DIY Water Distiller (Higher Output Version) - Full Build and Demonstration
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- čas přidán 30. 08. 2020
- Full construction walk-through and experiment to demonstrate the higher efficiency of this style of homemade water distiller. I can distill about 40 ounces per hour with this condenser design. Total cost was about $60.00 for materials.
Distilling water is a highly effective method for purifying the most dirty and contaminated water. It will also desalinate salt water and turn it into perfectly clean and safe drinking water.
This is the fitting I used in the lid of the pressure cooker:
Bulkhead Hose Barb 5/16"×3/8"
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I've been kicking around my mom's old pressure cooker in my garage for the last 25yrs thinking some day I'm going to have a use for this damn thing and low and behold up pops your vid! Thanks now I've got something to do tomorrow 👍👍👍
Fantastic! It really is a perfect use for an old pressure cooker.
Stick that pressure cooker inside a solar oven and it should work without fuel on sunny days. Good job with this vid. 👏
This gives people another option. And that's a good thing. The more options, the better.
I’ve built several of these for a completely different purpose. In HVAC when recovering refrigerant it makes the recovery cylinder very hot with pressures exceeding 500 PSIG. This takes forever on a hot day and will make the machine shut off constantly. So I rolled about 30’ of copper into a cooling bucket and connected it between the machine and recovery tank. Ice is a good start but it melts super quick, running water is a must. Absolutely the more coiled copper I use the better it works. I never thought about doing that to distill water but I’ll be doing it now. I’ve already got a 20’ inner coil and a 25’ outer coil. I will be surprised if any steam makes it out but we’ll see. Dope video, thanks.
have you ever tried dry ice? i used it for solvent recovery in a different industry, and it slurps it out quick.
If you let your boiling container run dry through the process, you can use distilled vinegar (which is a mild acid) to soak in the container to loosen and easily remove the sludge that builds up. If you use a stainless steel container, vinegar is the way to go, and by the way, if you use stainless steel cookware that gets caked up with the food you cooked in it, vinegar will help make that clean up easier too, just let it soak in vinegar for awhile then the guck should be easy to remove.
Hey Jerry, thanks for the advice! I have bought a few stainless steel cookwares, and plan to get more in the future! My family always used aluminium cookware, and I'm slowly weaning out all the aluminium cookware in the house.
Barkeeper's Friend is less than $2 a can and works even better.
You can also steam vinegar through the copper, which I've heard is corrosive(?)
You don’t need a pressure cooker in a pinch. As he said, he’s not worried about the seal because the pressure won’t be that high. Drill a hole in the lid for any big pot you have, attach a hose connection, and just putting a brick on the lid will suffice.
Good design. I would suggest a bulkhead fitting between the worm (moonshine term) coil. This seals the bucket of cooling water. You could then use a basin of cool water to be circulated by a fountain pump. This should add process time for your ice packs placed in a basin rather than the coil bucket. The same way a lot of moonshiners tried to place their stills near a water source.
Good idea brother
Great video and DIY! One word of warning - distilled water leaches copper. It would be a safer idea to use 316L Stainless Steel Food-Grade tubing for your condenser. It will raise the price, but it is a safer solution.
thanks! Conversely, how much potential Chromium/Nickel/etc. might leach into the distilled water?
@@stevoblevo probably much less, because the alloy as a whole rusts/oxidises less than copper (if high grade S.S is used). Side note, avoid aluminium pots and tubing too.
gold plated problem solved
We need copper anyways most people are defiecent right? Id rather have extra copper than 50 random people prescription drugs including birth control woman pee out not to mention flouride chlorine the list goes on and on. Dont stand directly over the distillation and breath the fumes in thet have phalates from what I've read
Anyone know how much? Im trying to distill well water for cannabis plants, very high iron content but potable for people. Dont wanna trade one metal toxicity for another
This is one of the best one I seen on making clean drinking water
A very intelligent man to learn from. Highly recommended to watch!
Awesome project. I live 1 mile from the ocean and I will build this ASAP...unlimited water supply in the Pacific!
And sea salt for seasoning
I love this idea! I would absolutely stop the leak from the coil bucket to HOLD that cold water but this is great thanks much
Great setup, that condenser was simple and beautiful at the same time!
An excellent video to watch. Well done! This gives you a clear picture on how to create your own effective distiller from nothing practically. No need to buy expensive fancy ones out there that are not as efficient as this. Better to make your own for sure! He gives a very practical and scientific approach to creating one of the most efficient distillers I've ever seen. I have wasted money buying a couple and they are not even close to as efficient as this one. I'm going to use the parts I have and modify them to achieve these kinds of results. Highly recommend it to watch this!
Thanks friend, I appreciate your comment!
If you go watch some videos on still setups you will see its very similar. If you set this up near a water source you can run cool water over your condensers to get a much higher yield. You can also make good use of those little pumps that you can mount in your drill if you set them up to be run by a small water wheel if you have flowing a flowing water source like a little creek. They are also somewhat noiseless.
Hey, thanks for this vid. I was just checking to make sure I understand the condenser from memory (from cub scouts back in the 1980s) and I do. Thanks for this cut to the point presentation!
Thanks Ryan, glad it helped
this is a good demo on why you need the cooling chamber. if you were in the wild you could set that coil in a stream sideways. you can also use your canning pot with an inverted glass lid and a bowl floating in the water to catch the drip. keep ice in the lid. that was the first vid I saw but I used to wrong lid and I failed spectacularly! The canning pot lid didnt fit tight upsde down. I steamed my stove top!!
I wish I could thumbs up this a billion times! Thank you!😘
Your a genius!!!! Thank you for such an awesome video.
Thanks a lot. I will build this when it warms up. I need distilled water for my kratksky hydroponic system and for drinking too
This was smart. Thanks for the video,
This may have already been addressed here, but you dont want to put dissimilar metals in direct contact with each other. Retired mechanic looking to build a water distiller, and I always look to see what CZcamsrs are doing.. this is a sweet arrangement other than the connection. Additionally, use a rubber pushthrough bulkhead seal for output of condenser and use bucket of water as to make full contact with tubing. The only upgrade to this would be tapwater running into the bucket continuously to dilute thermal storage of water in bucket. Hope this info is helpful to someone.
Hi just so I'm clear, instead of the metal piece that was used underneath, he should've used copper for both?
Btw thank you for your input...every little bit counts.
@@nikkilav824 ALL copper structure is fine, as long as you isolate the copper and support metal, you're fine. I have yet to build mine, but this guys arrangement is pretty sweet. In my state, Sams just raised the price of water cooler jugs for drinking to $1 a gallon. I believe I can distill water for about 27¢
per gallon.. And no more wrestling 5 gallon jugs up my stairs.
Also.. Your reference to underneath? I am talking about anywhere copper comes into direct contact with any non copper material. Silicon interface between condenser and boiler, and support for condenser in bucket. Hope this was what you were asking.
SO GLAD YOU ADDED SALT TO YOUR DEMONSTRATION ! I read that if you are trying to reduce sodium from processed foods it's difficult. ❤
The problem with the water draining from the bottom, is it's going to drain the coldest water. The hottest water will be at the top, so it reduces efficiency quite a bit. I had a pump feeding through mine, one fitting at the top and another at the bottom. I first ran the cold water into the top and used the bottom as the discharge, so it would siphon the water out as I'm pumping it in to keep circulation going. I've since switched it, cold fed into the bottom, and just let gravity drain the top discharge. Works much better. As the VERY top is all that really gets hot. And I mean just an eighth or quarter inch. The rest of the water stays ice cold. You can stick your hand in, and the very top will be scalding, but the rest is cold. I just run tap water now, instead of having a pump and a big 25 gallon reservoir.
Well, did it work okay 'errr?
Brilliant 👌🏾 ❤
Very well explained!!
I'm trying to get away from using things that take electricity to make, like frozen cooling packs or ice, to make "emergency" items. So seeing that adding "water" to the condenser bucket really helps, is great information.
Thanks Jen, I'm glad it was helpful
@jen: Exactly. No electricity. No daily sun for solar power = sooner or later no cold or frozen anything. Re-use the condenser cooling water. What happens if there's an interruption in the water supply? Folks will have to use and re-use what they have on hand and not let it go on down the drain. I agree that this video has great info too. :)
Great video love the design 👍
Hey brother nice to see someone near the great lakes. Northern MI here. Great video and idea. I think i will make one of these with some mods to it. Thanks for the idea
Great demo!
Great idea - thanks for sharing.
To improve it even more, fill the cooling bucket completely with cold water and keep it filled.
Your hose was still bubbling, so you lost some steam to insufficient cooling.
Remember: you don't get drinking water, you get destilled water from you device - our body runs on water with 0.3% salt (isotonic solution), anything less or more will dehydrate you. Saltwater from the oceans contains 3-4% salts, so roughly 10 times the amount needed and it's as harmful as destilled water is. To get drinkable water, add 0.3% salt to it. If you get stranded on an arid island, you can add 1 part of fresh seawater to 10parts of destilled water to make a drinkable solution. It doesn't taste great though, due to the content of sulfates in the ocean.
so you are saying we can't drink distilled water? Do you have any scientific evidence?
@@doctorkhan2255 -Ask any doctor - basic medicinal knowledge. I suggest, you look up "osmosis effect" too
@@mannihh5274 You can drink Distilled water. That is just silly. Yeah its not super good for you but its not harmful to the degree youre expressing at all.
@@equilibriahealth1727 ... I would agree with that, because you're not just drinking distilled water, you're also eating food, juices & condiments/seasonings (salt, pepper, soysauce, vinegar, etc) along with it, i.e. the bigger picture, if you didn't have any other kind of drinking water around.
You are all correct! When i am fasting, you will start twitching about day 3 if you don't have at least salt. I have a bottle of water with my minerals when fasting. When not fasting, your food takes care of the salt and other minerals.
This is brilliant. Well done.
Good video. Well presented and to the point.
I recommend P&G Purifier of Water Portable Water Packs if faced with the scummiest water. It's utterly amazing !
Salt makes water colder, .maybe salt water in your worm (copper coil bucket ) could be helpful?
Off to finish the vid..
Remember to get calcium and magnesium from other sources as distilling removes those.
I'm going to make one immediately.
Great job!
Thanks for sharing 👍🏾
I need distilled water for my cpap machine, in the uk you have to buy distilled water over the Internet and its not cheap, so i have been using just boiled water. I really want my own distiller so this video is a great help, many thanks
Wow, you have to buy it over the internet?? That seems so crazy. Every grocery store here sells it for about 99 cents a gallon. It's actually probably cheaper for me to buy it than make it, considering fuel usage. Anyhow yea, it sounds like you need to make a distiller!
That’s a nice set up I like it👍 I was thinking that an induction stove top hooked to an inverter, battery and solar panel...free power from the sun 😉
I think if i were to attempt this design, I'd add a tap to the bottom of the bucket so I could choose when to drain rather than having it leak out. I think the warm water created by cooling the coil would be a good candidate for adding to the boiler. Idk if that's how thermals work, but i would imagine heating warm water takes less time and energy than heating cold water from a lake or something. If that's the case, it'd be worth collecting that water.
I'd also be the mad lad to try and automate this process since the steam could be used to power a pump or something. It would be a steam engine that farts out pure drinking water and fills huge reservoirs of drinking water.
I love the design, as it opens up a few thoughts for me. I am contemplating the possibility of using solar excess (once batteries are full) to run an element to heat water (maybe 500, or 800 w). My concerns are, how much can one distill this way. Ice bricks are not an option if I want, say, 1000 litres per day. Thanks for the video!
Thank you so much!
I like your video I'm going to add a few of my own tips like twice or three times the copper coil and I will not use any rubber hoses which can leach chemicals into my water I will use the copper straight from the pan straight to my cup but this is all hindsight thanks for the good idea
Thanks Erick. I'll mention that I did not use any rubber hoses in this build. The flexible hoses are high-temperature, food-grade silicone.
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Well done !
Great video bud. Thanks. 😎👍🇨🇦
Thank you.
Excellent video
This is why I love CZcams.....we are all geniuses in our own way and sharing it for others. Now I am off to crush reclaimed clay bricks to add as a layer in my soil to retain water in Northern Mexico....if it works I will share.
This is a terrific idea. I use distilled water in my CPAP device and sometimes you have a difficult time finding it. Sadly I can NOT use any other type of water in it. This is another great video from you that I am going to share. Great information, Thank You very much. Peace To All!
Thanks Scott. Yes! It's one of the things that made me want to build one. I can't even find the stuff at my grocery store anymore.
@@akosreke8963 Which chemicals?
Copper pipes and tubes are perhaps the most common material for hot water lines over the last several decades. Copper is used for all sorts of beer and wine-making purposes. Why would this small-scale application pose a risk, while all the water lines in my house are perfectly fine?
@@akosreke8963 Thanks Akos. I'm inclined to do some more research on the subject, either way.
I have used tap water in my CPAP for 50 years and just let the chlorine evaporate for a day. Then once a week I soak my tank in vinegar and water and rinse it out. Easy and no equipment cost, vinegar is almost free.
Thanks for the nice vidio explaination- that really is all that is needed- i bought a 80.00$ still water distiller off amizon- from seeing your vidio-i can see i will need to add a much bigger condencer / thanks again / my other little plastic water distiller for about 75 $ burned up in just about a year. Probbley more efficient on power-but your preasure cooker design clears my mind- distilled water out of my RO machine comes out pure clear- your water in that design probley still had some impuritys THOUGH. probley a bigger condencer and dial the heat down just a little would be nice and clear.GREAT DESIGN IDEA.
If you let the distiller shut off by itself they will burn out, I lost two of them, now I set mine on timers and have one about 6 years now that is still running great. I also put 1 teaspoon of Citric Acid in the water that I am going to boil, on the 2nd boil I do not add it, on the 3rd boil if the 1/2" water at the bottom is clean then I do another boil. I don't clean or empty the water between boils unless I need too.
A very well thought out plan. Have no doubt you will perfect it in time. Maybe the bucket acts more like an insulator which prevents the water from Cooling quickly. Would suggest more space between the coils perhaps and a fan blowing on the coils to help with the cooling process.???? Maybe a larger diameter tubing like 3/8 inch.
What are your thoughts?
Heat exchangers are all about surface area and turbulence. All of the steam/water NOT scraping along the sides of the copper pipe is just going for a ride. Longer, thinner copper tubing would increase surface (cooling) area. If he's not getting the cooling rates he wants, running two concentric coils of 1/4" would improve things. Also, water on the outside of the coils is always going to work better than air. Think of it this way: if you went outside during a 50 degree day, it might feel a little cool but once you started working you'd warm up. If you went for a swim in a 50 degree lake, you'd be dead in an hour.
nice experiment.
this method is solid. I would use my rocket stove as the heat source as it is extremely efficient. I always have a fire going and this is WAY cheaper than buying filters for those fancy filtering system.
While the design is a bit impractical for this use, the channel Jairus of All has an excellent rocket mass heater build series where he goes into great detail on how he configured his and the reasoning behind it. I recommend his channel, his research skills are impeccable. What you learn on Jairus's channel can contribute to your other projects like it has mine.
you could place water in the basin next to the condensor and rig up a steam powered water pump(before the steam reaches the condensor) to pump cold water from the adjacent basin(full of water) over the condensor to keep it cool.
Nice. And yes it is.. really.. flat. 👍🏽👍🏽
more copper tubing means more surface area for heat to be stored which also leads to more water needed to cool the coil. maybe use thinner pipe or even go as far as to make a smaller coil but I get the bucket concept so a thinner gauge pipe should cool more efficiently when submerged in the bucket
Well done bro. Quality video
Wish you Fortune in the wars to come
Boiling isn't necessary and probably detracts from the process. Just enough heat to cause the water to evaporate and rise at a good rate. Although slower It will be much kinder to your chiller. GREAT BUILD
I liked this video good stuff.
Great video!
Thanks!
Nice still ,God makes wine. We make shine 🤩🤩🤩 good video
Wow. Just. Wow
This a good demonstration of water distillation. There are a couple things to consider. First, some people have reactions to copper and even develop copper toxicity. Now once scale forms in a new coil this will be less and less of a copper transfer into the water. Second, If you are going to be distilling surface water from questionable water sources, one may be concerned with VOCs, volatile organic compounds. Most commercially available distillers are closed loop systems like what you built and remedy VOCs via activated carbon post filters. Some commercially available emergency or non-electric distillers are open loop, meaning VOCs boil off at a lower temperature and vent into the atmosphere. There is water lost in an open loop, but the water quality is better. The best water distillation possible is fractional distillation, but nobody has $3000+ for a complicated machine with very low output. :-)
Scale isn't going to form from water vapor in a still...kinda the point, to get rid of all the solids that form scale. And stainless is always an option.
@@salvadordollyparton666 Oh yes it will. A pressurized system will definitely transfer some unwanted product with it and copper it self will anneal due to temperature and harden from contact with oxygen, so the end result will coat the copper tubes pretty well. 😉
Love it
Couldn't you just wait to put the lid on until after the water reaches boiling point? Would this not get rid of VOCs?
Guess after distilling you could pour it thru a zero water pitcher filter?
If you had ice cubes and kept the condenser bucket filled with ice I feel like would be effective as well. Or maybe making a very large ice chunk and keeping it on top of the coils and it would melt and cool the copper down as it heats up.
I run a coil like this to make moonshine on my still and ice melts super rapidly. If I had to make a guess that 3 gallon bucket full of ice packed around that coil would be warm water in 20 minutes
a tip to make the bucket cooler would be puting a lid with a whole for the pipe and put over the bucket. and maybe add some real ice aswell
Thanks
good job bro
Have you thought of using a frenel lense/parabolic mirror to use as a heating source?
Cheers!
If I was still teaching school, I would teach my students how to do this. I was going to do a unit on survival and combine science with the other basix skills etc.
Wonder how much copper tubing you would need to not need water to cool it.... I'll have to experiment! Great vid!
Makes great moonshine too
That clean water your saying my friend still looks cloudy. Oil can stick to the steam as well.
I’m going to try and make my own design with a tea kettle.
I use distilled water in the coffee maker and the tea kettle, no gunk to plug the machine.
Awesome info, just subscribed.
Thanks!
Great idea! I haven’t read through all the comments yet; but I was wondering if you left on the mason jar top and drilled a hole to accommodate the silicone tubing if that would help trap all the lost steam coming from mason jar and add to volume of produced distilled water?
It's possible, but I think if the hole/hose fitting was snug enough to not let the steam escape, it would become pressurized very quickly, and probably explode hot water all over the place!
If you seal both ends you will start to create pressure which could cause a problem in the Mason jar or the cooker...... likely not the cooker, but the Mason jar could explode if you're pushing too much steam/preasure through it. As long as the water around the condenser is not boiling it will cool the steam to produce pure water
Moonshine stills were often setup near creeks to make use of cool water.
Citric acid in powder form is a pretty good distiller cleaner- works awesome for faucet taps & shower heads
I just mix some in a spray bottle and spray it on.
vinegar is the best
If it is PURE copper, you are disinfecting your water at the same time. Copper, as is silver, is a great water purifier. Pure copper water jugs are very expensive, because they are so healthy! ⚱️
Also, if you made the drain hole the size of the plastic tubing, you could save water AND disconnect the tube from the bucket easily. 😁👍🏻
Even though you did this in a kitchen, you were able to show how it's done. Obviously things are different in a camping/survival situation lol But that's where other knowledge and enginuity come in!
For sure! I may have to make a follow-up video where I set it up in the woods.
nice coil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You should seal the endpoint into another large metal pot. The coil can also start in the pressure cooker.
Enjoyed your wonderful demo.
Suggestion => instead of going to a "jar", buy another "pressure cooker" (exact setup of first), and direct the water to it directly (and let the pressure cooker collect water & vapor (100%). I think you will not lose any moisture/steam (and will not have to keep pouring water in the bucket (once it fills and stays full).
Good idea. Anyone try this?
if u make it a closed system u are just making a pressure bomb
@@marianocenteno4603 Drill an extra hole for a release valve. You might lose a bit of steam, but it prevents the big bang.
@@marianocenteno4603 I saw a video of someone using a 2-3 foot piece of bamboo into a food grade plastic bag that was held to the bamboo with rubber bands. Nearly 0 vapor loss. The bag did inflate, but didn't pop, and didn't seem to have steam venting much from the rubber bands.
Solid work. Distilled water is definitely what the body needs for maximum optimization. 🤙
That's a great idea.
I was wondering if this removes hexofluorisis acid or fluoride.
It says the boiling point of it is °227.3F so it's just a little above the boiling point of water.
So I guess you'd have to have a thermometer in the boiling water and try to keep it below that while the water level is going down.
You'd. Probably have to keep lowering the temperature as the water level goes down.
Use fractional distillation to remove specific unwanted substances. Do a search ...
Even if you used a fan to cool the coil it might work? That is how it works in the distiller.
Beautiful Execution of Survivor Craftsmanship See you in the Plague
I love this idea but wonder would the silicone tubing leach plastic chemicals into the water since if I understand correctly steam would be passing through it from the boiling pot.
This is high-temp, food-grade silicone tubing that's made for this sort of thing. I have no concerns about leaching chemicals. The same is probably not true for basic plastic tubing.
This is definitely a moonshiner
If you make the copper condenser coil 3-5 times taller or several layers of coils, turn the heat down under the pan after it comes to a boil and don't put the coil inside anything so the air can pass through the coils it should work without needing anything to cool the coil down. The harder the pan is boiling the higher the steam pressure and flow and the longer the condenser coil needs to be. The copper coil will be hot all the way to the end but by the time the steam gets to the end of the coil it is cool enough to condense back into water. If you don't care about running power you can set a fan up so it blows up through the coil and turn the heat up on the pan.
Do you have a parts list especially the component that goes into the pressure cooker and the gasket. Thanks!!!
Could use a water tester next time to test how clean it is also like add that I was surprised you didn't drink it. Lol Thanks for the video
I am learning that it needs to be a multi level approach. Physical filter then chemical then this
I love this design and look forward to making one. Can you tell me how long the copper tubing is?
Thanks Jillian. I used the whole 20 foot coil of 3/8" tubing for this.
As one who has distilled my drinking water for 20+ years, you have no idea what is coming from your tap and pictures do not convey the smell to what is left behind.
Even bottled water is filled with poison.
yaboyGOODVIBES Factually incorrect but ok
@@matthewjohnson9746 Fluoride is essentially poison doesn't kill you instantly but overtime shortens your life span and is linked to Alzheimer's, also plastic releases estrogenic chemicals. Fluoride filtering water and storing it in not plastic containers is the only way to drink water free from toxins.
@@yaboygoodvibes1397 distilled water leaves all the fluoride behind. You get pure H20. It will taste a bit 'flat' because all the minerals are removed as well, however, they sell liquid minerals you can add to your water.
@@watchingvideos2235 yep
Good one friend thank you.
I wonder if fractional distillation would give a higher yield. Granted way more complex. Nice setup!
distilled water is so important even for vehicle batteries if your low on acid.
Heat rises.your drain is draining the coolist water.condenser usually fill from the lowest point and drain from the highest.
I did the same thing and got fantastic results, however the distilled water is coming out cloudy. I read somewhere that that's because there is a lot of micro bubbles in the water so will it turn clear with time?
That's certainly possible. That was is just shy of boiling when it condenses and falls out into your jar. If it's not clear within a few minutes, I'm not sure why.
I never even thought about distilled water until I got a CPAP machine. 😃
I personally want to distill water, just to see what sort of Contaminants are inside our Tap water.
Do it. You socks will be blown off by the amount of crud in each gallon. And when you think, "I drink half a gallon daily," you will become disgusted, alarmed then angry. But do not stay angry. Our ancestors drank from rivers, ponds and puddles. Those with weak immune systems died off. And yet, we are here.
A lot of white stuff