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My understanding is that it's all about efficiency. The impurities I don't think is too much of a problem (think about distilled water, they make that with eva
by simcop2387 14y ago
My understanding is that it's all about efficiency. The impurities I don't think is too much of a problem (think about distilled water, they make that with evaporation), but filtering is much easier to scale. You can increase pressure, increase the number of filters, etc. to get it all to happen at a faster rate. combined with the fact that you don't lose any water from it and you can probably do very very well there.
- excuse-me 14y agoDepends what your impurities are. If you have a lot of other liquids mixed in (oil , organic solvents etc) then distillation can be easier - it also lets you separate them for disposal. Small scale pure 'distilled' water eg. for battery top-up, is typically made by ion-exchange resin - it's more effective than osmosis for removing very small amounts of inorganics and cheaper than actual distilling if you are starting with fresh water.