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   Tommy to Henry Spencer   
   Re: Zero-G Still   
   24 Nov 04 22:21:16   
   
   From: tlsnodgr@mchsi.com   
      
   Why would you need to heat them, just lower the pressure to the vapor   
   point and then compress them back to a liquid after seperation.   
      
   Henry Spencer wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Cameron Dorrough  wrote:   
   >   
   >>If the fluid was at least partly volatile (eg. alcohol.. ;-) you could   
   >>circulate it through a cross-flow heat exchanger to heat it up past boiling   
   >>point.   
   >   
   >   
   > One problem that arises is that some of the fluids you'd like to distill,   
   > e.g. urine, don't take well to serious heating -- they tend to leave   
   > deposits behind.   
      
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