Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging thermal‐driven separation process that offers a sustainable alternative for desalination and water treatment. By utilising hydrophobic, microporous membranes ...

A group of 20 Brazilian mechanical, chemical, and mechatronic engineers has created an innovative new system capable of simultaneously generating electricity and distilled water. The team of ...

Hackaday reader [Kyle] wrote in to share a project he recently wrapped up, involving a counter top water distillation unit he uses at home. He lives in Atlanta, and hates both the taste and ...

CORRECTION: This story was updated on Dec. 16, 2015, to correct the description of distillation and to clarify the separation difficulty posed by azeotropes. A new method for heating liquid mixtures ...

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. has developed a process for enhanced recovery of H 2 S from sour water of refinery hydrotreaters. The process Super Sour arrests the loss of H 2 S from feed the stabilization ...

New tech from MIT aims to clean the water used in fracking so much that you’d happily drink it, even though it was once filled with chemicals. With natural gas on the rise, that may be the only option ...

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If the Russians are to be believed, vodka is definitively Russian. After all, movies, advertisements, and even news articles all point to vodka as a distinctly Russian product. However, the truth ...

Though distilled water is free of impurities, it also lacks minerals, some of which are important for our body. This could have adverse effects if the water is consumed over prolonged durations. It is ...