Extreme Solar Distillation
Solar Distillation Parts
7 March 2009
This is a my new project on Solar Water Distillation, I had seen many distillation projects out there that are not very efficient in creating pure distill water.
This project is to have a high target of distilling lot's of water in the shortest possible amount of time.
Idea is very simple, use a big lens to concentrate the sun light onto a small frying pan and drip rain water or drain water or any water onto the frying pan. The resulted steam will be sucked into a copper pipe above and it should go through a series of copper pipes to cool down and condense the steam into pure distilled water.
The setup is relatively simple...but I haven't got all the stuff yet...this is a video on the list of items that I had acquired over a period of 2 weeks.
7 March 2009 Night
PVC Stand
I had completed the base of the stand and the holder of the Fresnel Lens to be able to turn vertically and horizontally.
Fresnel Lens Holder
I currently faced the problem of mounting the holder to the base of the PVC stand...I need to get more L-Brackets to tie down to the stand and mount the holder down with screws.
The rest is still work in progress hence not updated here yet but soon it will be up! 
8 March 2009
Fresnel Lens Setup
After much waiting for the hardware shop to cut the L-Brackets and setting them up...I get my stable platform for my big Fresnel Lens!! YAY!
Fresnel Lens Broken
The photo above shows how to mount the Fresnel Lens onto the PVC stand stably without topping over easily, the Fresnel Lens got broken previously by my amaturish drilling haha.
10 March 2009
Today's update will be a basic setup of my copper pipes to condense the steam and a clearer explanation on how the steam may be sucked into the pipe
The Fresnel Lens is up and ready to use the sun as 'Death Ray' against anything in it's path and that includes instantaneously vaporizing water into steam!
The above video was taken just now after like 2 hours of pipe works and brainstorming on how to place the pipes.
I believe in improving the project as time passes so that I can solve any kinds of problems possible to achieve the result of getting distilled water faster than any other solar distillation projects.
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