Solvent Distillation - A Brief Overview

Solvent distillation, is a method of taking a source material mixture and utilizing the differences in their boiling points to separate the source into its individual components, namely the most volatile to the least volatile, with the residual remaining at the end of the process.

A simple example of this process would be boiling a pot of water that also contains metal shavings. As the water evaporates it leaves the metal shavings inside the pot. This is an example of batch distillation which is ideal for seperating solvents such as acetone, MEK (methyl ethyl ketone), Toluene, and many other solvents from paints, inks, and resins.

Oregon Environmental Systems' solvent stills, namely the OES-20, OES-30, OES-60, and OES-200 are batch distillation systems and are completely compatible with our vacuum generators for utilizing the benefits of vacuum distillation.

 

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