my self living off grid. I had to rewire the house and get it inspected.
Im just saying not to put all your preps in one place. And learn to live off the land.
Just gives you another option.
+John Latsch about $400 for the waterwise 1600 and about $220 for the silverfire chimney stove.
in emergencies you can make water bacteria free, with water left 6 hours in clear jugs...so says Nat'l Geo magazine...glass jugs is best...i do it to my old well water in fact.
the pipe in the center is the key..the wider the pipe the more steam vapor means more water per minute..
Hello Scott,
I have seen the description of the very innovative Waterwise from you. On your website, but he is no longer to be found.
Distillers with cable are very expensive in power consumption.
Can you still offer the Waterwise and possibly a smaller model that fits on a kitchen table?
It is important that the distiller does not smoke and work like a gas burner.
Oliver
This may be new to you but my granpa had one like it he made because his water from the well tasted bad. His wasn't stainless steel though, just regular steel.
Just a question....... There's no carbon filter on this machine, I'm hearing elsewhere that is needed to stop airborne chemicals (voc's ?) from contaminating the distilled water.......... Also, the plastic tube will leech chemicals into the finished product too, I believe ? Just thinking a little adaptation needed to make the finished product completely pure.Great video though, thanks for sharing.
Very cool setup! Thanks for sharing. I look forward to picking one of these up. Big like & new sub!
What is the stove you are using? Great looking setup
➕ “Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well” (Pro. 5:15).
Amen!
That means from your own water well, not from the city ruined.
If water condenses on the trays and drips down through the center, why on earth would you pour water onto the trays??? Should you not, only start, with water in the bottom of this thing and nothing on the trays?
The water on top of the trays is used to cool the trays through evaporative cooling so the steam condenses. The dimpled trays are likely hollow and the condensate forms inside them. The water on top does not go into the collection system.
I would a diagram of the flow path to understand this.....
Keith MacDonald I think the water on the top of the trays is a bad idea also. You want a cool surface for the water to condensate on. A half an inch of heated water is not what you want on top of that surface. Try it dry and I bet the amount of distillate increases dramatically. A rocket stove may be even more efficient. Great video!
+Mars Rover The reqjuirement for a "cool" surface for condensation is a common misconception. To a volume of steam, any surface less than the boiling/condensation point is "cool". As a matter of fact, the colder the plate the more inefficient the process, as cooling the water far below the condensation point is a waste of capacity.
Interesting. Thanks.
No problem. With the disstiller per se. It seems to work well.
I only have one courtiq about it.
That is that in a S.H.T.F. AT SOME POINT IN TIME YOU WILL HAVE TO BE ON THE MOVE. At that time how does you deal with mobility issues. Along with your other gear. What then not very good for that. Need something more mobile as will. Or your be in trouble.
It burns a hole in the bottom of the bowl after one use? How is this great?
Rose, I wonder if instead of using that aluminum plate on top of the stove if you were to replace that with a flat cast iron grill if that would still work or cause any heat transference issues with the distiller? Seems as though it should work fine, and would not have to worry about the aluminum melting issues anymore.
Was this a paid review? I have some concerns about this being eaten by salt water and it being recommended by you unless your review is only based on the amount of water it can distill.
Just watched 9 minutes . Have NO idea HOW it works . That's important to me . Are the three "trays" exposed to the atmosphere to collect WHATEVER happens to float by and fall into the "clean" water ?
that is very useful and helpful. thank for the video and review.
Can you get rid of fluoride from water by distillation with this equipment?
floride evaporates at.....
google it man yourself.
Flouride yes, Flouramine, no.
i feel like if you don't see steam or know that it's hot when it's on a stove, that could be a danger.
obviously if it's on a campfire heat source, you would assume it's hot.
The plains Indians used to burn dried buffalo droppings for cooking and heating fuel. How's that for biomass?
Awesome video!
Hi there 775. Excellent prensation.
There one for $120 on Amazon different brand..also u can make a distiller for free at home with a large pot, a bowl and turning the lid upside down boom instant distiller without having to pay $500
Appreciate you sharing this.
Thanks for the review. Gonna check this system out. Anthony.
I'm trying to decide whether you are encouraging people to be prepared for a water shortage or to buy these expensive products you are promoting. I have seen a very simple and effective design that uses a slanted metal box covered with a sheet of window glass. This cheap and simple device can also be used with any heat source. When the sun is not keeping up with the demand for the distilled water being produced.
Hi do you have a link for the above? cheers
Would love to see this.
I'd think adding some kind of porous rock to the boiling chamber would increase surface area/evaporation.
not unless the rock has been heated before eing dropped inside, it will do nothing but displace water.
Thermodynamics applies here as everywhere, the amount of steam/vapour produced is directly proportional to the amount of heat suppied, no amount of increase in surface area will make any difference.
no longer available. any idea when/if these will come back in stock?
Looks amazing!
Use a fresnel lens to distill water with the sun for free
Also an idea I've had but the issue is heliostatic tracking - did you solve that problem by chance?
I'd really like to get one of these lenses.
But don't know how to get one.
@@pychohobo1832
they throw them away every day in old TVs sitting on the sidewalks of big cities
Try stretching clear plastic wrap like a roof over an adjustabe height frame, pour water on it to *form a water lens that uses tracking mirrors* to light up ur fancy. Need more magnification? A bigger frame and/or deeper water.
I saw a big water lens here on youtube years ago, but the mirror idea came to me as soon as I started this post.
For all I know somebodies likely doin it already, hope somone tries it regardless!
You could do a lot better using a pressure cooker and just lead the steam down into a bucket with more water around to cool it down in the start. Much simpler, cheaper and faster.
What do you mean cool it down have you tried this?
@@ted6090 Yes, many times. It is just basic destillation. If you boble the steam into water it is a easy and efficent way to cool it down, but if you loose steam pressure it can suck the water back rader violently. A cooling jacket on a pipe is a better way.
Make a transfer trough the grond.
Vull it wit water en let the coil go between the destination coil
Hit the boiler whit the zun.
En whole jear you colect freely destil ed water
12 gallons a day but how long does it take to replace the water on the trays? And how do you use the prewarmed water from the trays? it looks too hard to just tip them over the pot without most of it missing. Nice bit of kit though.
After collecting the distilled water, what can be used to replace the required nutrients for drinking that were lost during distillation without having to add a pinch of this and a pinch of that? A ready mixed product is what I'm looking for...cheers.
I'd be interested in setting up on electric burner powered fully.by solar. Being able to setup an auto feed for water source would also allow continued operation with minimum monitoring
You do not want a continually running system, especially if you are removing salt from the water. It needs to be cleaned out between batches or you will ruin the system.
@@DimensionRunner If mineral deposits are building up, they can be cleaned off easily with a soak in CLR. Be sure to rinse the system out thoroughly after using the CLR soak though before producing drinking water again. I soak my system in CLR about once a week to prevent any buildup from happening. You do not need new CLR each time, it can be reused multiple times.
Is there any where you could add a carbon filter charcoal etc… to the tube where the distilled water exits ???
Very handy bit of kit but no VOC capture...
The wedsite says this is no longer available.
Those trees are pantry call it are like bath and flutted and baffles You usually see something like that with At vodka ref like students they have baffles that are fluted
DUDE AWESOME!
The only problem I see with drinking Distilled water Is the absence of Minerals/electrolytes that your body needs. It can also flush The good Minerals with the bad. This can be remedied I think somewhat by eating a very healthy diet, But how many people eat a very healthy diet? Can you address this? I know some people actually add minerals to their distilled water
That’s a common misconception. Search “The art of detox distilled water” and read their article on the subject.
what are you using for fuel in the hunter, and did you have to refuel during the hour?
Wood scraps
I saw your Continuous Hot Water heater once. Can't you redesign that one to distill water? Seems it would be easier then this and it's all in ONE UNIT. Just asking because together these cost almost $600..your Continuous Hot Water heater can be built in a shop for a fraction of that...
I don't know if I am getting too old or what but I could not follow your description of how this thing works at all...... You put water in the bottom and some on top shelf, how the heck does this work?
The water is poured into the bottom pan, that it heated to the point where it creates steam, the steam vapor collects and cools on those three suspended pans. Once the water cools back into a liquid form, it drips down to the collection point, where it pours out of the unit via the plastic tube.
The water that you pour into the top trays stays cooler than the boiling water below and is what is cooling down the steam to form condensation on the underside of those trays that is then diverted back to the collection point.
What about on windy days, do you get dust in you water ? It seems like there is no protection for that.
Are the sides of the distiller open, that does not seem like it would be efficient.
I watched this quick, but since you use fire it is a high heat distillation so is there a post carbon filter that catch VOC's? I guess depending on the water there wouldn't be VOC's.
VoCs with a boiling point lower than water can be boiled off by simmering the water (and stirring to increase surface area/exposure) for a short time before initiating the collection of the steam.
Any VoCs with boiling points higher will not be collected.
VoC information appears sparse. I can't find a list of VoCs and boiling points but I get the impression that there isn't one with the exact boiling point of water.
Since it's pretty dependent on atomic makeup I'm guessing that there isn't one since that exact temperature is relevant to hydrogen/oxygen chains, but I'm not sure.
I am curious about the cost effectiveness of this. What I mean is that I am also on well water which I can drink, but really don't like to. However, I am in northern Canada. So, I was thinking of using something like this on the kitchen stove. I'm sure it takes substantial heat BUT ..... energy can be neither created nor destroyed, right? So, if I simply let all the hot water cool down to room temperature before putting the water in the fridge, I am effectively using the stove to heat my home with some heat loss due to thermal inefficiency. Does that make sense? Or is there no heat loss due to thermal inefficiency since energy can be neither created nor destroyed. Maybe entropy accounts for thermal inefficiency. Of course if one did this on a wood stove in the basement, then it really doesn't cost much at all. $0.01 for your thoughts ?
Priceless right now shelves are empty as far as any distilled water.
I am impress with yr system. Can you tell me what type of hose were you using? It is quite close to the fire.
The heat and the liquid is going to attract mosquitos, flys, etc..... into your condensate trays.
How do you keep them out of your distilled water?
You didn't really show any closeups, but is it all open where the water condenses on the bumps? If so, you could only use it on calm, windless says with no dust, dirt, whatever blowing around.
No, you want the breeze blowing across the plates, that's what causes the condensation to happen on the underside of the plates.
Can you make moonshine with that distiller? My guess is you have to use a lower temperature.
Very handsome and thank you for sharing this.
Everyone should look up "urine looping", "urine therapy" and "Andrew Norton Webber distilled water".
Actually the wind would increase the efficiency.
Try on a cold winterday to get more out of it.
Exactly, the breeze flowing over the collector plates at the top speed condensation on the underside of the trays, that is the water the system is collecting. The more breeze that goes across those trays, the faster the water would cool and condense.
It would be easier to use a LifeSaver can with an Berkey filter combined. This would be better for a long term system but the Lifesaver lasts a long time and you could just stock filters
how many people want to stock filters, though? This is off-the-grid and there's no supply store!