Early evidence of distillation was found on Akkadian tablets dated c. 1200 BCE describing perfumery operations. The tablets provided textual evidence that an early primitive form of distillation was known to the See more

The boiling point of a liquid is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of the liquid equals the pressure around the liquid, enabling bubbles to form without being crushed. A special case is the normal boiling point, where the vapor pressure of the … See more

Interactions between the components of the solution create properties unique to the solution, as most processes entail non-ideal mixtures, where See more

Beverages
Carbohydrate-containing plant materials are allowed to ferment, producing a dilute solution of ethanol in the process. Spirits such as See more

The application of distillation can roughly be divided into four groups: laboratory scale, industrial distillation, distillation of herbs for perfumery and medicinals (herbal distillate), and food processing. The latter two are distinctively different from the former two in that … See more

Laboratory scale distillations are almost exclusively run as batch distillations. The device used in distillation, sometimes referred to as a See more

Large scale industrial distillation applications include both batch and continuous fractional, vacuum, azeotropic, extractive, and … See more