lab report

Distillation
Objective:
The aim of this experiment is to study the efficiency between simple and fractional distillation column for acetone-water mixture. In general distillation are of four types namely simple, fractional, steam and vacuum distillation later two types are having important role in industrial distillation application which helps to distill the compounds in bulk quantity. For this experiment we will be using 50:50 mixture of acetone-water since acetone solubility in water is high leads to complete dissolution in water (polar property) forming azeotrope. Hence distillation plays a vital role in recovery of solvent during process, acetone is having boiling point of 56 C and water 100 C so acetone gets distilled out completely from water by maintaining the heat source below boiling point of water. The experiments are performed as below, reading noted and discussed in later sections.
Simple Distillation:
Procedure:
1. 30 ml of acetone-water mixture in the ratio of 50:50 i.e., 15 ml of acetone and 15 ml of distilled water are added in 50 mL round bottomed flask and instrument setup as shown in above figure finally thermometer is placed using cork support.
2. The heater is started and once temperature reaches 95C heating unit is set to stable for maintaining 95 C throughout process.
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